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Location: oswego, il | My partner has a fish follow his heckhound for quite a distance just under the surface over deep water and t-boned it 10 feet from the boat. That blind in one eye catfish really wanted that bait!
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| I've had a musky in the 36" - 37" range do this to me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTw9QapciPg |
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Location: Land of the Musky | By far it was Octomom on lake Minnetonka holding a 54" last summer. Creepy sight!
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| esoxcpr - That is a cool video, thanks for sharing!! |
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| flat calm saturday morning on shawano lake find a bear swimming 1/4 mile
off shore.
2 women going at it on a jetski on minocqua, buddy n i didnt fish
for a little bit...
not too strange this day in age i guess!
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| A couple years ago my wife and I were paddling in our canoe and saw a mallard hen flapping its wings and making a lot of noise, staying in one spot. We paddled across the lake and saw the source of her concern. One of her half grown ducklings had gotten a hook through its bill and was attached to a branch hanging over the water. Some crappie fisherman had overcooked a cast and broke off his hook, sinker and bobber in the tree, with a minnow still on the hook. It was just low enough to the water for the duck to grab and apparently the young ones have a softer bill. We paddled up to it and the hen herded the rest away from there. I unhooked the young one and it scurried after mom. Looking around, there were two other lines with minnows broken off along the same shore and hanging in branches. I think someone was fishing spawning crappies in shallow water and didn't want to spook them by coming in to get their lines unhooked. I pulled them off the branches and tossed them in the canoe. |
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Location: McFarland | Kind of an odd one for me last night. I'm assuming we didn't even know the little walleye was on because it was behind a planer board and the pike tried eating the walleye and got the other hook on the bait...pretty funny though when I reeled the pike in and saw the walleye dangling there.
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | In 2009 my son and I were fishing on Kakagi (Crow) Lake outside Nestor Falls, ON. We were over by Castle Rock when we saw a mother mink and her baby swimming across the cove. The baby got confused and veered off from the mom. He started to get tired and turned to our boat, crying the whole time. Then he tried to climb into our boat by getting up on the motor. The mom was calling and looking all over for her baby, finally spotted it by our boat and swam over. She grabbed the baby by the scruff of the neck and then swam to shore dragging the baby. The fun thing is we got it all on the camera. It was fun to watch. By the way, eagles landing in the water while grabbing fish is common. They sink their talons into the fish and if it's too big to get airborne, they will swim to shore with their wings used like oars. Have seen it a few times. They always seem to make it, so they must be pretty good swimmers. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | So we're making sandwiches and having an adult beverage the night of the SalmonFIRST (One and only) Outing out of Racine Harbor at maybe 2AM. Just hanging out, boats tied up for a break at the harbor. An eldery lady walks up in her nightgown only, asks us which way to Milwaukee. We point the way and off she goes... |
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| Trolling out on Leech Lake, and just going along the shore about 80 yards off shore with a friend and his daughter, and my son. I catch a small Northern and bring it into the boat. As I lift it out of the water a Lab comes swimming alongside the boat. My friend and I are telling the dog to go away, and the kids are doing the "Here boy" thing. The dog didn't know what to do. We lead it to shore, and then got out of there once the dog went ashore. |
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| On LCO in Hayward. We watched an eagle swoop down to the beach right in front of our cabin grab a full grown canadian goose by the neck. It dragged it into about 2 feet of water and drown the goose. It was sheer craziness!!! All this happened just as some new renters were coming down the hill to see the lake and how beautiful and peaceful nature is. Mom and dad with little daughter in tow. It will be something I remember my entire life. The sounds and the image of survival of the fittest. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | On Shelbyville in 1996 dad and I were at Dam West launch area we saw an intoxicated couple in a 34' Scarab struggling to get the trailer on the ramp. When the wife finally got the trailer on the ramp straight and in the lane, the husband yells "am I lined up". He was clearly not lined up and drove his boat straight onto the ramp, completely missing the trailer. The entire launch area was closed then until the road commissioner brought an end-loader to the ramp to lift the bow and push the boat back down the ramp. They were both arrested on site. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Slamr - 5/8/2012 2:11 PM
So we're making sandwiches and having an adult beverage the night of the SalmonFIRST (One and only) Outing out of Racine Harbor at maybe 2AM. Just hanging out, boats tied up for a break at the harbor. An eldery lady walks up in her nightgown only, asks us which way to Milwaukee. We point the way and off she goes...
Excepte she goes in the opposite direction that we pointed her. (Yes, we were nice and called the cops as it didn't seem right that an older lady was walking around at 2am in a nightgown. She got some public transportation to wherever the paddy wagon was going that night).
