Anybody ever heard of this?

[Fishin is life]

I'm a bass fisherman first and foremost but with Green River Lake being my home lake i also poke around in muskie fishing some....saw something today that really made me wonder

I was fishing in the back of a creek....probably 3 1/2' of water....throwing my favorite little crankbait when i feel a bite....then the unmistakable pull of a muskie....fought the fish for a few minutes and finally get it up to the top of the water by the boat to try to get my bait back without bringing the toothy critter in the boat....this was about a 28-30" fish...what happens next i really cant explain

I'm down on my hands and knees bent over the edge with my line in one hand and my pliers in the other when i out of nowhere i hear a loud commotion at the other end of my muskie....when i look back what do i see and feel....another muskie has ahold of the tail of my muskie....i've seen em up to 45" and this one was all of that if not more....with the tail in her mouth i feel her give me about 2 good jerks and then she disappeared as quickly as she had appeared....

I assume she was trying to eat the smaller muskie but wow....trying to eat a 2 1/2' fish....have never heard of muskie doing this but just wondered if anybody else out there had ever heard of or saw it happen


PS: Kinda makes me wonder about swimming in GRL

[DJD]

Swimming ok----skinny dipping not ok!

[know1]

Wow - there must be some big ones in GRL!

[Stanley_p]

http://www.fishin.com/forums2/pictur...180384&thumb=1

Here is a pic of one I caught several years ago. It had a 3 1/2 lbs carp inside of it. It's tail was hanging out of it's mouth.

Stanley

[bmck25]

When we go to Canada we will catch pike and they do the same thing to each other. We have caught some of our biggest pike doing this because they won't let go! You can be fighting a 5lb walleye and have a 4lb pike come grab a hold of it.

[burt.fishin]

WOW Im a bass kind of guy and Ive never seen or heard of that before. my only question is: whats your favorite crankbait? (I usually fish a worm and Im just now getting into crankbaits)
thanks

[RICHYD4U]

Happens all the time. We also go to Canada quite a bit to do some smallie and pike fishing. We have had numerous large pike take a hold of smaller pike we had on the line...and they don't let go! The whole pike/musky family are very canabalistic.

-Rich

[mhall]

Believe it or not to muskie fisherman they see this kinda thing from time to time. Muskie are extremely aggressive at times and will try to eat darn near anything. To lay stock to DJD's post, there was a small boy actually bitten by a Muskie in Wisconsin last year while swimming near the shore. It required stitches in his hand to repair some damage done by the toothy critter. Muskie are just plain mean boys, just plain mean.

[Chubminnow]

There was a small boy actually bitten by a Muskie in Wisconsin last year while swimming near the shore. It required stitches in his hand to repair some damage done by the toothy critter. Muskie are just plain mean boys, just plain mean.

I caught a Musky one time by accident...dag gone slimey son of a gun! Ever since getting him in the boat that day I have been a firm believer that a fella needs to make sure he has his shoes on if he gets one of these rascals in the boat.