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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Northern Pike => Topic started by: Neil McCauley on Jan 17, 2015, 10:00 PM
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Start with this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206017/Duck-issue-25lb-pike-eyes-bigger-mouth-chokes-death-bird-tried-swallow-whole.html
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-2206017-151B7D19000005DC-967_634x418.jpg)
:o
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My buddy and I were fishing a muskie rearing lake this late summer and saw a duck get grabbed near shore, then about 20 seconds later the duck surfaced and make a beeline to some reeds nearby.
I was ice fishing back in the 90's and I made a beer run. My buddies said my rod got pulled under by a northern, I was fishing with a shiner or sucker. The following weekend I caught a 2lb hammer handle and my lure was in the stomach attached to the partially digested minnow.
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I do t have a pic. But this summer a couple fishermen found a big muskie in our local lake floating on the surface. It had a 5# drum stuck in its mouth. They were able to dislodge the drum and revive the muskie to swim away.
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I fish muskies quite a bit and they do some strange stuff. We we're fishing one October and I'd just had a strike that didn't get hooked up in a favorite spot. Kept fishing down the break when suddenly the trolling motor started to shake violently. I assumed I'd run up too shallow and gotten into the stumps. Then I looked at the locator. WE were in 22 FOW. Couldn't figure it out so I pulled up the TM to see what I'd gotten into. It looked like this:
(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee417/esox_xtm/Fish%20Pics/TMTeethsm_zps55a6e37d.jpg) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/esox_xtm/media/Fish%20Pics/TMTeethsm_zps55a6e37d.jpg.html)
Dopey musky attacked the TM WHILE IT WAS RUNNING! Those scratches you see are the teeth marks..... Can't imagine the size of the fish. Certainly not a 3 footer.
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Dang, you may need to upgrade your prop baits to trolling motor props!
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I'll just leave this here...
http://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=297745.0
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About 8 years ago i was fishing on my favorite pike lake, the morning started off great, had 3 nice pike in the 1st hour and half on the ice ranging from 28-33 inches flags flying pretty consistenly, While i was attending 1 flag another went up so i huried to bring the fish in, it was a hammer handle, i let it go went after the other flag and another in the distance goes up. So im like DAM!! as soon as i said that another goes up...
I started fighting the fish i knew instantly it was a 15-20lb fish, so im fighting it, i get it to the hole after about 5-10 minutes and pull it up with 3 lines in its mouth..
That fish went and hit the 2 other baits while having one already hooked in its mouth... I know what your thinking, and its that it got tangled up, but it wasnt the case, all 3 hooks were in it throat with 2 minnows... That girl was just cruising and gorging herself... Ended up being 38 1/2 inches around 17 lbs.. I still laugh to this day over it..
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I don't have any photo evidence but while kayaking one day last summer a pike came up from behind my buddy and latched onto his paddle for a second. Gave us both a pretty good jolt to hear that thrashing. After seeing those pictures of the duck I can understand why the pike attacked his black paddle.