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Watt:

--- Quote from: ChrisOlson on April 09, 2012, 11:17:58 pm ---All they have to do is come to Wisconsin and get some of our 5 foot tiger muskies and let 'em go in those lakes that got snakeheads.  Muskies eat anything that will fit in their mouth - ducks, snakes, muskrats, northerns, walleyes, bass, other muskies.  And snakeheads would make a nice snack for them too

Muskies are apex predators.  The hybrids (Tiger Muskies, which are a cross between a male northern pike and female muskellunge) are sterile but they grow 1.5x faster than purebred muskies, and all they do is eat.  A big tiger muskie attacked a little girl that was wading in shallow water at a resort on Nelson Lake a few years ago.  The muskie grabbed her by the leg and dragged her out to deep water.  The girl's dad managed to get her away from the fish but her leg was all tore up and needed surgery to fix it.

Another guy got one that bit onto his foot a few years back:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-69449032.html

We could actually use some of them snakeheads in our lakes here to provide food for the muskies so they leave the walleyes alone.

Northerns would eat them snakeheads too.  I had to search thru my photos to find this picture:

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I caught this nice 10" crappie and when I was reeling in my fish this northern came out of the edge of a weedbed like a freaking torpedo and grabbed my crappie off my hook.  Northerns and muskies eat their prey head first, so when it grabbed my crappie it got snagged in the corner of the mouth by the hook.  Well, then the damn thing went under the boat and came out the other side.  My wife seen it and she had the net.  When I tried to get my line around the trolling motor the fish surfaced and she got it in the net.  The northern still had the crappie clamped firmly in its jaws and wouldn't let go of it.

I hate them frickin' northerns.  They slime the boat up when you get 'em in, and these big ones will bust everything all to hell in the boat by the time you get the hook out.
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Chris

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Chris, what do them muskies taste like?  I ask because we have Carp around here and always turn our nose up to them when someone asks if we eat them.  Why hell no is my reply until, I made a trip to Nebraska and went to eat with some local folks there.  Well, we went a popular fish eatery in Omaha and what I noticed was Carp on the menu.  Lots of it and lots of different ways.  I yelled, not real loud but yet loud enough, ' Y'all eat CARP? '!  Yes, plenty of funny looks from the crowed place.  I had the Catfish on the menu.  Even when I tried the Carp from the buddy I was with, I was not impressed.  I think it was one of those life long Carp is bad things. 

Just wondering.

Wolvenar:
I don't know if I can give you much of a review on the taste of muskies in my area but they are DAMNED fun to catch!
you can fight these things for hours on the biggest rod/line setup. A friend and I were out fishing little wolf lake in Cass Lake Mn once and they had one nice sized one bite. That fish drug a rather heavy 18' boat around the lake for nearly 20 min before we got it in the net. Neither of us had been rigged up for that kind of fish, really lucky to get it in.

Watt:

--- Quote from: Wolvenar on April 10, 2012, 12:12:31 am ---I don't know if I can give you much of a review on the taste of muskies in my area but they are DAMNED fun to catch!
you can fight these things for hours on the biggest rod/line setup. A friend and I were out fishing little wolf lake in Cass Lake Mn once and they had one nice sized one bite. That fish drug a rather heavy 18' boat around the lake for nearly 20 min before we got it in the net. Neither of us had been rigged up for that kind of fish, really lucky to get it in.

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We have a similar worthless fish to catch.  It is fun and a lot of work if rigged up right. 



And no, I have no idea how they taste.  We throw them up on the bank and let'm rot.

RichHagen:
Around my parts, one of the big problems of the moment is the Asian carp.  They have been making their way up the Illinois river and are now near the entrance to Lake Michigan.  There have been a few lawsuits over stopping boat and barge traffic in an attempt to keep them out of the Great Lakes, and the Army Corp of Engineers has erected a few electric fences along the river in attempts to prevent their migration further north.  It may be in vain however, as DNA from the carp has been detected in the Lake already.  Here was a brief article on them from Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1962108,00.html
They're not the carnivores like the other invaders, but they'll out compete other game fish, and they have a habit of jumping up out of the water when a boat goes by, a few boaters have been literally hit by large flying fish.

Wolvenar:
Rich, they are moving up the Mississippi river also, the DNA had been detected last year in the Twin Cities/Minneapolis  area.
This year someone (think it was a DNR employee) caught a live one.

These guys are *really* friggen dangerous to boaters, and literally kill everything else in a lake short of carnivorous fish like notherns and muskies by starving them, so it's not a trivial problem.

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