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Location: chicago | Has anyone ever witnessed or heard of a senerio like this? Has muskies been know to grab small mammals in 2 or 3 inches of water like muskrats, chipmunks or squirrels? Maybe the small mammals trying to get a drink of just bathing themselves. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Muskies and Pike are opportunistic feeders, and will eat about anything that moves. |
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| A Mille Lacs guide has told me he has seen sea gulls get snatched uo in 6 inches of water |
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| If I remember correctly, Jim Saric was filming at a tournament and got footage of a Muskie trying to take down a Canadian goose. I've never seen it, but I've heard the story more than once. Recently a guy I know caught a 50 inch fish and it spit up or crapped out Coot feathers. They were all over his boat supposedly. I've personally never seen a Muskie do anything like that, but did see a Bass clear the surface trying to snatch a Blackbird from a reed. He missed.  |
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Location: Twin Cities | Last weekend I watched a yearling loon get chased by a muskie for about 10 minutes. This loon kept flipping out "standing" on it's hind end in the water and flapping it's wings at the water beneath staring down VERY intently. Eventually it flew and left the area. Returned about 30 minutes later (we spent thirty minutes trying to figure out what the heck had been going on) and after about 5 minutes we started seeing the same scenario. We started to inch closer with the TM and one of the times it was "dancing" around, we saw the back of a huge muskie about 3 feet from the loon! We started casting like crazy with topwaters in that general direction but never got anything. The loon left after about 10 more minutes of acting funny/getting chased. Never saw it come back. My mind's been crunching on that for a whole week now, time to make some very complicated lures....starting with a duck decoy maybe? |
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| I once saw a tiger muskie eat a duckling. Ever notice how in the spring the ducks will have a brood of 12-15 ducklings. By late summer there are usually half that. I'm sure muskies contribute some. |
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| An old timer once asked me if I used mice when he heard I was a musky guy. I was a little confused so he explained that back in the day the common bait was a live white mouse with a rubber band around it to hold the hook. He said bait shops used to carry them. I guess if you run out of suckers...
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Location: Twin Cities | CommonSense Guy - 11/12/2007 9:17 AM
I once saw a tiger muskie eat a duckling. Ever notice how in the spring the ducks will have a brood of 12-15 ducklings. By late summer there are usually half that. I'm sure muskies contribute some.
- I once seen a Tiger eat a Zebra drinking outa 6 inches of water. No big deal happens all the time. |
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Location: Warrenville,IL | Mike Clifford of smalliehunters.com throws the Bettencort Rat once in a while on the Kankakee.
I'm thinking an esox would have no problem hitting something far bigger.
Hey...they hit a dangling foot every so often.
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| Tigers live on the continent of Asia... Zebras on the continent of Africa! So it probably doesn't happen as often as you think |
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | The Dogger - 11/12/2007 12:04 PM
CommonSense Guy - 11/12/2007 9:17 AM
I once saw a tiger muskie eat a duckling. Ever notice how in the spring the ducks will have a brood of 12-15 ducklings. By late summer there are usually half that. I'm sure muskies contribute some.
- I once seen a Tiger eat a Zebra drinking outa 6 inches of water. No big deal happens all the time.
hahahaha
too funny
yet too true |
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Location: Wausau | On Vermillion two summers ago we say a lone seagull floating away from the main pack. The water exploded and the seagull was gone. Two-three seconds later a super wide open mouth stuffed with white feathers breaks the surface like Jaws - head shaking and thrashing for a few more seconds. Then gone, never to be seen again and leaving only a few white feathers on the water. Made our Pacemakers look like Spring Dawgs next to a few Pounders. |
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| Went to fish a spot on the Chip many years ago with Wayne Gooch. When we turned the corner, and eased up to the spot, we saw mallard hen feathers scattered about the surface. Wayne just said,"We're too late. That fish had breakfast already". With that, he motored on to our next spot. |
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| Water fowl and birds are not mammals. |
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| When I was pike fishing in Manitoba and some of the Indians had caught a squirrel and put a bunch of hooks in it...they floated it out on a little board with a string attached to it into the middle of a bay and then pulled the board out from under the squirrel. I thought they were nuts, but that night they were feeding their sled dogs a 40 pound northern pike which the told me they had caught on said squirrel...scared the crap out of me...  |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Surface lures painted Baby Duck, Loon, Muskrat, Red Squirrel, and Mouse patterns are not for the angler to look at but for mother musky to look at and devour! p.s. My grandpa used mice the same way the indians used the squirrel back in the 30's. I've heard baby ducks were boarded the same. True fish stories! |
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Location: Twin Cities | Touche'
Guess I'm not so funny, I need to update myself on the animal location maps. |
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