You better be using a big bait. The baby geese around home are shin high now 
Reminds me of a buddy of mine who fancied himself quite the duck hunter. He was telling me, with considerable indignation, how studies proved that lakes stocked with Muskies produced fewer ducks. “So”, he says, “What do you think about that!”. I replied that I guess I better start using baits that look more like baby ducks…….
I did roll out of the way in time so the right cross he threw at me missed 
Rootski
I got a good chuckle out of one of the fishing shows I watched. Guy took a rubber duck or chicken and started casting that.
And don’t forget the the baits that look like a small muskrat. I hear they work great. 
And a shingle with a rat tethered with a trbel hook. Let it float over submerged vegetation and pull the rat off the shingle, let it swim around, and hang on. 
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You better be using a big bait. The baby geese around home are shin high now
Now thats s good one!!! And I am not surprised that they are shin high already, kind of like corn at the 4th!!!
Mark
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And don’t forget the the baits that look like a small muskrat. I hear they work great.
And a shingle with a rat tethered with a trbel hook. Let it float over submerged vegetation and pull the rat off the shingle, let it swim around, and hang on.
Huh…muskrat????
All this time I’ve been using baby kittens…go figure…
Years back I did see either a musky or northern hit a baby duck as the mother and babies were headed across the water.
Al
not my little muffin?!
So does this mean I need to run out and get the Gopher Musky Duckling? 
You bet it does. When are they gonna make one that looks like a baby loon?
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I was talking to the DNR last year, and the guy said he was watching a couple of ADULT geese swimming, and he watched one get plucked from the surface by a BIG fish
What do you think about the chances that a muskie could take on an adult goose
I wish they’d acquire more of a taste for the sky carp. There’s too many of them around the way it is.
Maybe if we stock muskies in some small metro lakes it might alleviate the honker problem.
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You bet it does. When are they gonna make one that looks like a baby loon?
They should make one that looks like an adult loon. 
last year on Tonka I had moved a VERY VERY large Muskie on a super model. There were 3 adult loons within 50′ of my boat so I moved off the point to give the fish a min to think about her poor aim. Rite as I was going to fire a cast back to her hidding spot the water exploded around one of the loons. If I haddent seen it with my own eyes I wouldent belive it. I sat in that spot for 45 min and the loon never surfaced. 
Do I think a big Muskie can eat a adult goose? No not even close. Do I think a very big Muskie can eat a loon? Yes I’ve seen it
Cedar Lake near Star Prairie, Wisconsin. Probably 1989 or so….I saw a Muskie take a hen Mallard off the surface like she was a Mayfly. There weren’t even feathers floating around. Bang! and she was gone.
I was frantically trying to find something to throw out there that looked like a duck, and then realized that particular fish probably wasn’t going to be hungry again for quite a while.
Fun to dream about, ain’t it?
Rootski
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Do I think a big Muskie can eat a adult goose? No not even close. Do I think a very big Muskie can eat a loon? Yes I’ve seen it
That nuts
But loons can swim underwater for quite a while, couldn’t the loon have beat it the hell out of there and resurfaced a while later possibly
Not doubting your story, but just wondering 
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Do I think a big Muskie can eat a adult goose? No not even close. Do I think a very big Muskie can eat a loon? Yes I’ve seen it
That nuts
But loons can swim underwater for quite a while, couldn’t the loon have beat it the hell out of there and resurfaced a while later possibly
Not doubting your story, but just wondering
I’ve got a witness if you’d like. The other 2 loons stayed there for 45min calling and looking for there buddy the whole time but he never showed. There’s no way he could of swam very far after being crushed by a 54″-5?” Muskie.
Is it crazy that a Muskie could eat a 5-6lb bird? You bet your [censored] it is, but I guess not any more crazy than that same fish eating a 5-6lb carp.
That had to be freakin awesome to see 
I think the current state record Iowa Muskie had a gull in it when caught.
There is a story from the resort that I go to every year about some people in a canoe that were watching 3 adult mallards swimming along ahead of them. There was a big splash and then there were 2 mallards (very nervous ones) then there was another splash and there was only one mallard… it took off immediately. Is this a true story… supposedly but I didnt see it myself. I know that when we fish that lake though my dad and I always say we hope to catch old Two Duck. 
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What do you think about the chances that a muskie could take on an adult goose
I’ve seen a Musky take an adult seagull once. Moose Lake near Deer River. I grew up on that lake. Anyone who’s ever Musky fished it knows what I’m talking about.
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