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Posts: 2068 Location: Appleton,WI | Saturday morning I decided to soak a sucker.With the colder longer nights I figured there might be one or two fish setting up on the break line or deep weeds.I had this sucker down 8 feet in 19 feet of water.Im thinking the fish grabbed and dropped the sucker before I got to it.The bite marks are around 4 inches wide on a 11inch sucker.How big was the fish lost???? Attachments ----------------  suckerfish.jpg (45KB - 1110 downloads) | ||
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| Here is a pick of a floater I found on a MN lake for reference, it was about 48 inches long, maybe more... The measuring stick shows a spread of about 6 inches in the back of its mouth, but the spread between the teeth is likely less than that. However, the measuring stick probably was not as far back as possible. It also depends where in the muskies mouth the sucker was when it chomped down on it. If the bite marks are parallel to each other, than it stands to reason the sucker was likely in the back of the muskies mouth when it bit down on it. If it isn't way in the back of its mouth, then who knows how big it was. Your picture doesn't seem that cut and dry to me, maybe even the fish in this picture could have made marks like that? Besides, the one's that get away are always big, so I say it was 60 inches long.... Edited by JWB475 9/5/2006 7:13 PM Attachments ---------------- Mantrap2.jpg (194KB - 8891 downloads) | |||
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Posts: 4266 | Here's a picture of the lure that was new until it was eaten. You can see the marks at the head, middle and tail. You don't believe me, I don't care. Everything is a Louis Spray thing. I don't know why I bother to post. Attachments ---------------- Ten inch snack.JPG (18KB - 149 downloads) | ||
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| Beav, The late, great Peter Haupt of Round Lake fame once told me that the truly large lunge (40#'s and up) just have a knack of escaping. They obviously have been hooked before and their size and strength and scarceness give the fisherman something that he or she is not used too. I believe he put the ratio at 4 out of 5 escape. Peter was a great muskie fisherman who i had alot of respect for. I for one, have only had one or maybe two such encounters with such fish. Both escaped and were hooked trolling. I never got to even see the largest one, cause she would not come up, despite a long (in my mind) battle. I was fishing world class water in Canada and have seen enough fights to know. My lure only had 2 bent out hooks, no other damage. Jim, i know the pain. As Peter would tell me, those chances don't come along often, and that escape is painful. After i lost my big fish, one of my best friends who was with me asked me if it would have been better to atleast seen her. I couldn't honestly answer that question. Best to you, Pikiespawn Thanks for sharing  PS I caught a 49.5 32#er the last day of the trip. I didn't think the fish was near that coming in. Thats when i knew what had escaped a few days before. Oh well.... Edited by Pikiespawn 9/5/2006 9:05 PM | |||
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