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| I am new to the sport and am hoping to get a couple of questions answered. The first is, I have heard from several musky fisherman that once a fish has been hooked that it will go dormant for a period of time and they wont bite again during that period. Is this true?? It doesn't make much sense to me. A fish has to eat right? |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | I have heard about anglers getting a muskie and catching the same on the next day. I'll even bet that some on this board have even caught the same muskies hours apart. I'm sure it depends a lot on how it wa played. I'm guessing that if a fish gets off midway during a fight it will eat sooner that if fought and netted, handled, etc. as the recovery would seem to be longer.
I have heard of pike eating shortly after breaking off and eating another lure with the first bait in its lip.
so let here some of those stories fellas. |
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Location: The desert | I doubt that they have been caught hours apart, however I do not think that the dormancy period lasts very long. I think of it this way.....the fish has just had large sharp objects ripped through its face, and I dont think that they enjoy that a whole lot. Kind of like us getting our wisdom teeth pulled......some of us bounce back in no time, while some are down a week or more. Just my take on the whole situation.
Mike |
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Location: IN | I think it would have to do with the fight and the pressure that the fish recieve. I could easily see a fish being caught twice within hours on the pressured waters that I fish. I wouldn't be able to begin to estimate how many times a single fish is caught before it even reaches our legal size. I would assume that fish that are used to being caught and released recuperate and eat again much faster than fish that receive little or no pressure. There are a lot of environmental and physical factors but the answer is yes and no. I'm sure a fish that just received it's first hooks is going to lay low for a while. On the other hand for some fish it's just another day. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have caught the same fish twice in the same day. They have no clue what happened to them when caught anyway. The amount of time it takes for a fish to recover depends on the stress and factors contributing to that stress when caught. |
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| A friend of mine always likes to tell the story of 15 yrs. ago at LOW when they caught/hand landed/water released a fish on one side of an island. They fished all the way around the island, came back to the same area and caught the fish again. I think it all has to do with the way they are handled as well.
This same friend really preached hard at me about fish handling procedures when I was a newbie. So one time I caught a 42" tiger when he was nearby, so I handled, cut hooks and pictured it by raising it 2-3 inches out of the water horizontally and putting it back and releasing it. The next year I caught the same tiger, it was 43" and had the exact same spot patterns when I compared the photos. I'm sure there are lots of stories like that out there. |
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Location: Northern IL | All game fish spend MOST ALL of there lives in a dormant state so they don't have to be caught to play hard to get.
Remember this guidline/fact:
Once or twice a day on an average fishing day they may become active and move toward shallow water.
Jerry Borst
Spoonplugger/Instructor |
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| A fish was lost in the pmtt by opening the leader clip and was caught by another angler the next day. The lure was still in the fishes mouth from the previous battle-- |
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Location: oswego, il | I agree with what steve said, it's all about recovery time. Water temps and oxygen levels play a big part in that. I once caught a walleye in a river, then caught it again 30 minutes later on the same bait, right were I released it! Another time I caught alargemouth bass, the night before it broke my line. I knew this because, I got my pre-rigged worm back and she ate a pre-rigged worm! |
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| There is absolutely note set rule on this one. They will do just about anything. For example: I've foul hooked a 50.50" muskie and caught it on the next drift. There was a 2" gash in it's belly from the foul hooking. I had originally fought it the first time about half way back to the boat. On other occasions we've caught the same fish the next day or even 2 years later in the exact same spot. Then there are radio tracking studies that show on many occasions the first time a tracked muskie is caught it stays in the same general area and on the second time caught it heads for the other end of the lake or deep water and never returns to that area again. Go figure!
Jim Ott "MuskieOtter" [email protected] |
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| Had a freind catch a muskie on a Bobbie Bait, put a tag on it and released it One hour later he caught the same fish, in the same spot, on the same lure. The tag was the proof. |
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Location: Carney, Mi (in da UP eh!) | Sometimes I wonder if we give fish to much credit in the thought process, being they are animals like us all if they had a thought process wouldn't they be evolving? (wow this is way to deep) They eat when hungry,defacate when full, spawn when nature tells them other than that I don't imagine that they are doing much thinking????? Don't let PETA know they feel the pain of a hook ripping in their jaw...wasn't there studies done that concluded that they didn't have pain sensor nerve endings?...Randy
Edited by UPMuskyr 2/26/2006 6:38 PM
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