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| Title: | Fishing-V2: All About Angling |
| Notice: | Time to go fishin'! day egins |
| Moderator: | WAHOO::LEVESQUE |
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| Created: | Fri Jul 19 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 548 |
| Total number of notes: | 9621 |
512.0. "Muskie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" by POLAR::MAHANEY () Thu Aug 08 1996 09:25
I was suprised to see that there are no entries made about the fresh
water barricuda (sp?), the Muskie! The fish of 10000 casts. Where I
live in Canada (near Ottawa) the muskie fishing is very good. I myself
usually hook on to 1 - 3 every year, even without using the big tackle.
What I really love about a muskie is it's feeding habits. Twice this
year, I have seen one up close feeding. The first one was off the
Madawaska River near Arnprior (a well known muskie spot) I was fishing
for walleye in about 25 ft of water, and then something big caught the
corner of my eye. A muskie had come up to shore in about 2 ft of water,
and was sticking its nose into the shore looking for food (frogs?) It
was the biggest muskie I have ever personally seen and it was
quite weird seeing IMO a 4 - 5ft 50 pnd fish in so close to shore.
The second feeding occurred this weekend (which inspired this note) I
was fishing near an old dam near the Rideau Lock system in a weeded end
of the river. It was off a dock, and I notice this shadow coming
through the water. I swam right past me, this sucker was about 4 ft
long. This muskie made the classic circle sweep of the area, 5 times he
broke the surface nailing bass and bullfrogs. What was neat! A family
of ducks moved away from the middle of the water to the shore while
this was happening. Although I have heard that muskie feed on ducks,
otters, squirrels, etc, it was neat seeing the ducks being scared of a
fish.
Any other muskie lover out there?
Sean
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| 512.1 | fish story | CSLALL::ONEILL | | Thu Aug 08 1996 13:12 | 9 |
| Hello,
Im really not up on the subject but every time I hear the
word muskie, Im reminded of a picture I saw in a local paper from
Wakefield Mass. Some guy pulled a 40" tiger muskie through the ice
at a man made pond/lake called qunapowitt. That picture hit the paper,
and every angler hit the lake. You should have seen the place come
spring. It looked like the scene from Jaws when all the boats were
heading out after the big shark.
Jim
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| 512.2 | Another Fish Story | POLAR::MAHANEY | | Fri Aug 09 1996 12:47 | 25 |
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Giday,
a similar thing happen about 8 yrs ago while I was vactioning at
Lac. St. Marie in Quebec. The story ran in the Montreal Paper Le Devoir
A 7 yr old girl while swimming off an old dock was attacked and needed
40 stitches to close her wounds. They found that under the dock was a
muskie spawning area, and the mother muskie (? or papa) attacked the girl
because she was violating the egg bed. The Fishery agents killed the
muskie and it was just over 60" long and weight around 70 pnds. The biggest
muskie pulled out of Quebec waters in the last 20 years. Well the next
weekend I bet every redneck fisherman from New York invaded the little
town of Lac. St. Marie to do some muskie hunting. It was quite funny.
I still remember the pictures of the girls wounds opposite the
picture of the muskie (which was truly huge). I have heard that muskie
will torpedo and dent boats but this was the first time I heard of one
attacking a human. The story in the paper said that there had
been at least 10 reported attacks in the last fifty years. I did not do
a lot of swimming after the story ran though.
Sean
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