muskie difficult to catch?

[Lee Borgersen]

              "Muskies are notoriously difficult to catch...until they aren't."

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That's the crew from MeatEater talking about a dude who caught a muskie on his Vexilar TRANSDUCER.... Legit can't make this stuff up!
 
 

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> ...all of a sudden, Ben's flasher slid across the ice house floor and wedged in the ice hole. Ben grabbed the sonar unit and pulled back, revealing a huge fish hanging onto the transducer just below the surface. Ben inched up the transducer cable, and the fish's head came into view through the hole. Jon snatched a gill plate and pulled out a 50" muskie dead-set on consuming that transducer. Even after coming through the hole and laying on the ice, the muskie continued to chomp on Ben's electronics.


> "We couldn't believe it was happening. It was honestly a minute and a half before that thing let go. I kind of tickled its mouth a little hoping it would open up and it didn't."

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Even crazier is it was caught in a lake that's not supposed to have muskies. The fish would've had to travel approx 6 miles as the crow flies the muskie swims through 2 other lakes, creeks and channels to even get there in the first place.


Btw - I couldn't agree more with MeatEater's Joe Cermele, who says that trophy muskie are only caught through total dedication or blind luck. There is no middle ground. "You're either utterly devoted to the pursuit of them, in which case you'll find success through obsession. Or you catch muskies by completely not trying." HAHAHA!
 

[glenn57]

I've heard of fish hitting these underwater cameras that the end in the water is shaped like a fish.

I've had fish bump my camera but never tried to eat it. Mine however is not fish shaped.

[dutchboy]

Did they say what lake or what they were fishing for? Be quite the feat to drag that thru a 6" hole.

[mike89]

if it's the fish I'm thinking of it was caught on a lake just west of Alex...