Here it is fellas, sent down from the heavens, a place for us Muskie Junkies to call home. I want to start it out right so here it goes. Bobby caught this fish last weekend while sturgeon fishing. I don’t know if it is a sucker, redhorse, or some other garden variety bottom biter, but
CHECK OUT THE TEETH MARKS!!!
From the angle of cuts it looks like the ski that had a hold of this bad boy but only got the end of her snout on it. Talk about a true bucket head!!!!!
Man… JAWS of DEATH!
Not to side track your story but I have a cool tale about a muskie versus redhorse that needs telling!
My bro and I are canoing down the lower Zumbro 2 summers ago and we come to a long, slow stretch where the max depth is no more than 18″. The water clarity is so good the water might as not even been there. A guy could see the coloring on the crawfish claws as they poked their heads out from under their rock, to illustrate further.
To make a long story short… we got into this shallow stretch and come across a muskie drifting head first down stream about the speed of the current. This is a BIG muskie for this body of water… I’d guesstimate a mid-40 inch fish. Sideways in this fish’s mouth is a big redhorse. And it is still alive. About every 15 feet or so as this fish drifted along it would turn on its side and bang the head of the redhorse into the bottom in an attempt to kill it.
After 3 or 4 violent smashes into the bottom the redhorse was stunned enough to swallow.
That whole deal was VERY, VERY cool!
James;
I have two words for you………
THANK YOU!!!!!
I have two words for you…
Bite. Me.
Finally. 
James you just made a really bad day get better! 
That would have been a sight to see. A memory that will last a life time.. 
no sir……don’t like it…….don’t like it at all!
Both you and Gary are welcome. Enjoy. Talk it up. I look forward to looking in and reading.
Hey all right!!!! Just in time for the season to start in a few days!!!
Cool story James……Wish the season started here in a few days!
Your story James brings back memories of my “favorite” shallow slow moving river with some very large ski in it. Shallow with some deeper…up to 6-8’holes… I was casting some topwater working my way up to one of the holes that held a mid to upper 40’s fish and all of the sudden about 30 yards to the left I hear the water surface explode! I turn to see what appeared to be a LM Bass flopping on the shore and this big boy flopping back into the water. I have also witnessed a Musky trying to catch a swallow out of mid air below the Eau Claire Dam. The birds kept flying to and from their nests and they had to fly within feet of the water while the Musky tried to get his timing down. That one was rather comical to watch! Ok I’m done reminicing. Brad
Timmy might be right! I pulled a 24lb pike by Wheeler’s point, next to the wind sock a few years back and a buddy’s dad has a 29lb pike from the same area too!
Well whatever it was, it bit off more than it could chew.
Thanks to all who made this happen!! Can’t wait till opener Doug
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