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| How long after being caught would it take for a big fish 50" plus to bite again? I had located a very large fish in a very remote area at the end of summer, it is very hard to access. I felt it would be safe until spring, but then I heard about a 50" plus fish that had been caught and released in the same general area. How long would a fish of that size be lure shy? |
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| No one can answer that! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sometimes next day, sometimes never recaptured. No sure reasons why, way too many variables to pin it down conclusively. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | I have caught lots of big fish on the LOTWs. As far as I can tell I've never even seen the same fish on the same spot again.
Doesn't mean that it can't happen, but it's never happened to me.
Doug Johnson |
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| I know about a 53+ 40+ pounder was caught on back to back days in Kentucky about 2 years ago.
I also know of a 40 pounder in Wisconsin caught one day, then caught again the next.
It can happen.... |
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| I know a guy that caught a 40 pounder back to back days this year, unfortunately the second time it died while releasing. Sometimes you don't even get a second chance when you miss one on a spot, or even see one for that matter. they do what they want, and sometimes thats leaving a good area to avoid pressure. stupid fish |
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| Interesting question. Nobody has researched this with adult muskellunge. But the phenomenon of vulnerability to repeated angling HAS been examined experimentally with largemouth bass in ponds. Researchers at the University of Missouri did some largemouth bass vulnerability experiments back in the 1960s and documented a wide range in vulnerability among individual fish in ponds on the Little Dixie Wildlife Area. The ponds were fished weekly with the same lures and amount of effort each week. Some bass were caught only once during the entire season. Others were caught up to TEN times. I think the "average" bass was caught four or five times during the course of the summer, but don't quote me on that one (don't have my library here with me now). The take-home message is that largemouth bass exhibit high variability in their vulnerability to repeat capture with artificial lures. Some learned their lesson the first time. Some never learned. Are muskies the same? I don't know, but I do know that I've seen muskies in lakes protected with high minimum length limits that have obviously been caught MANY times, judging from various scars on the face and body. I am uncertain how much time must elapse before even a naive fish will fall for a particular lure after having been caught on it previously; but if muskies are anything like bass, there is likely to be great individual variation in their vulnerability. |
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| I heard of someone in the pmtt getting broken off and then another angler catching the fish+lure the next day. |
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| I caught a 50.50" 35lber as a cold front was rolling in with 3-4' waves and caught the same hawg a week later at the exact same spot on a blue bird sky flat as a pancake day. Go figure!
Jim Ott "MuskieOtter" |
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