Muskies on walleyes

[jigginjim]

Last night I was fishing Bob from Pike bait in Buffalo, along with Greg and Tom friends of Bobs. Fishing walleyes, Tom had just set the hook on a walleye, a muskies grabbed on to his walleye. Tom fought muskie for several minutes, got the muskie to the surface. When trying to net, the approx. 48 plus muskie the 6# line broke, the walleye and muskie gone.

About 30 minutes later, I set the hook on a walleye and no more a couple of turns of the reel a other muskie grabbed on my walleye. Back reeling and loosing up the drag to hopefully land this one. I managed to get the fish just under the surface, was another large muskie. The muskie made several runs, almost swimming to the net. It made another hard run under the boat, and then it was gone, But I still got the walleye. Scared up, with large cuts in the tail and back.

Forget using perch for bait, walleyes get the big girls. If I would have gotten the muskie in and it being legal(which I'm very sure it was) both would have been mounted together.

[lowjax10]

That is awesome! I've had that happen a couple of times with pike but never a muskie. One time we landed both the walleye and the pike.

[slurpie]

Twice in one outing and both muskie would make for a fun tense night. Almost could'nt wait to set the hook again.

[mrklean]

haha, this might add fuel to the fire that mukes eat tons of walleyes

[GrizzlyAdams]

That is a blast. We had that happen with northerns up on Rainy lake about a month ago. We tried targeting northerns but they wouldn't bite. The only time we "caught" some was when we were reeling in small walleyes. They would come to the boat with the walleye in its mouth and right when we tried to net them the pike would let go and swim away. It was such an adreniline rush to see them come all the way to the boat and how big they were. Bet it was even more fun with the muskies. Way to go!!

[gunflint]

Yeah, the skie are getting frisky. I had one hit a marker buoy last week and it had been in the water a while. I almost jumped out of the boat.

[fishinfey8]

The pic of the muskie in my avatar was caught on a walleye. I was reeling in a 12in. walleye when all the sudden...SMACK! I immediately knew what happend and let a little line out knowing that I prolly wouldn't land it. Well I did; only using 6lb. test. JWmiller had a great net job and we took a few photos, and released the fish. Jw has a great pic on his phone of the walleye in the gullet of the muskie...

[10,000 Casts]

sound like you have a really good spot. When you catch your limit of walleyes you should get out the bucktails!

[The Grebe]

I was fishing the river for crappies last week, using my standard, ballhead feather jig. I was bouncing it along and 'Thunk' I get a hit.

I started bringing the fish in, thinking I probably had a little smallie and all of a sudden, this thing starts taking out line and the drag is really squealing, lightweight rod bent double.

The 4 pound test held and all of a sudden I'm back to reeling in a smaller fish. Then it does it again and I'm thinking maybe I had a big old weird catfish on the line? It done this 3 times, with no hit other then the initial hit on the jig? I really wasn't sure what I had at that point? Did I snag a line with a fish on it?

The 3rd time the fish started taking out line, it rolled close to the surface and I could see it was a pretty good sized northern....then it was gone. I reeled in the little smallie I hooked first and it's tail end was pretty shredded.

I've had big fish hit smaller fish before, but there is usually some kind of a tell tale hit, or visual sign to let you know what happened? Not this time, it went from suspected small fish to major hydralics and back again 3 times, weird sensation.

[St_Croix_Banks]

Guess I'll be throwing my walleye colored swim bait this weekend.

[The Grebe]

I thought about it to, pitching a walleye colored bait, cause we'er going up to Mille Las...but I don't know if I'm addicted enough to fish in the rain that is forecasted?

[mainbutter]

I was sight fishing with senkos up in Canada. I spotted a SM bass, chucked my lure past it prepping to jig past its nose, when the fish bolts. I figured I spooked the bass. A moment later, my brother spots a musky chasing the bass. I didn't spook it, a big predator did

We got to watch the action, and the musky got a meal.

It was pre-season so I didn't chuck anything at the musky, but I bet she would have eaten anything I threw at her.

For the people who know what it feels like to have that feeling of something BIG taking off with a fish you hooked, imagine what this felt like when I was deep sea fishing in Aussie land:

[jwmiller33]

The pic of the muskie in my avatar was caught on a walleye. I was reeling in a 12in. walleye when all the sudden...SMACK! I immediately knew what happend and let a little line out knowing that I prolly wouldn't land it. Well I did; only using 6lb. test. JWmiller had a great net job and we took a few photos, and released the fish. Jw has a great pic on his phone of the walleye in the gullet of the muskie...

HERE ARE THE PICS FROM WHAT FISHINFEY8 is talking about!

[DHanson]

Got to love it when a muskie sees a struggling fish up in the water column and then decides to make a meal out of it. Natural instinct takes over. The fact of the matter is, that it could have been a sucker, walleye, rock bass, pike, tulibee, panfish etc. etc.......Now if you could replicate the action of a struggling fish being reeled in.

[NCLaker]

JW ... that is CRAZY!!! great pic's!!!

Brother in-la had a big ski hit his eye on the Croix. Ever since, he has been interested in targeting them.

[fish with teeth]

had that happen to me up in canada. hooked a 12" to 14" walleye got up to the boat and i reached down to grab it. all i saw was a big set of jaws open(high 40's) and grab my fish about a foot away from my hand. scared the sh*t out of me. fought it for about 5 min and the line couldn't handle it anymore and broke. it was not the best gear but it is a great memory. can't wait to get back up there.

[paceman]

I have had that happen 3 different times on Big Detroit. Reeling in a good eater walleye and have a big ol muskie rise up to the surface grab the walleye, flip her tale and away she goes....It is pretty flipping cool.....

[Rick G]

Usaly happens once or twice a year on the river for me. Big muskies love little smallies and walleyes.