bob johansen
6/7/2008 7:12:00 AMlol - With this cool weather I think there is a lot of "creative whining" going around the fishing world.
Rosann G
6/7/2008 8:36:00 AMCongrats on your first muskie of the year. You should give Tapps a try since the water temp is a little higher there and the muskies have been biting sporatically for a while. We that fish Tapps as our main hunting grounds will join in with you on your creative whining though as the weather conditions have been the pits alot of days.
muskyhunter
6/7/2008 12:44:00 PMDon....?
Still fish dead bait? Really? That must be the old school Wisconsinite lazy fishing method?Like draggin a sucker. Do you use the quick set strike method on something like that? I would think that if you did hook into a Tiger that might certainly increase the mortality of the fish..just sayin. You caught a fish on Wednesday?What was the length & girth? Todd
Still fish dead bait? Really? That must be the old school Wisconsinite lazy fishing method?Like draggin a sucker. Do you use the quick set strike method on something like that? I would think that if you did hook into a Tiger that might certainly increase the mortality of the fish..just sayin. You caught a fish on Wednesday?What was the length & girth? Todd
Don Wittenberger
6/7/2008 3:43:00 PMNo, I didn't catch a fish on Wednesday. This is 2008; the "2007 season" was last year. :) If I had caught a muskie this week, I wouldn't be griping about the weather, would I? No, it's only when I get skunked that I need a scapegoat. And no, I didn't still fish dead bait. I said that tongue-in-cheek. There's a factual basis for it, though. Still fishing frozen smelt has long been a popular early spring tactic for northern pike in Idaho, and that's also how Washington's largest tiger muskie was caught. I ran into the guy who caught it at the Mayfield boat launch last summer. He still fished with smelt near the hatchery just after rainbow trout were dumped in the lake. Tiger muskies gathered in the area to feed on the trout. His big fish weighed 34 lbs. on the hatchery's scale. Unfortunately for him, the state record slipped through his fingers because he waited too long to get it to a certified scale. He didn't know they shrink out of the water.
While we're on this topic, it seems kind of obvious that still fishing with dead bait should be prohibited because of the likelihood of hooking the muskie in the throat or gut, which results in 100% mortality. We could ask for a regulation restricting tiger muskie anglers to artificial lures, or at least limiting use of dead bait to trolling, where they're more likely to get hooked in the mouth. Maybe that should be our next regulation project.
While we're on this topic, it seems kind of obvious that still fishing with dead bait should be prohibited because of the likelihood of hooking the muskie in the throat or gut, which results in 100% mortality. We could ask for a regulation restricting tiger muskie anglers to artificial lures, or at least limiting use of dead bait to trolling, where they're more likely to get hooked in the mouth. Maybe that should be our next regulation project.
muskyhunter
6/8/2008 11:50:00 AMHey Don,
You may then want to make yourself and your comments crystal clear. Your comments may have been "tongue n' cheek" but first impressions are some times what get folks in a tizzy.And we really do not want that happening.Same with telling folks were to and how to fish these critters.
And what a perfect way to get guys worked up.... Are you really sure the Tigers were bunched up to feed on the trout? Maybe they were bunched up to feed on the Pikie Minnows that feed on the Trout? I'm just saying watch what you say. And be clear on what you say.
As far as regulation changes.,.,we all need to discuss the issue. Before one makes it his/hers their own..
You may then want to make yourself and your comments crystal clear. Your comments may have been "tongue n' cheek" but first impressions are some times what get folks in a tizzy.And we really do not want that happening.Same with telling folks were to and how to fish these critters.
And what a perfect way to get guys worked up.... Are you really sure the Tigers were bunched up to feed on the trout? Maybe they were bunched up to feed on the Pikie Minnows that feed on the Trout? I'm just saying watch what you say. And be clear on what you say.
As far as regulation changes.,.,we all need to discuss the issue. Before one makes it his/hers their own..
Don Wittenberger
6/8/2008 12:36:00 PMThere may well be some folks out there who interpret literally, and take to heart, everything they read and hear; but I respectively decline your invitation to live in their humorless world.