or did people jump to conclusion and the rest just pile on the band wagon.Couple of years back there was a load of muskies died in the St. Lawrence and no body brought up sucker rigs there...
Just a thought
BIG JIM
Dead Muskies between 416 and Beckettslanding
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Just had something cross my mind here(several thoughts in one morning...I'm on fire today)...do we even know if any of these floaters are indeed the victims of sucker rigs?????? or did people jump to conclusion and the rest just pile on the band wagon.
Couple of years back there was a load of muskies died in the St. Lawrence and no body brought up sucker rigs there...
Just a thought
BIG JIM
or did people jump to conclusion and the rest just pile on the band wagon.Couple of years back there was a load of muskies died in the St. Lawrence and no body brought up sucker rigs there...
Just a thought
BIG JIM
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Just to shed a little light on the catch and release study. They were given permission by the MNR to harvest a couple muskies to assess the damage done by the various live bait rigs used. NONE of the fish are left to float away. Dependent on the type of hooks and rigs used, some of the disections have been very interesting showing tears in the esophagus etc that would go unseen by the fisherman. Although the fish appears OK and could swim away, these tears would let food enter outside of the digestive tract to decay and eventually kill the fish. Other hooks have cut major blood vessels etc, again, in areas that the fisherman would not be able to see.
I think it will be very interesting to everyone once the results of this study are published. It may influence a few fishermen.
I think it will be very interesting to everyone once the results of this study are published. It may influence a few fishermen.
i did found one a 52 inche musky near that bay where people fish for crappies(golf place)..i did not fish hundrdes off time the rideau but a few and this was the first i found.
yes the rideau is pounde for musky fishing but a few area more then others a lot off area are not tutch or not mutch.
there still a good population off musky in there but we do have to be carefull.
like i said before..the way the people handle the fish is worst then the way they catch it.
time out off water
how its been onhookes..no good tools
nets..no a good one so could hurt the fish then get infection and so on
play wit it way to long specialy in hot water so become dead tired and let go wiout any help etc..this do kill fish more then suckers or lures.
the dows lake musky die off lately was not cause by fisherman.same in the stlawrence few years back
joco
yes the rideau is pounde for musky fishing but a few area more then others a lot off area are not tutch or not mutch.
there still a good population off musky in there but we do have to be carefull.
like i said before..the way the people handle the fish is worst then the way they catch it.
time out off water
how its been onhookes..no good tools
nets..no a good one so could hurt the fish then get infection and so on
play wit it way to long specialy in hot water so become dead tired and let go wiout any help etc..this do kill fish more then suckers or lures.
the dows lake musky die off lately was not cause by fisherman.same in the stlawrence few years back
joco
Just to clarify a few points made by Larry. All muskies caught in the live-bait study have been hooked superficially (i.e., jaw hooked), except one that was gut hooked and died soon after release. Results of the necropsy can be seen here: http://projectnoblebeast.blogspot.com/2 ... ingle.html. The only muskie harvested in the study has been the aforementioned fish that died within two hours of being released.
All radio-tagged fish, either in the live-bait study or the catch-and-release study from this summer and fall, are tracked at several pre-set time intervals to determine survival or mortality. All fish have exhibited upstream and downstream movements for at least one week post-release. This is why I was interested in this thread to start with because there were reported dead muskies that anglers believed perished at our hands, but all our data suggests each fish in both studies are alive and have long survived the original C&R event.
Was more information collected on the reported dead muskies (were anchor and radio tags found on the fish)? Thanks!
Sean Landsman
All radio-tagged fish, either in the live-bait study or the catch-and-release study from this summer and fall, are tracked at several pre-set time intervals to determine survival or mortality. All fish have exhibited upstream and downstream movements for at least one week post-release. This is why I was interested in this thread to start with because there were reported dead muskies that anglers believed perished at our hands, but all our data suggests each fish in both studies are alive and have long survived the original C&R event.
Was more information collected on the reported dead muskies (were anchor and radio tags found on the fish)? Thanks!
Sean Landsman
Little off topic, but I was at the Long Islan locks in Monotick a few weekends ago, we were fishing with jigs and minnows, when two woman showed up with huge bobbers, and giant treble hookes tipped with what must have been at least a 6" yellow perch!!!
Pretty sure, that it is illegal to use Perch as bait... they did not catch anything while we were there...
Pretty sure, that it is illegal to use Perch as bait... they did not catch anything while we were there...
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Joco...you want a broad...Ooop's excuse me, a chick that fishes with illegal bait and bobbers bigger than your ....and they fish with that bait on trebles
Well he did say there was TWO....and my sucker rig components are here now
Hey Matt....you busy Friday after work...
BIG JIM
....and they fish with that bait on trebles Well he did say there was TWO....and my sucker rig components are here now
Hey Matt....you busy Friday after work...
BIG JIM
Re: women
Big Jim wrote:Joco...you want a broad...Ooop's excuse me, a chick that fishes with illegal bait and bobbers bigger than your
Well he did say there was TWO....and my sucker rig components are here now
Hey Matt....you busy Friday after work...
BIG JIM