Old Wives Tales

  • airpart
    Posts: 170
    September 26, 2003 at 5:17 pm #1328270

    Here’s a little food for thought. I was cleaning a bunch of white bass (yes I do eat them) a couple of weeks ago in the Lake City fish cleaning house when an older fellow came in to see what I was cleaning. I mentioned that I hadn’t seen a walleye in a couple of days and he commented that this time of year the Walleyes gums get red and their teeth fall out and that is why I didn’t catch any. I know this isn’t true (is it?) , and wondered if anyone else had any other old wive’s tale about fish or fishing.

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    September 26, 2003 at 5:26 pm #257605

    I’ve heard this about pike, but have never witnessed it. The one’s I’m catching on Tonks sure have a lot of teeth right now. The ones I catch out there in the winter also have plenty of teeth.

    b_sander
    Red Wing , MN
    Posts: 800
    September 26, 2003 at 5:43 pm #257610

    Thats the first I have ever heard of that, the fish I have been catching the last few weeks on 4 were not red or toothless! But next time I get skunked thats going to be my answer!

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    September 26, 2003 at 5:48 pm #257611

    Pure 100% baloney.

    rivereyes
    Osceola, Wisconsin
    Posts: 2782
    September 27, 2003 at 12:06 am #257709

    its an old old theory or excuse… no truth to it at all… their teeth dont fall out….

    MikeHuppert
    Western Wisconsin
    Posts: 37
    September 27, 2003 at 2:54 am #257539

    Thanks guys, what you’re saying is like telling me for the first time there’s not a Santa Clause. What will I tell the family when I come home skunked? Well, I have news for you guys, I did catch one with no teeth the other day, if it had teeth I couldn’t see them, then I let the ole sucker go!

    jeff-patrick
    Fort Atkinson, WI
    Posts: 2128
    September 27, 2003 at 3:09 am #257541

    Maybe it’s true, I have’nt caught a walleye in a few weeks. But then again maybe the snakeheads are eating them.

    lenny_jamison
    Bay City , WI
    Posts: 4001
    September 27, 2003 at 4:18 am #258736

    My grandfather used to tell me that northern’s teeth fell out in the summer.

    Gator Hunter

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    September 27, 2003 at 9:01 am #257476

    I hope im still fishing when im toothless!!

    rmartin
    United States
    Posts: 1434
    September 27, 2003 at 10:55 am #257477

    Try throwing some soft baits at those toothless walleyes and pike!

    orca
    Red Wing, MN
    Posts: 110
    September 27, 2003 at 12:08 pm #257463

    If you believe that, I would love to take you snipe hunting…

    wade_kuehl
    Northwest Iowa
    Posts: 6167
    September 27, 2003 at 3:00 pm #257449

    If that old feller’s been around long enough to tell that story, I’d stick close. You’ll want to be in ear shot when he starts telling the truth.

    Never miss an opportunity to learn.

    Jeremiah Shaver
    La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 4941
    September 28, 2003 at 3:54 pm #256995

    I used to love SNIPE hunting…>Did it all the time back when i was a boyscout!!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    September 29, 2003 at 12:05 pm #259768

    You guys didn’t snipe hunt in the fall (Oct) when thier wings fell off did you?

    rmartin
    United States
    Posts: 1434
    September 29, 2003 at 1:22 pm #258780

    Isn’t that the best time?

    rivereyes
    Osceola, Wisconsin
    Posts: 2782
    September 29, 2003 at 6:03 pm #256652

    I never went snipe hunting till their beaks froze OFF and their feet froze ON to the muck… then you just took a sack,and went out by the light of the full moon…. and….
    ooooops…. cant tell ALL the secrets of sniping!….

    dinosaur
    South St. Paul, Mn.
    Posts: 401
    September 29, 2003 at 7:28 pm #256465

    Along with the pillow case you needed a big stick to rap the ground with. The vibrations attracted them.

    stillakid2
    Roberts, WI
    Posts: 4603
    September 30, 2003 at 8:32 pm #277007

    You guys are killing me!

    greg-vandemark
    Wabasha Mn
    Posts: 1096
    September 30, 2003 at 9:25 pm #276934

    I personally have never seen a toothless walleye.
    But I have lost my teeth many a time trying to catch them
    The walleyes never lose there teeth.

    lenny_jamison
    Bay City , WI
    Posts: 4001
    October 1, 2003 at 4:08 am #277045

    You can’t see the toothless ones because they don’t eat when they are toothless. LOL

    Gator Hunter

    Whiskerkev
    Madison
    Posts: 3835
    October 1, 2003 at 12:36 pm #277062

    I caught a toothless walleye one time. This old timer looked at my catch and said it was a Buffalo.

    nubbinbuck
    Posts: 922
    October 1, 2003 at 2:13 pm #277082

    Northerns do lose their teeth. They aren’t able to sign up for a comprehensive dental plan.

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