Ducks, they want ducks!

[Random guy]

I was on a Metro lake early this morning and as the sun was rising I heard a flock coots going nuts on the water. I turned around see what all the ruckus was about and an eagle was swooping back and forth over the flock. These divers didn't dive!? They just grouped up in a tight little ball as swam like heck in one direction until the eagle swooped in again then swim like heck in another direction. I stopped fishing so I could watch all of this unfold and maybe get to see an eagle in action. Out of nowhere the water exploded and up comes a fish, a nice fish! I was to far away to see if it was a pike or a musky,(from the size of it and the location I am guessing musky)but it definetly got a duck. All you could see and hear was this torpedo coming out of the water and one set of wings flapping and splashing like there was no tommorow. (probaly because for the duck tommorow was not gonna happen) The last thing I saw was a wing still flapping away going under the water. I must have stood on the bow of my boat for a good ten minutes just trying to accept what I saw. I average twenty to twenty five hours a week on the water during musky season for the better part of fifteen years and I have never seen anything even close to that!

I have a stuffed wood duck on the entertainment center. I caught myself looking at it today thinking about how to run the wire for the hooks.

[Metroguy99]

I've seen that at least twice on metro lakes. The duck goes down in a flash of feathers and never comes up. Good story,very fun thing to watch.

[shamalex72]

Jon, here you go

[MSRiverdog]

I talked to a guy on Mantrap years ago that had just watched that happen to a Mallard. I know of 4 people here on the Miss that have watched Eagles take out Mallards.

[Random guy]

shamalex, I love it! Now that is a bait I definetly don't have.

[randallt]

They sell those lures in Rollie and Helen's Musky Shop I am new to musky fishing and thought they were for a joke, but I guess they really work. That would be pretty wild to see one get eaten, even better if it were my duck lure!

[cjac]

I recall reading a story from last year about a couple that was on White Bear and saw ducks/coots getting harrassed from underneath by a huge fish. So....they threw on a big hairy bucktail and popped a 50+ inch muskie. Stories tend to bend and grow, but I read this one in the Pioneer Press.

All our lures are meant to mimic nature, and a duck is a part of the food chain! Speaking of....could you have imagined getting a suntan duck hunting today?

[Lost]

I have a friend that lives in Michigan. He said he was out watching the ducks swim around and diving. Suddenly one duck never came up. He couldn't quite figure out what happenened.

A couple days later he was out watching the ducks do the same thing. He watched a duck resurfacing and suddenly saw this huge shadow underneath it and the duck was pulled back under.

He said that group of ducks got smaller and smaller and he finally got to see the hungry monster as it torpedoed out of the water after the ducks. He said it was a huge northern.

[randallt]

I wonder if you could hook up a duckling on a quick strike rig.

[Steve Foss]

Legally?

Knew a guy in Wisconsin who fished muskies and big pike by putting a mouse on a piece of shingle and letting the wind drift the shingle out couple hundred feet. He had a bare hook fastened to the mouse anchored by a rubber band around the rodent.

When the shingle got far enough downwind, he'd jerk the mouse off the shingle and it would swim like crazry for shore or the nearest log floating in the water. When it got close to a safe harbor, he'd reel a bit to keep it in open water.

I doubt it's legal anymore, and the PETA yahoos would squeak (mice are people too, and they have the same rights we do), but it caught a lot of bass, pike and 'skies.

[Cooter]

Hey Jon, did you see what color the body of that duckling was? Looks like a Big Pond Special to me!

[mtreno]

my dad still spends part of everyday with the camera out on the end of there doc waiting to see it happen again. he spends so much time out there watchin ducks that he is gonna get one a film one of these days. mom gets sad evertime we bring up the momma duck that started the spring with seven ducklings and entered summer with only 2.....

maleens before it was maleens used to sell a duck musky bait.

[cableguy031]

It is sad when mama duck starts with seven and end up with 2 at the end of the season, but hey, it's the circle of life. Something's gotta give for others to survive.

[Worst Kid]

Cabelas online. Baby duck lure $29.99

[Random guy]

Quote:

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Hey Jon, did you see what color the body of that duckling was? Looks like a Big Pond Special to me!

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ya baby ya!

[markkstanley]

Jon, the ducky lures don't come in pink sadly enough.

[Random guy]

I always have an answer.

[kato811]

theres a copule of guys on here that carve duck lures.i ve carved some. i got the idea from Just4fun he posts here once in a while. there were some pic of them on here a while back ive caught some bass on mine really havent had a chance to try them on muskies yet

[MNBIGBEAR]

I remember reading a small article in a musky hunter magazine a few years back that showed a guy holding a nice musky in one hand and a duck in the other. He said he was casting the shoreline and heard a splash and saw a duck flying away. He threw to the spot where the splash was and WHAM. He pulled in the fish and noticed feathers coming out of the mouth. Sure enough the musky had just eaten a duck and still hit his bait! wish they were that hungry all the time.

[Hwood]

I had made a couple little ducks this spring. I had one ski sitting under one with it's mouth open but that is the most action I have got so far on them. I would put a picture up of one but I am not sure how.