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I was serious the day I started hunting. After 3 years I finally bagged my first fish and biggest to date. I've raised a few bigger fish but at 49.5" at could be tuff to top in Indiana waters. Let me know when you wanna get out.
I would love to try for musky through the ice, but what I really wanna do is target them out of my kayak. Ever since I have started kayak angling I have really gotten into the idea of extreme kayak angling. My hero is Jim Sammons. He has taken extreme kayak angling to the brink and back with some of the fish he's chased. I know I am crazy but for me a musky out of my kayak would be the pennicle (sp?) of my kayak angling cause the odds of me every chasing sails, marlin or giant bluefin are out of reality for me.
Ouch!! LOL
Will do.
No tips here especially if you mention keeping one of the most elusive fish in the water. Strictly 100% CPR (catch picture release). I work very hard every year on the soft water to catch the few that I do. It's not called the fish of 10,000 casts of no reason. I strongly urge you to please release all muskies you catch. At 36" the fish is to big to taste any good.
nice post, i never really was all that serious about eating them until all the CR musky people jumped on me about CR before i even said anything about keeping them......
If you want to catch big fish to eat in Indiana. And don't want to spend all week trying to catch just one musky. Then go fishing for snake Pike. Snake is just a phrase for the small ones 20" and under. The sm ones are good to eat and I don't know of a length limit in Indiana. Now if you catch a big one I hope its also released, those big pike aren't much good to eat either.
I gurantee if you catch and keep a Musky to eat, you will be sadly disappointed. It would be like eating a 10-15 lb L. Bass, no good. Better off leaving then in the water for breeding stock.
Ditto!I've gotten my share of called from lake residents that find dead muskies floating and want to know if they can get it mounted. Most likely it was a musky purist that patted himself on the back for releasing a fish.
Muskie will not reproduce in the inland lakes in Indiana. So there is no breeding stock. That is why all these fish are stocked by DNR and musky clubs.
And where do you think the stocked fish come from??? Answer the verry fish already in the system, netted milked and released....
Then go fishing for snake Pike. Snake is just a phrase for the small ones 20" and under. The sm ones are good to eat and I don't know of a length limit in Indiana.
Wow......but not surprised.....FYI there is a length limit on pike in indiana and has been for as many years as I remember....it is 20" with a 3 fish possession limit. Pike are great to eat and a 20 inch pike has very little meat on it. You are better off throwing them back and keeping one larger one than 3 hammer handles.
Enough is enough, a person can only take so much, so I have to ask. Ever since that "Trash" thread you get on my case when every you can, Why? FYI I have never fished for Pike in Indiana, I really didn't think there was a size limit. I am sorry if I posted any wrong info, now do you feel better, does making fun of or knocking others down make you feel superior? I take it you r always right, never wrong or willing to admit you r wrong about anything. I do, thats what a real man does. Some think you are the resident Mr. Perfect and know it all in here, I consider you the resident bully, anyone who disaggrees with you gets your wrath. If I get bared from here, so be it. Enough is enough I'm tired of your little digs every chance you get, I had to say something. I'm not the first and will not be the last person in here you come down on. I guess since you are superman in here they let you get away with it.
I have only been musky fishing once(years ago), and i landed a 43" on about my 10th cast out of Loon lake. I released it, but i wish i would have kept it and had it mounted.
I have only been musky fishing once(years ago), and i landed a 43" on about my 10th cast out of Loon lake. I released it, but i wish i would have kept it and had it mounted. I have been preaching catch and release my whole life for Indiana Steelhead; it's a lost cause. With the amount of gills, crappie, & bass slaughtered by people on here, i was surprised to see all of the C&R folks come out and speak up.
BTW, I was a taxidermist for 20 yrs. And if a fish floats in warm waters long enough if is unmountable.
True as one that came to me had maggots on it. I don't know about people killing them and throwing them back but it would not surprise me. I've heard people do that with the trout in some of the lakes where they are planted. Lots of ignorant people out there that want to have an excuse for their bad fishing skills. My point was for those that think all fish that are released survive just because they swim away is wishful thinking from my experience raising fish in four ponds and three recirculating systems. I've really become educated on how sensitive fish really are and how easily they can develop bacterial and fungal issues just by handling them. I.e. bass are very prone to fungal issues if handled in water under 50 F. There's a small minority that just don't make it no matter how careful you are. Don't get me wrong I'm for catch and release just like the next guy (I get more per inch for replicas and do replicas 50 inches or over just for the cost of the blank for a local musky guide), and do believe most of these fish should be released. But to come up to a boat of angler that has just caught one and chastise him for keeping a legal fish is just plain wrong in my book. BTW here's one that was kept recently in New York that was caught icefishing:http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,330322.0/topicseen.htmlDidn't the INDNR completely take over the planting of musky here in Indiana? Broodfish are trapped to produce the fish now right? None are purchased anymore by clubs?BTW is your name Jerry by any chance and did you come to the AIT shows back when you were a taxidermist? I think I remember you. I was impressed by your work.
90% of the time "they" "stick" them in lakes that are on the decline do to the invasive nature of gizzard shad and the way they out forage and out produce more desirable fish and dominate the population dymanics of a lake or reservoir. This coupled with the timing of a declining panfish and/or gamefish population reinforces the ignorant opinion that the stocked predator is consuming the desirable species that they were introduced to help. Let us not forget "they" are scientists. That's what they do.
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