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Muskie101
Posted 5/26/2024 11:14 AM (#1028651)
Subject: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 150


Location: Rochester, New York
I was hoping to see if anyone could provide me with some sources of confirmed tiger muskies and northern pike attacking swimmers in the united states excluding Alaska i have noticed most of the muskie with the exception of a few are in Canada attacks and all of the pike attacks i have seen are Alaska Canada or Europe. I cant find any confirmed attacks by tiger muskies.
chuckski
Posted 5/26/2024 7:49 PM (#1028656 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 1242


How would you get the number of the truck (fish) that hit you!
gimruis
Posted 5/28/2024 9:20 AM (#1028683 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 122


I can recall a couple here in MN over the years. They are obviously very rare and the culprit was assumed to be a pure strain muskie.

There is an episode of River Monsters where Jeremy Wade investigates multiple attacks of pure strain muskies on people at Eagle Lake, Ontario. Its obviously fabricated and exaggerated for TV but he spends half the episode trying to catch one for over a week. It physically and mentally exhausts him to the point where he actually gives up, ties on a small jig for lake trout, and then piles into nearly a 50 incher by accident. Only when he stops fishing for them does he catch one. Pretty good episode actually.
kdawg
Posted 5/28/2024 9:30 AM (#1028684 - in reply to #1028683)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




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gimruis - 5/28/2024 9:20 AM

I can recall a couple here in MN over the years. They are obviously very rare and the culprit was assumed to be a pure strain muskie.

There is an episode of River Monsters where Jeremy Wade investigates multiple attacks of pure strain muskies on people at Eagle Lake, Ontario. Its obviously fabricated and exaggerated for TV but he spends half the episode trying to catch one for over a week. It physically and mentally exhausts him to the point where he actually gives up, ties on a small jig for lake trout, and then piles into nearly a 50 incher by accident. Only when he stops fishing for them does he catch one. Pretty good episode actually.
The episode is titled "Canadian Horror". Kdawg
mikie
Posted 5/28/2024 9:59 AM (#1028685 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans





Location: Athens, Ohio
Does the movie "Blood Hook" count? m
Larry Ramsell
Posted 5/28/2024 12:08 PM (#1028688 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 1285


Location: Hayward, Wisconsin
I have in my files (and some in my book) several instances where pure muskies have bitten people, but I cannot recall any that were by Tiger muskies, likewise for northern pike (probably some in Europe, but know of none in North America.
mikie
Posted 5/28/2024 12:13 PM (#1028690 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans





Location: Athens, Ohio
I'd think such instances would be reported to local game officials; suggest checking with state DNR's. m
Muskie101
Posted 5/28/2024 12:23 PM (#1028691 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 150


Location: Rochester, New York
I was able to find a tiger muskie attack on Twin Valley Lake and I know about the muskie attacking the swimmer in Lake St Claire from 2021
North of 8
Posted 5/28/2024 2:38 PM (#1028692 - in reply to #1028691)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




A while back there was a pic posted, I think on here, of a bite originally attributed to a muskie but looked much more like an otter bite. I watch otters off my dock and that is one critter you do not want to bite you. Watched one climb up on my dock and eat a box turtle that had to be 8" across. Bit through the shell like it was cardboard.
Eastman03
Posted 5/28/2024 3:39 PM (#1028694 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




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I think it was this one North of 8. It was a muskie in Minaki, I know some credible people who were in the water with her and helped. "It pulled me under" is a stretch though!

https://globalnews.ca/news/7232238/winnipeg-woman-injured-musky-atta...

Muskie101
Posted 5/28/2024 4:19 PM (#1028695 - in reply to #1028694)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 150


Location: Rochester, New York
Eastman03 - 5/28/2024 4:39 PM

I think it was this one North of 8. It was a muskie in Minaki, I know some credible people who were in the water with her and helped. "It pulled me under" is a stretch though!

https://globalnews.ca/news/7232238/winnipeg-woman-injured-musky-atta...



I meant this one
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-lake-st-clair-muskie-...
Eastman03
Posted 5/29/2024 9:55 AM (#1028711 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 105


Interesting, I'm sure there have been pike bites as well, but most of the ones on google mention muskies only. I would imagine a lot of them go unreported and aren't that serious?
JZ2386
Posted 5/31/2024 10:48 AM (#1028782 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: RE: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




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This happened on my home lake. Musky population is low so I would think it is probably a pike. Not confirmed though.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/boy-bit-hard-by-fish-in-fox-lak...
bloatlord
Posted 5/31/2024 10:51 AM (#1028783 - in reply to #1028782)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 95


I once had a particularly nasty chain pickerel insinuate my mother was a less than honorable woman. That's about as personal as things have gotten, though.
mikie
Posted 5/31/2024 12:03 PM (#1028785 - in reply to #1028651)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans





Location: Athens, Ohio
Few things are less honorable than the opinion of a chain pickerel. m
Muskie101
Posted 5/31/2024 4:42 PM (#1028792 - in reply to #1028785)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans




Posts: 150


Location: Rochester, New York
mikie - 5/31/2024 1:03 PM

Few things are less honorable than the opinion of a chain pickerel. m


What is so dishonorable about pickerel
7.62xJay
Posted 6/1/2024 9:27 AM (#1028807 - in reply to #1028792)
Subject: Re: Documented Pike/Muskie Attacks On Humans





Posts: 501


Location: NW WI
Muskie101 - 5/31/2024 4:42 PM

mikie - 5/31/2024 1:03 PM

Few things are less honorable than the opinion of a chain pickerel. m


What is so dishonorable about pickerel


Are you familiar with Pyramid Schemes?
Yup, just about everytime there's a Pickerel at the top. I've caught ONE and a month later I lost everything, I was living in my car folding envelopes confident that I was gunna get rich quick. Took me forever to get out of that spell.
Nuh uh, no way, no sir, I'll never fish Pickerel water again.
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