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| One time fishing in Philadelphia in the river from shore a man was walking around yelling some things in arabic. Didn't think much of it because I was getting used to seeing unusual things. Not until he decided to take off every stitch of clothing and pace up and down the path yelling. Gave some teenagers a scare as he was directly behind them. Not only that but a nice restaurant overlooks the shore close by, Im sure some people got a disturbing view while they ate. I didn't stay to find out what the guy was willing to do next. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I'd have to go with this one.....Walleye fishing in the middle of Eagle Lake near Dead Man's reef a few years back I suddenly heard my dad cry out in some horrified LOUD shriek like a little school girl....I look back to see a snake crawling up his lap. In one scared swoop he grabbed it and launched it about 30 yards in horror. No idea how it got there or how long it was in the boat but needless to say I probably would have reacted the same way |
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| Was in the process of releasing a 38" musk. Just got the fish out of my hand as it started tailing on the surface. It literally was 2 ft out of my hand and I was still bent over the boat when all of a sudden I heard a loud whooshing noise right over my head. I just see an flash of an object come out of the cornor of my eye diving right past me. It was an eagle swooping down to grab the musky i literally just let out of my hand. The eagle hit the water since the fish must have been a little bigger than it expected. I was sitting on the water like a seagul thrashing around. I quickly grabbed my rod and started hitting the eagle until it got off the water and flew away without the musky. Not sure if the eagle got the musky with its tallons or not but I was going to make sure he wasn't going to get a free meal. Never saw the musky after that. The eagle flew away to a nearby pine tree along with several other eagles. He must have sat there and watched us net and take pictures of the fish and had great timing on the release with its attack. If I had stood up right when that eagle came over my head i would have been smoked right in the back.
One of the funniest things that I have ever seen is that we were casting and my buddy made a high arching cast. Not really paying attention as the line was falling a blue heron came out of nowhere and flew right into the line. The bait had already hit the water so when the heron hit the line it had pretty good resistance. The heron ended up doing a complete back flip and landed upside down in the water. The heron laid on the water upside down flailing around. I started laughing so hard I couldn't breathe for multiple seconds. I tried composing myself to help the heron out but it was so hard to stop laughing. Finally he righted himself and flew away as i started heading towards him to help him out.
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| Not a fishing story, but while shining deer one summer night back in high school, in the headlights, a bud and I spied a coon limping across the road, dragging what appeared to be a length of barbed wire fence.
Grabbed flashlights and chased it into the bushes and had it cornered. Our intent was to see if we could untangle it.
Come to find out, it had a leghold trap around its front leg and the tie down must have pulled free, so what we saw as barbed wire was the chain and some trapper's wire.
Thinking quickly as to how we would get this trap off without getting shredded by this pithed-off coon, I remembered I'd been camping the previous weekend and had some nice firewood chunks of split white oak in the trunk of my '86 Tempo. Sweet ride, eh?
Nope, didn't clunk 'em. I retrieved a chunk of wood, and sorta all in one motion, (sorta kinda quickly gently) laied the chunk of wood across the coon's neck/shoulder area and stood on the piece of wood with my right foot to pin the critter down. The thing was amazingly docile. Not sure why.
Anyway, with the coon scampering off into the woods sans trap, we inspected the trap. The tag affixed to the trap revealed that the local trapper was indeed.....a local trapper and fur buyer, who raised sweet corn. We were about 200 yards from the guy's house. I think the trap still hangs from a nail up in the floor joists of my mom's basement, trap ID tag and everything. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | How about being lost in the BWCA at Midnight looking for a camp fire so you can find out where you are and where your camp is. You spot a campfire ahead and there are two guys by the fire, an A-frame tent, one guy holding a lantern and waving you into camp. Sparks from the fire rising up through the pines.....
Then right before your eyes as you get close.....the men, tent, fire, everything just disappears!!! Nothing but darkness and shoreline so thick that you could not even pitch a tent. There one second then gone the next!
Before you call me crazy you can also call the other 3 people in the boat crazy, we all witnessed the same thing.
We did find our way back that night and rolled into camp about 2am. I tried to sleep but the strange whisperings and sounds like someone was walking around the tent outside, made it very difficult. Hell no I didn’t go out and check to see what it was!
Ed
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Location: SE Wisconsin | MuskyTime, I like that story.. Creepy and kind of neat, wish I had been there to witness the strange event. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | MuskyTime - 5/11/2012 12:31 PM
How about being lost in the BWCA at Midnight looking for a camp fire so you can find out where you are and where your camp is. You spot a campfire ahead and there are two guys by the fire, an A-frame tent, one guy holding a lantern and waving you into camp. Sparks from the fire rising up through the pines.....
