Musky's Lunch?
Posted 09-26-2009 at 05:10 PM by musky107
Muskies are slash and get feeders, correct?
The above pictures are of a shad that surfaced beside my boat one day last fall. As you can see this shad was injured by a toothy critter, presumably a musky. Keep in mind that most shad in Ohio at this time of year are 4 to 6 inches, this one is almost 10 inches. It was still alive so I took a couple of pictures and put it back in the water. I watched it fight to regain it's stability but was also busy testing lures so I didn’t actually see what happened next. I was casting a buck tail and hoping to see what had hit the shad when there was a sucking sound from where the shad had been. A tub sized swirl was all I got to see. I know it could have been anything, but I like to think that musky would have made my day!
There was once a lure made to look very much like the shad but they stopped producing it several years ago. I hear it's coming back.
The above pictures are of a shad that surfaced beside my boat one day last fall. As you can see this shad was injured by a toothy critter, presumably a musky. Keep in mind that most shad in Ohio at this time of year are 4 to 6 inches, this one is almost 10 inches. It was still alive so I took a couple of pictures and put it back in the water. I watched it fight to regain it's stability but was also busy testing lures so I didn’t actually see what happened next. I was casting a buck tail and hoping to see what had hit the shad when there was a sucking sound from where the shad had been. A tub sized swirl was all I got to see. I know it could have been anything, but I like to think that musky would have made my day!
There was once a lure made to look very much like the shad but they stopped producing it several years ago. I hear it's coming back.
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Slurping usually means a channel cat. They'll tear up shad when they find them. Recall a post a couple years ago by Doctor...there was a massive shad kill at CJ Brown, the whole marina was covered with floating shad. In a week or so, the channel cats came in there and cleaned it all up.Posted 10-13-2009 at 07:16 PM by big_b16 
