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Location: oswego, il | I thought I would share this on it's own thread sice it seems to be happening more than I would have ever thought. My partner and I pull up near where we want to fish first thing saturday morning and he gets a casting rod out and I start rigging the suckers. We are in shallow water so I just set the rod over the back with just the leader off the end of the rod back by the motor. I rig the next one and do the same. I did not even set them in rod holders or set the clickers yet because we were so shallow. Just as I set the 2nd sucker over the back, the first rod starts bouncing like mad! I tell my partner to grab it, fish in the net. 33 1/2"er. I rig that rod up set it over the side and go to grab a bobber and as I do the other rod starts bouncing! That one took the sucker off the rig before I grabbed it. Neither sucker could have been 2ft if that from the prop in 5ft of water and we were not on the water 15 minutes! That was the 3rd and 4th time something similar like this has happened to me in the past 3 years. |
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Location: Wausau | Twice. Motor up to the spot with pre-rig suckers, toss one out and before I could pull the other out of the live well - the first one is one the run. Both fish less than 5 feet from the boat w/the wake still rolling. |
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Location: Hoboken, NJ / North Webster, IN | I've got three...none amazing, but certainly entertaining.
1st one...had one of those crazy suckers...that is constantly charging the boat, swimming faster than the boat, etc... So we are out casting and for 3rd or 4th time this drift this little sucker is up under the boat and motor. I reel in to get rid of all the loops of slack that have built up. When I get in the slack, it feels pretty heavy....but it very well could be wrapped around the motor. Frustrated, and curious...and sick on this sucker....I haul on it setting the hook just in case. A couple minutes, and a couple times around the boat and I land my biggest at the time...47"
2nd one...Kind of similar to the guys above. Just pulled into a bay, maybe 6-10feet of water. Had the sucker rigged, had maybe 3/4 of the suckers body dangling in the water as I reach down to grab the bobber to slide it up the line to set it and WHAM!!! Pretty big fish takes a swipe at the sucker, which is 12" from my hand, misses and whacks his head on the motor and swims off. Scared the sh!t out of me.
3rd one...and best one....Fish all day, late fall. Haven't caught a thing, only seen maybe 2 fish. Just after dark, and my father and I decide to sit back, relax and slowly drag our suckers in from our deep edge about 200-300 yards back to our dock over he flats. We get no interest. It's my last night at the lake(a depressing thing for me) before I go back to NYC so I decide to leave one sucker out about 30 yards from our dock and feed it line so I'll have it out there when we get in. We get in the shore station, I put the rod in a chair on the dock, clean up the boat a little. After maybe 5 minutes I got grab the rod and start just popping the bobber and slowly bring it in. All of a sudden feels funny, good funny. I ask my dad to shine the flashlight out there....and there, about 5 feet back from my bobber moving left is a tail!!! There is not getting directly over this one, so I get her moving away, and haul. After short violent fight, I land the fish below(48") from my dock last november. To this day my biggest fish.