Then right before your eyes as you get close.....the men, tent, fire, everything just disappears!!! Nothing but darkness and shoreline so thick that you could not even pitch a tent. There one second then gone the next!
Before you call me crazy you can also call the other 3 people in the boat crazy, we all witnessed the same thing.
We did find our way back that night and rolled into camp about 2am. I tried to sleep but the strange whisperings and sounds like someone was walking around the tent outside, made it very difficult. Hell no I didn’t go out and check to see what it was!
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That kind of stuff intrigues the hell out of me!!! I wish I could have seen that! |
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| Gotta say the twighlight zone experience by MuskyTime trumps all. That is exceptional. |
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| MuskyTime wins for wilderness story, but Slamr and Tuffy1 win for urban story. Good stuff guys. My favorite eery night fishing story is wading for night time eyes on a large lake with a pile of cabins/homes and the power went out..... Suddenly got very dark when however many 100 cabins went dark. Long before my musky fishing days.
Wandering through the Minnetonka Regional Park in the dark seems to involve critters showing up and startling me on a regular basis. |
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| I've got a couple.
In the "neat" category I once watched a family of snakes try to swim from a point to an island. First four snakes made it, the fifth got nailed by a musky. Awesome to watch.
That same point is now "Naked Chick Point" in my boat. While fishing with my buddies a cute girl came out of the woods, stripped down and jumped into the lake, right in front of us. AWESOME! I honestly can't remember how the fishing was that day, but oh, do I remember her! 
I once had a "pack" of muskies follow in my Suick on Ballard lake. 4 muskies behind one bait. None hit, but it was totally cool.
In the WTF category, my buddy caught a 28 inch musky and we released it. I had a hit on the very next cast. Fish didn't fight much at all. Measured 28 inches. Same musky was boated on back to back casts.
Still in the WTF category, I was north last week and sitting out on the porch. Dad looked up in the sky and started freaking out. Up there were 6 large, but immature eagles circling the house just above the tree line. I've seen up to 4 eagles in relative close proximity, but these were all right next to eachother. A little unnerving. We got the dogs back into the house pronto.
Finally my very strange encounter. I was taking some guys out fishing back in the early 90's on Lac Vieux Desert. We launched and were fishing a spot at around 5:00-5:30 AM. The mist was just kind of releasing from the lake on that morning. All three of us looked across the lake and saw what looked like hundreds of canoes about a quarter mile from us. The boat got really, really quiet and we didn't hear anything. After about five unnerving minutes, the mist had lifted completely off of the lake and we couldn't see any boats, or canoes on the lake. Very, very strange. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Back about six years ago, I was fishing Minnetonka on a Saturday evening when a boat full of young women pull up in front of my boat. I thought they were going to ask me something, but instead they all took their bikini tops off and wiggled their bodies. They then drove away laughing and gave some guy with his teenage son a show too. Seemed they may have been drinking rather heavily.
For those who know the lake, it was near Big Island. I have fished that spot for years since and have never saw that again. Caught a few fish there though.....
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Fishing off my dock as a kid, my brother and I witnessed a very large spider about 2 inches long grab a 2 inch bass out of the water from the side of the dock. I beat the spider to death with a stick and the little minnow was free! Nobody believes us but it happened. |
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| I was fishing the other day and I raised a spotted gar that took.a swipe at my glider. |
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Location: Plymouth IA | Ranger - 5/14/2012 9:33 PM
Gotta say the twighlight zone experience by MuskyTime trumps all. That is exceptional.
I agree and have a belief about what they saw.
Memegwesi the Anishinaabe little people or spirit people of mischief. Must have taken a picture or picked up a stone in the wrong place without leaving something in return or they were just out for fun. I grew up on the Rez, so yes i have some strange beliefs. Cool post, the strangest thing i see is the boat landing here at Clear Lake any given Weekend |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin |
Could be the reason for another crazy story I have on LOTW. Long story short my boat got shoved sideways by an Indian warrior spirit and almost knocked me and my boat partner in the drink. No current, no wind, in 10fow. I now leave cigars (tobacco) and granola bars (dried fruit) as an offering on the island where it happened, like I said…long story.
Get a few beers in me and I will tell you the full story.
Be careful when fishing around Cushing Island!
Ed
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| We've come around the circle! When I hit the water I never leave the landing without flipping a silver coin into the water; like flip it high in the air and I say "To the Lady of the Lake." and then it hits the water.
There's a particular boulder in one of the Groveland Mine Ponds where I always flipped the coins. Some day some snorkler will find about $100 in quarters, unless the Lady of the Lake decides otherwise. |
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