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| It's an odd sight. One lake I fish on has some river otters in it. So when I saw something on top of the water as I was trolling around the corner of an island, I thought was one of the otters at first. But when I got closer I could see it was a Musky swimming along with his head almost completely out of the water...like a periscope. He went down and then back up again for 15-20 seconds. It was kind of creepy. Have you ever seen that? |
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| I saw a northern pike do this, two different days.
It would have it's head completely out of the water, swimming real slow. It's head would be moving from side to side. I went up to it, with the trolling motor, and it would swim down slow, like a muskie being released. It came up three or four times, in the following fifteen minutes.
A few days later, I was fishing the same area, and the same fish came up and did it again. It was at least 40 inches long. This time it only came up once.
I thought it might of been trying to swallow something big, but after seeing it the second day, I'm not sure.
It was a weird site!! |
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Location: Ontario | I'm sure it was discussed here before - I was never lucky enough to witness this my self |
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| Ya I have seen it a few times, it's pretty spooky looking though. |
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| Seen this happen once with a musky swam around like it was injured then dissapeared.Casted a few times and got it to follow twice but not take during the 8.Wish i had video camera that day. |
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| ski glider - 8/1/2010 11:57 AM
Seen this happen once with a musky swam around like it was injured then dissapeared.Casted a few times and got it to follow twice but not take during the 8.Wish i had video camera that day.
I believe this was talked about on here before, and there was a video of it as well
strange for sure
Dave |
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Location: Land of the Musky | There were some BIG girls on Waconia that would always do this on hot days. One came up and circled my neighbors dog and kids as they were swimming. Dog barking, kids screaming, and of course he was laughing his ars off at the whole deal. Said the musky came up twice for about 45-60 seconds each time. |
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| has strange has this seems,,,its very very common probbably like whales jumping out of the water in Alaska,,especially with tiger muskies and especially on dark water lakes ion calm hot days in july and august,,very common to see this on twin cities tiger muskie lakes |
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| there gulping air because of their swim bladders, you'll see them porpose doing that too as well as just sitting there on the surface. Controls there boyancy in the water as well as helping them digest food! |
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| Hi, I heard of a Musky in Dryden, Ontario, do this and when the fisherman approached he realized the Musky had a baby beaver in its mouth !! |
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | i have seen this happen twice both times on the same lake in vilas county both times it was windy and both fish were swimming into the wind. |
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| I have seen gar swim with their head out of the water and lay with their back and head out while bowfishing at night. I thought they were gulping air as that lake has terrible algae blooms and bad summer fish kills (not a muskie lake). I would think most muskie lakes have at least decent water quality and dissolved oxygen. |
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| Here's a video from on here from Pineview. I've personally seen this numerous times on a lake stocked with Tigers in the central part of WI.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/videos/10.11.2008/1181/Body.Surfaci... |
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| I dont think anyone has pinpointed why they do this,,I asked a Minn DNR metro biologist why they do it and he said he thinks its to flush parasites out of their gills..it proves one thing,,muskies arent that sensitive to sunlight if they have their heads out of the water |
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Location: Oregon | Yep, I have seen Tiger Musky do this in my neck of the woods...........strange.
jed |
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Location: Antioch IL | I was fishing with Todd M and he should me this happen. I as like i have never seen this before. It was a tiger muskie also. |
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| We saw a huge fish well over 50 do this on vermillion about 7yrs ago. The fish had her whole head past the gill plates above the water and was swimming vertically. Swam like this for about 25 yrds, craziest thing that I have ever seen, looked like a spade shovel moving back and forth across the water. We marked the fishes location and came back to her only to have my buddy hook her and have her shake off after about 20 seconds. Was a tanker for sure, had an eyeball the size of a beer can. Good times for sure. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | "its to flush parasites out of their gills" ...previous post
My friend always said there goes another infected one with "Gill Fleas"!
I've never seen a "natural" do it, but have witnessed tigers on Shabbona, IL, Clinton Lake, IL., and numerous tiger lakes in the Twin Cities. I just think the tiger/hybrid muskie is naturally a burnt peanut! |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | I have seen it several times. Whenever I was close enough to identify the fish, it was always a tiger. |
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| any truth to the rumor african tigers swim with there heads under water  |
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Location: Twin Cities | And of course, these fish cannot be caught...  |
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| I can confirm the african tigers report, I saw this numerous times working with Dr.Jane Goodall in an overlapping study years ago.. The Hungarian runt tail beaver swims like this as does the Burr county whitetail deer, Persian groundhog and Egyptian pit viper. You do not what to catch any of these mammals or reptile with hook and line. |
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Location: Houlton, WI | ive seen it happen a number of times. no clues why they do it |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | hh, Yes. And some humans swim with their head below water. |
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Location: Minnesota. | sworrall - 8/4/2010 10:01 PM
hh, Yes. And some humans swim with their head below water.
Not a bad tactic. Just think you could whistle underwater to call 'em in.
No, really, you can. Just swing your head side to side and before the water fills back in just whistle. Amazing results.....
(ahem, cough, cough)......
Jeremy. ( I actually had some guy believing this around 30 yrs. ago!) |
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| I actually saw this on Round Lake in Wisconsin, trolled up to the fish and netted it. It was a 46 inch Tiger. Round is very clear and this day was very calm on a hot day in July. |
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| weve seen them swim around like that, almost earie cause they have such a blank stare almost like a greatwhite shark. hehe
most of the time i always thought they were trying to finish sucking down whatever they just ate. kind of like if you break off a fish, and it has the bait in its mouth,
it comes to the surface to dislodge it. in this case, they are prolly simply saying
"#*^@, why did i take such a large bite" |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | How would you like to spend 30 years under water not knowing whats up above??? We strive to get under water by scuba gear,cameras,etc just to see what's below.I think it's normal to see a fish with it's head out of the water,its a problem when they get beside your boat and you pet them till there tail wags....I need out of the heat,be close to 100* the last 15 days.. |
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| what would be cool is if you could legally stand on the front deck and lasso them,,maybe legal?? not hook and line but line??? |
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Location: SE, WI. | Interesting...Yes, back in the 80's when the tiger musky was more prevalent in pewaukee, I would see this act often. Now that the lake is 99% trues, I rarley see this occurance anymore. Interesting why it is more dominant with tigers??? |
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