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| While chatting with a stranger on the dock last week, he gave me lots of opinions and fishing reports. He is lucky to stay at his place up here all summer long before he heads down to warmer climes. One story that he told me I have to repeat.
It seems that while he was bass fishing in previous weeks, he was lucky enough to hook a couple of muskies on minnow lures and landed them both. One was 44" and one was 47". Both fish were landed and released without much incident. He told me that the 47" had a bunch of scrapes and marks on it all over it's back, but that the 44" was beautiful and didn't have a mark on it because the loons haven't attacked it yet. Seems the 47"er was the victim of numerous loon attacks, and that's what the marks were from. The 44"er has been luck so far and has avoided and "dive-bys" by the local loon population.
I thought maybe I should mention the rigors of spawning, but decided not to. I told him that if he thought the loon attacks were bad, that he should see the scars produced by heron ambushes.
That's why you never catch muskies when loons are around. We just thought that they were diving for a meal, it turns out that they are out to attack the biggest fish in the sea. |
