Muskrats on wax worms

[skulldugary]

Was out thursday,only fair fishing at best,one 17"walleye(kept that one),dink perch,lost a lunker gill,7 small pike and 2 twin bass around 5 lbs.Every thing released but the eye..Around 4:30 my buddy starts yelling he has something big hooked and was having a heck of a time getting it to the hole,he starts hollering "holy crap" and is backing away from the hole when he pull a muskrat through the hole and the thing is slapping at it's face trying to get the hook out so my buddy gives the line a jerk and the jig comes out.The rat then runs and goes right down the same hole...Man I wish you could have been there to see my buddies reaction ...it was absolutly hillariuos...

[GEEMAN]

LMAO !

[Polar]

A true trophy indeed.....

[utes]

Who was scared more? Your buddy or the rat.Would have liked to been there for that.Get a couple dollars for that pelt ya know. LOL

[baginwal]

It sounds like you guys were fishing in the open.  Can you imagine if you were in a shanty and he pulled up the Muskrat???  LOL.  I was fishing one time with my daughter and she hooked a burbot.   She had no idea what a burbot was, only that it tugged way harder than a perch!   Once she got it to the hole, she peered over to see what it looked like.  She was definitely not expecting what she saw as she dropped her pole and bolted out of the shanty!.  The burbot went back down the hole, snapped the line and took off.  At least we got the pole back.  It took her about 10 min to get up the courage to "jig again"!

[fozsey]

Was out thursday,only fair fishing at best,one 17"walleye(kept that one),dink perch,lost a lunker gill,7 small pike and 2 twin bass around 5 lbs.Every thing released but the eye..Around 4:30 my buddy starts yelling he has something big hooked and was having a heck of a time getting it to the hole,he starts hollering "holy crap" and is backing away from the hole when he pull a muskrat through the hole and the thing is slapping at it's face trying to get the hook out so my buddy gives the line a jerk and the jig comes out.The rat then runs and goes right down the same hole...Man I wish you could have been there to see my buddies reaction ...it was absolutly hillariuos...

ROFLMAO Don't think there would be enough hooch on the planet to take care of that one. When we were trappping for fox and coyote when we were in highschool, we got one of those by accident in a leg trap and when we went to check the trap, he was pi$$ed. He wasn't hurt. Neither of us wanted to release him. For some reason his teeth looked a lot bigger up close and personal. I have seen a few over the years, but not that close. I developed a lot of respect for them and keep my distance.

[acsacmboy]

anyone up for some northern pi..... MUSKRAT!!! would love to see his expression

[Bobberstop]

When I was growing up as a kid in Minn.I had a spearing shanty with a 2'x2' spearing hole. One day while watching the decoy a Muskrat popped up in the hole and dove right back down, scareing the bejesus out of me,and soaking me at the same time. lol

[trapperdirk]

 Wait till you have an otter pop up out a hole in the shack . I didn't hook the bugger but he tried to tell me it was his place to dump in . LOL . The chisel fixed him when he thought he was putting me outta my home and I was a hundred bucks richer . LOL

[Flathead]

I had a rat stick its head up my hole several times one day the last time he put his feet on the carpet i smacked him with the ice scoop.

[IceKing]

What do you use to jig for rats. I'd like to give it a try.

[show_me_the_money]

nothing like a good beaver in the shanty

[2 dogs]

Had a rat come up in the hole in our tent, was not paying attention and eating a burger when splish splash there he was on the floor. I had my dog along who went postal. The rat took a good gander and back down he went but sure got our attention. I sure would hate to hook one good as how to get the hook out w/o gettiing bit or killing the wee beastie.

[FishDaddy09]

A muskrat came up the hole in my buddies santy once! He had a greenhorn from work in there with him. Talk about bailing out fast! That guy never went icefishing again!