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MyFishFinder By Species => Muskellunge => Topic started by: Otter on Mar 23, 2004, 08:50 AM
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Made ya look! ;D
Catch & Release: it's for the future...
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yea you made me look. I was going to post only CPR a muskie. good one buddy.
HIMO
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Smart Alec! ;D
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Yuck! Muskie's suck to eat. If you catch one please release it. You don't want to eat it, trust me. (Actually never ate one, never would, catch and release only) you did make me look.
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i kept a 38 in tiger musky once,it was actualy better tasting than a walleye,
now i'm guilt ridden for keeping and eating it :-[ i release e,m all these days
they are tasty though ;D
very tasty :o
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One of these days muskies are going to over populate a lake then what will we do?
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Spotted owl soup is real tasty ;D
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We will have to eat them some day you just cant eat everyone you catch
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Spotted owl tastes like eagle.
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Got my attention, good one :) On a different note, I dont think anything compares to the delicious taste of House Cat, cmon' we have all been to the buffets ::)
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AAAAH, VERRY GOOOOO!
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One of these days muskies are going to over populate a lake then what will we do?
Muskies are rare. If there were too many muskies on a lake and food became scarce for them natural selection would take care of the problem. If the lake holds pike there is very little chance of a moderate musky population because pike and muskies spawn in the same areas but pike spawn earlier. The pike fry hang out in these areas and feed on the younger and smaller musky fry.
If you want to eat an escolid try a pike. They are much more numerous. I don't think that an overpopulation of muskies is very likely but if you know of a lake with this problem let me know and I'll be there and after catching 5 I'll even eat one with you.
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I'm not saying the lake I am taking about has got a muskie proplem but i have lived on a lake in Minnesota for 15 years and I am not saying it is a problem but during the last 15 years I have noticed a big differance in the lake and the lake does hold pike but in the past few years I have only seen 2 or 3 pike caught and dozens of muskie and the bass and waleye population has gone down and then again they may have moved to different water but the lake is not that big you would think some how has lived and fished the lake my hole life I would be able to find them. And yes you are correct when they run out of food nature will take over but a lake that only has a few smaller fish and a ton of muskies to me would not be fun but then that my thought about it other people may think just the opposite.
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Wow sounds like a "problem" I only dream of. Has this lake been stocked? Or a natural Muskie population on the rise?
Norm
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this lake has been stocked many times but every time the dnr does there thing they only get very few muskies in there nets but yet we can go out there ice fishing and sit and look down the holes and see a muskie or two every day we are out there. and in the summer we see alot suning and up in the shallow water. It is kind of a cool thing to see but I think they do change the outlook of the lake. (other species) TJ Bauer
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Yes, when the forage base gets depleted enough, the muskies as well as other gamefish will look for other food sources including smaller muskies. Sounds like a situation where there may be a combination of things going on including over harvesting of desirable "eating" gamefish ie: Walleye and Pike, a natural or man made decline in the forage base, overstocking ect.. I can sure think of many worse situations, If it were a Lake by me I would most certainly target Muskies 100% of my time on that water and still practice C&R. The truth be known is that Muskies get a bad rap for depleting other gamefish when the fact is Walleye, Pike and even Bass eat Gamefish as well (smaller size but in greater numbers). Most of the time when a lake shows a depletion of gamefish overharvesting or some other man made or natural problem is the culprit, not the Muskie population. Would sure love to make a trip up and fish that lake sometime, but definately wont eat any Muskies. You can also present the issue with your Div of fish and game, here in NJ I only notice the Pickerel population taking a hit where Muskies are stocked. Muskies dont eat them all (maybe some) they compete for the same habitats and lose after a number of years.
Good Fishing.
Norm
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I agree with alot that you are saying it seams like it is the muskies taking over but since the lake has became the best muskie lake in southern minnesota fishing pressure has become just terrible and the thing is if you do not know how to fish for a muskie it is a very high chance that you will never catch one and fishing the way you would nomally fish will catch walleyes bass and pike which then takes fish out of the lake. But it makes you think how many fish have they eaten I know they will eat fish have thier size and when the average fish is 40 inches there is alot of fish half thier size. Also not knowing what a muskie looks like is a big deal there is alot of people that do not know. I used to work at a resort on the lake and I cannot even count how many times people would come in and say "look at the big pike I caught" and it would be a muskie so many time they do not live. In the lake I can say for sure I have seen fish that were 60 inches long easy. and thats no joke my Brother caught 1 it was 51.5 inches and 34 lbs and a buddy of mine caught 1 last year and that was 54 inches and about 40lbs.
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cpr all the way many anglers keep muskie that dont fish for them or that hate to have them in there lakes so they kill them. its like that everywhere. shouldnt have to worry about any over population. ;D
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Muskies dont really disturb native fish populations like some may think...Its actually been proven that often times when muskies thrive, so do walleyes. Bass too in similar situations. They grow and develope so slow...there such a sufisticated species.. We will never have to worry about them "overpopulating" any body of water..