10-27-2016, 12:08 PM
[#0000FF]I love and respect all fish...including those toothy critters. But I seldom fish for them on purpose. However, over the years I have had quite a few "encounters" with them...mostly while fishing for other species. Sometimes they hit the lures I am using. Other times they try to abscond with the other species I am reeling in. Always fun and unexpected.
I have landed several pike and muskies on the six pound mono (co-filament) I use...Silver Thread Excalibur. It is extremely abrasion resistant. I started using it when fishing waters with flathead catfish in Arizona about 15 years ago. Used to lose a lot of them to abraded line. Never lost another one after I began using the Excalibur.
Here is a pic of another tiger muskie I brought up from the bottom at Pineview...in 45 feet of water. This one ate a small jig with worm on it that I was also fishing for crappies and perch. The jig was well inside the tooth zone and the fish jumped two or three times before I was able to subdue it. As you can see in the picture, the line is still intact.
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I have landed several pike and muskies on the six pound mono (co-filament) I use...Silver Thread Excalibur. It is extremely abrasion resistant. I started using it when fishing waters with flathead catfish in Arizona about 15 years ago. Used to lose a lot of them to abraded line. Never lost another one after I began using the Excalibur.
Here is a pic of another tiger muskie I brought up from the bottom at Pineview...in 45 feet of water. This one ate a small jig with worm on it that I was also fishing for crappies and perch. The jig was well inside the tooth zone and the fish jumped two or three times before I was able to subdue it. As you can see in the picture, the line is still intact.
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