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Walleye fishing when BIG Muskie moves in...Options?

ShammyTommy

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I was fishing Wed night for walleyes and right at prime time this HUGE Muskie comes in right at the bottom. As you could probably guess I didn't see another mark all night. What would you do since they are "out of season"?

A. Jump up and down to scare him away?

B. Have the guy from Minnetonka come and get him?

C. Call DNR to stock more Muskies?

Tom

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Esox_Magnum Grand Master

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Guess thats fishing. I have caught fish with northerns and muskies on the camera screen in the background. Sometimes yes fish will leave an area while they are present other times now. Thats the bonus of having 20'+ visibility you get to see whats going on all around you like watching a big fish tank.

I'm a walleye and muskie fisherman, I don't blame 1 for not catching the other. I blame bass.....

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I was on Sugar 4 years ago and had 3 muskies at once under the shack! everytime I put my camera down the big one would start taking a run at it. I tried everything to get them to go away and I finally got 2 to leave but the big one I decieded that I would have to break down and feed it. I took the camera in one hand and a 7" gill and dropped the gill down the hole, Wham! she crushed it and came right back. I dropped 2 more down the hole and she swallowed both right then and there. finally she took off after I wrapped line around one ( no hook ) and lowered it down and she grabbed it and I pulled hard enough to break the line in one motion and she took off with the scales of the gill flying out of her gills and a small blood trail in the water. It was the Bomb! I just wished I had been set up to video tape it.

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 Originally Posted By: ShammyTommy
I was fishing Wed night for walleyes and right at prime time this HUGE Muskie comes in right at the bottom. As you could probably guess I didn't see another mark all night. What would you do since they are "out of season"?

A. Jump up and down to scare him away?

B. Have the guy from Minnetonka come and get him?

C. Call DNR to stock more Muskies?

Tom

I would pack up my gear and go get a beer and change my britches

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I love the surprise when a big torpedo swims through the hole. I have had them charge cameras, rub their backs on the Vex transducer ( that fish was longer than my Gentz TrapIII ) hit a bluegill I have on the end of my line at the bottom of the hole ( needed clean shorts afgter that one) Just cool watching fish react to everything around them or sometime no reaction to anything. Also being a muskie fisherman its neat seeing fish you may catch in a few short months when the ice is gone. Frustrating to when you see 60 walleyes a day nose your offerings and move on. I love my gin clear water grin.gif

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Move. Big northerns and muskies will shut down your bite. Move to another high percentage area. Or catch the thing and that should spook it enough so when you release it it will go away. By then though the bite is probably toast. I would just move.

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