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| Tiger222 - 1/12/2018 4:56 AM
I'm all for keeping every female pike I catch in muskie waters.
I am a guy who enjoys catching both. No matter the size, usually. So this type of thing bothers me a little bit.
Keeping them just to get them out of the water so they cannot reproduce is no different in my eyes than a walleye guy clubbing a legal muskie when he catches it so it does not "eat any more of his walleyes"
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| I love pike fishing during the closed season. Have caught lots over 40", and they're a blast.
Once musky opens, there's no comparison for me though.
The difficulty to find them and then get them to strike is what keeps me going.
Then again, I only get 6 months to fish them up here in Canada, so I am forced to entertain myself with everything from pike, walleye, and crappie until I can bust out the big sticks again..... |
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Location: WI | Junkman: Spot on, like always. 
Sidejack: Smallies provide some of the most fun you can have in a boat. It's kinda like muskie fishing but with smaller tackle. Until muskie season opens I'm throwing bass lures at every rock in the river. |
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Location: Illinois | I only do “fun” fishing. That is what I call my time pursuing Muskie,pike,and bass. I usually spend about 1-3 days a year panfishing with children etc for a few fillets. The other 99.9% of the time is for the game fish and if I could it would be 90% muskie only. |
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Location: Phoenixville, PA | If we're talking esox, let us not forget the meanest one of them all, the mighty chain pickerel. He is the little, toothy monster of the east coast. Pound for pound there is no mightier esox. On light line they are a lot of fun, all day long. More than once, I have set the hook muskie fishing only to discover that the 'massive' strike was from a 22 inch pickerel, who just left serious tooth marks.
I love fishing for muskies, but I enjoy fishing for anything. I have hooked them all from bullheads to bull sharks and it's all fun. |
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Location: oswego, il | fishdawg - 1/16/2018 5:35 AM
If we're talking esox, let us not forget the meanest one of them all, the mighty chain pickerel. He is the little, toothy monster of the east coast. Pound for pound there is no mightier esox. On light line they are a lot of fun, all day long. More than once, I have set the hook muskie fishing only to discover that the 'massive' strike was from a 22 inch pickerel, who just left serious tooth marks.
I love fishing for muskies, but I enjoy fishing for anything. I have hooked them all from bullheads to bull sharks and it's all fun.
True, a 22" pickerel is you're 50" muskie! www.pickerelfirst.com? |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | I fish bass and crappie when the water gets too warm to musky fish. It is not what I prefer, but I adapt because I have to.
Edited by RyanJoz 1/16/2018 7:52 AM
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| Chain pickerel are awesome flyfishing quarry, and very entertaining on light tackle. I was lucky enough to fish Guest Millpond this past fall site of the world record chain pickerel and was very excited about the opportunity. |
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