Large Fish Catches Boy in Minnesota -

The Ledger ^ | August 28, 2004

[annyokie]

ping!

[johniegrad]

I know this family and the lake. I've caught muskies in it. They can be aggressive and big but this is unusual.

[Guillermo]

Noodling?

[BlindGuardian]

Man...I'm glad the kid is ok. Interesting story.

[No Blue States]

Wow, I didnt know they are that agressive.

The boy need to get a rooster tail lure and 20lb big game on his rod and teach this fish a lesson with the filet knife.

[No Blue States]

What do you think? The fish mistook his white tennis shoe for a large shad or something?

How big do they get, they are full of teeth right?

[johniegrad]

Not me.

[Gunrunner2]

Seems I recall a similar incident many, many years ago, near Lake Amelia, MN. My grandparents had a cabin there and I was maybe 10-yrs old at the time and some other kid was dangling his foot in the water off the end of the dock and a Northern Pike pit and wouldn't let go. The kid raised his foot out of the water and "caught" the fish. The kid had to have stitches as well. Made me darned scared to go into the water the rest of that summer. . .and maybe had some influence on my inability to watch Jaws when it first came out.

[johniegrad]

[A CA Guy]

Well, can't let my 4 pound Yorky swim there, that is for sure.

[theFIRMbss]

[Calamari]

http://www.toothycritters.com/alltackle_records.html


Shows the world record sizes.

[TBarnett34]

Role reversal 'just damn' ping.

[TexanToTheCore]

Your Yorkie is just an appetizer to one of these fish.

[Publius6961]

This is the genuinely first fish story I have ever heard.

[DannyTN]

When Fish Attack!!!

[TomGuy]

Even little 3" perch can try to nibble on exposed flesh in lakes and river areas.

This little boy deserve a PH for fighting off that vicious creature; hitting it in the head. He ranks right up with with Jimmy Carter and that killer rabbit.

[blackdog]

The early fall can bring unusual behavior in muskee. They will tend to pound large objects they normally would eye up first before hitting. I don't know if it's a feeding frenzy thing knowing winter is coming or if it's a territorial thing? I was once fishing rock bass in swifwater over a spillway and was chatting with a guy who had gotten in a spat with his wife and grabbed his salt water surf rod and like ten inch long lure which was comically huge for fresh water and was just practicing his casting, pitching it fifty yards from bank to bank. He pitched it on top of some lillypads and it landed with a "Splat and sat on top. Out of nowhere came a monsterous muskee that took the lillypad and lure with one huge leap. It took the guy over an hour to bring it in. It wouldn't fit in his trunk head to tail. It had to go thirty to fourty pounds.

Bluefish will do the same thing when frenzy feeding in schools. They would hit a coffe mug if it were in the water.

[UnklGene]

Didja see the one that gottaway?