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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The perspective the muskies are forced to in the North during the winter of 2013/14. They don't miss us a bit.
And that ain't no 'pounder'.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i've seen 2 incidental musky catches through the ice so-far this year … |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | LOL - its mystery to me why folks think they stop eating, maybe they slow down a bit since they like warmer water than northern pike. LOL- if that was a northern you would probably be retying a new jig on that pole!
Question: what do you do when you see them come on the screen like that? Very cool pic, Steve.
Happy New Year
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I mess with them. Usually it's the bluegill shaped Aqua-Vu camera body that draws them in, and whatever we are fishing with eventually gets their attention. We see a good number of 'em all winter long. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Al … i fish hard for big pike each winter and use big bait and have never personally caught a musky so unless things change for me personally i'd subscribe to the notion that they are pretty dormant during the winter months. if they were active foragers i'd imagine i'd have caught a few by now. maybe i just reverse jinxed myself into catching a good one though ... |
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| That's cool ! Just think if you stepped out of your shanty and came back in and glanced screen and seen that !!!! |
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Location: Smith Creek | I've probably lost over a dozen jigging raps to muskies over the years.
One of the few times I would prefer not to see or hook a muskie. |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | They are caught quite often in Indiana through the ice...and I have had some pretty amazing days the week before ice up. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | jonnysled - 1/1/2014 11:13 AM
Al … i fish hard for big pike each winter and use big bait and have never personally caught a musky so unless things change for me personally i'd subscribe to the notion that they are pretty dormant during the winter months. if they were active foragers i'd imagine i'd have caught a few by now. maybe i just reverse jinxed myself into catching a good one though ...
I sure haven't caught too many, but I've had two smaller fish on tipups and caught a 42 on a crappie I was reeling in a couple years ago. A couple days prior to catching the 42, I had another big fish take a crappie on the way up but broke the 2 lb test - same lake, same spot. Last year, same lake, I watched a big mark follow a crappie up, up, up. Got the crappie through the hole and a fish grabbed my transducer and played tug-o-war with it for a second.
Have also had them smoke hooked bluegills on cribs through the ice and one hit a gill, then nailed my non-realistic underwater camera and held on till it's nose hit the edge of the hole.
Most times they just seem to float around under the ice, barely moving a fin. But they sure do eat. When they decide to eat it's just like summer - can't keep them from grabbing anything under the water that's moving.
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