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d2bucktail

Posted 7/3/2014 5:01 PM (#719081)
Subject: How smart can they really be

Posts: 238

This a.m. I caught a bonus 32" pike while muskie fishing and used it to practice a self-portrait. (Obviously from the startled look on my face I need more practice.) I decided to keep the pike for a family fish fry so, in the name of science my boys and I did a little dissecting to reveal how incredibly tiny the esox brain really is. The attached pic shows me with the pike and an inset pic of the entire brain from this pike using a dime for comparison. I don't know about you, but it kind-of makes me feel pretty stupid for not being able to figure these things out most of the time. WOW!

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FAT-SKI

Posted 7/3/2014 5:15 PM (#719085 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: RE: How smart can they really be

Posts: 1360

Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished

not nearly as smart as we give them credit for

ToddM

Posted 7/3/2014 5:20 PM (#719087 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 20219

Location: oswego, il

For having such a small brain I bet slamr has never pulled one of their posts.........

jimjimjim

Posted 7/3/2014 5:34 PM (#719093 - in reply to #719087)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 365

a 50"ers brain is about the size of a quarter

jonnysled

Posted 7/3/2014 5:37 PM (#719095 - in reply to #719093)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 13688

Location: minocqua, wi.

put that on a hook and i bet you catch another one …

esoxaddict

Posted 7/3/2014 6:20 PM (#719101 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 8782

They're pretty dumb. Anything that's going to eat a lure that looks, sounds, and moves NOTHING like it's normal food source can't be all that smart.

That doesn't say much for us out there trying (and often failing) to catch the #*^@ things.

jimjimjim

Posted 7/3/2014 8:09 PM (#719121 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: RE: How smart can they really be

Posts: 365

Doug Johnson says -- "if it moves, its food"

jonnysled

Posted 7/3/2014 8:51 PM (#719127 - in reply to #719121)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 13688

Location: minocqua, wi.

Hyena Musky ...

muskyrat

Posted 7/3/2014 9:29 PM (#719133 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 455

Looks bigger than my bosses brain.

Top H2O

Posted 7/3/2014 10:19 PM (#719142 - in reply to #719133)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 4080

Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion

muskyrat - 7/3/2014 9:29 PM

Looks bigger than my bosses brain.

Or some of these " Younger Engineers" that I gota Deal with these days....Sheesh !
I think most of them just PARTIED thru collage on their Parents Money.... Dumber than a Box of Rocks and NO common sense.....

Rotag

Posted 7/4/2014 10:31 AM (#719176 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Location: SE Wisconsin

Looks like good zombie musky bait

Jimmy_S

Posted 7/6/2014 8:25 PM (#719430 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 34

Keep all the hammerhandles you want, but release the bigger fish over 30" please! There are probably more 50" muskies than there are 40" pike, because all the pike get eaten once they hit 28 or 30 inches. I wish the same C&R ethic was applied to northerns as it is to muskie. A big pike is just as worthy of a fish as a muskie is.

jimjimjim

Posted 7/6/2014 9:18 PM (#719441 - in reply to #719430)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 365

---- the engineers went to college ----

muskie! nut

Posted 7/7/2014 7:45 AM (#719461 - in reply to #719081)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 2894

Location: Yahara River Chain

And PETA would led you to believe that not only does that brain able to function that fish, but also have the mass to also process pain...........

MartinTD

Posted 7/7/2014 9:18 AM (#719472 - in reply to #719133)
Subject: Re: How smart can they really be

Posts: 1141

Location: NorthCentral WI

muskyrat - 7/3/2014 9:29 PM

Looks bigger than my bosses brain.

Like.

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