Nice 4B Buck

  • love2fish
    Shoreview, Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 1024
    #623045

    That’s one skinny fellow.

    John

    Pete Bauer
    Stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2599
    #623048

    Wow! That is one skinny fella! I cannot imagine a fish in that kind of shape can live much longer

    jeff_jensen
    cassville ,wis
    Posts: 3053
    #623049

    How did it fight?That fish looks like it is on it’s way out.
    Too bad,should have been a bruiser at this time of year.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13294
    #623052

    That fish needs to change it diet from buck tails and crank baits to perch and sunnies. Did it fight at all. I caught 27.5″ walleye this fall that looked like that. Skipped it to the boat and hoisted it over the side. Only then did i realize the length of the fish.

    Jeff Bennett
    Lake Puckaway Wi.
    Posts: 1180
    #623062

    Nice fish , it must be the slim size model.

    mpoot
    Eagan, MN
    Posts: 43
    #623063

    Didn’t hardly even make a splash when we pulled him out of the water. He was swimming next to the bucktail and just turned it’s head bit the bucktail and swam right in. We unhooked him and got him back in the water and he slowly swam away.

    rvrat
    st cloud,mn
    Posts: 1571
    #623065

    I would be curious to know if/what was wrong with the fish. How did it act? fight much or not. Gives a meaning to their nick name “snake”. Neat catch…Jay

    david_scott
    Twin Cities
    Posts: 2946
    #623075

    I’ve caught small northerns like that here and there, never one that long.

    I caught one northern on lake George by St Francis years back that was so skinny the body lit up when I held it up with the sun behind it. I dont think the fish was any thicker than a pencil behind the rib cage to the tail.

    chamberschamps
    Mazomanie, WI
    Posts: 1089
    #623099

    My buddy caught a super skinny smallie like that once in the BWCA. It had a lead jig head partially protruding from it’s bunghole with the business end still stuck in the fish. Best we could tell the fish ate someones rig and slowly passed it through it’s digestive tract untill it finally got hung up at the cornhole. It probally couldn’t eat or digest food well and was starving to death.

    I’d be curious how many disproportionately skinny fish we see occasionally caught have tackle lodged somewhere in it’s gut.

    howler
    bagley wi.
    Posts: 609
    #623101

    whiskeyandwater
    ????
    Posts: 2014
    #623145

    WOW! too bad that should have been a nice fish!

    I guess fish like that make up for the fish that seem to weight twice what the should!

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    #623760

    Quote:


    That fish needs to change it diet from buck tails and crank baits to perch and sunnies. Did it fight at all. I caught 27.5″ walleye this fall that looked like that. Skipped it to the boat and hoisted it over the side. Only then did i realize the length of the fish.


    Maybe it’s a vegitarian and belongs to PETA….

    jcthorson
    Austin, MN
    Posts: 200
    #198671

    This is my grandpas buck he shot near austin on sunday morning just after sun up. It had a 15 inch inside spread and weiged 125 pounds.

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    #14374

    Hey JC

    Small world… I grew up in Austin! Welcome to the site and congrats to your grandpa on the nice buck.

    livetofishmn
    Mankato, Mn
    Posts: 296
    #13778

    nice buck im lookin to get me one like that this weekend in 3B

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