Josh
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | I had a buddy who was fishing Pelican some years ago. He had a sucker out and was casting a deep break. He sat down to change baits when his trolling motor made a "BANG” sound like he hit something. He looked up for a second and then went back to looking for bait in his tackle box when he heard the trolling motor make another "BANG" noise. He thought what the heck? Looked at his locator and he was is 18 feet of water? Stood up and walked over to take a look in the water, there was a 50-inch class fish staring at his trolling motor! The fish had whacked the trolling motor (not running) a couple times. He cranked in his sucker and dangled it right in front of the hog and she grabbed it and took of away from the boat. He pointed the rod tip at her waited for the rod to load up a bit and set the hook! All he got back was the quick strike harness! Bummer! |
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Location: Lincolnshire, IL | I know someone will jump on me about possible delayed mortality, stress, etc. but here it goes.....Buddy and I were fishing a small lake in WI on a cold fall day...first drift and the clicker goes...I pick up the rod and try to break it...POW! It sounded like a gun went off...I thought I did break my rod...after I gathered myself what actually happened was the 100 lb superline snapped(yes, I check it and re-tie). The float is zooming away and under the water...we try to catch up to it but can't, it is gone. We continue to fish for at least another 4 hours and if I remember correctly land a 40" Tiger. Well, nature calls and we motor to the other side of the lake to find the perfect spot. After that, we start back across the lake and notice the float from the broken line....I picked it up and there was still some line through it....I started to pull it in and it was of course tugging back....after a short fight, the 38" fish was landed with the quick strike rig in the corner of its' mouth. We removed the hooks and the fish swam away fine... |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | I knew a couple of crazy suckers back in the '70s. They weren't related, but you'd swear they were twins when you looked at them. They were big too, 16" when still young. With them it was always something, skipping out of school, smoking cabbage, sneaking onto bars, drinking and swimming drunk. And talk about mean. I don't think there was a chub, shiner, or perch in the place that didn't end up with torn fins or bruised gills at one time or another. I even remember them kicking the crap out of three stupid chunky bass that thought they could stand up to them. These two really lived life on the break lines.
Nobody saw them much after graduation. I later heard one of them was killed on a gravel flat in a musky attack while trying to score some end of the year cabbage. The other was shivved and gutted at dusk in the wrong side of the lake on a tough walleye bar. The story is he tried to spawn with the wrong walleye's girlfriend. Had a death wish, I guess. Everybody knows walleyes don't go for that kinky stuff.
Kevin
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Location: Roscoe IL | I have 2 sucker stories that are worth posting.
Last year on Lake Pewaukee, my partner & I decided to move to a new spot. When we approached the new location I shut down the big motor and was crusing into the area at a good rate of speed. My partner pulled his sucker out of the rear livewell and dropped it in the water all rigged and ready. When the boat stopped the rig was still taking out line and the clicker was going off as well. I don't even have the trolling motor down yet & he has a fish on. I guess he dropped it in right on the fishes noze? Fast fish!
This was just last Wednesday & was the same guy's personal best muskie. We were fishing in terrible weather on the Wisconsin river. Wind blowing 40mph and snowing like crazy. We have been fishing in these conditions since Sunday and only moved 2 fish, one on a top raider & the other on a hawg wobbler. not one sniff on suckers up to this point on our vacation. With ice in the guides my partner is casting out a Suick and getting pissed because the wind is knocking the bait down before it gets to the weed edge. We moved in shallow since nothing seemed to be on the breaks. All of the sudden I hear "HOLY $&IT" it was a monster. I shut off the trolling motor and was wondering why the fish didn't pick up the sucker on that follow? He casted a few more times only to come up empty & I clicked the TM back on. All of the sudden off goes his clicker with a long quick run and it stops dead. He picked up the rod only to see and feel nothing but slack line. That happened fast! I said, "he must have dropped the sucker" & before I could get all of that out of my mouth, out of the water jumps a 48.5" FAT muskie. He has not set the hook and we both noticed the sucker was still attached the to rubberband with the muskie snapping at it. Reeling like a madman he catches up to the fish and set's the hook. The fish came completly out of the water again 2 more times before we got her close to the boat. Once the fish saw the net it went strait down to the bottom and sat there. My buddy realizes this will be the fish he's been chasing his entire life is in a panic and praying to me and the muskie gods not to lose this one. After another fight the fish came in and I netted it. We looked like the Blues Brothers dancing in the boat after that. A few quick photo's and away she went. Never have I been hugged so hard & couldn't be more pleased for my best freind. He's got the pictures & I'll ask him to email me one so all can see this big beautiful clear Wisconsin strain muskie! Barely any markings except near the tail. |
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Location: Davenport, IA | Most interesting one I had was when I hooked a fish on a sucker and faught it for 10-15 seconds and lost it. I started reeling the dead sucker in to see the fish was following it. Shows a fish's intelligence level. It attacked a little bait fish and was dragged around for awhile and comes back after it. |
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