06-23-2003, 07:23 PM
[cool]While that feat may sound prepostorous, it is not impossible. There are many entries in the "10 to 1" club...catching fish that are ten times the size of the rating of the line used to catch them. I've done that for both stripers and salmon...and came close with halibut.
There have been a lot of toothy northerns and muskies taken on light line, while fishing for other species. It is usually a matter of both skill and luck to get them in, since hooking them without a wire leader usually means a short tussle. But, if you hang them in the corner of the jaw...or on the tip of the snout, as I did with a 16 pound northern on 6# line in Yuba, you can get them in.
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I ate the walleyes in the bucket, but had a resin cast mount of the northern.
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There have been a lot of toothy northerns and muskies taken on light line, while fishing for other species. It is usually a matter of both skill and luck to get them in, since hooking them without a wire leader usually means a short tussle. But, if you hang them in the corner of the jaw...or on the tip of the snout, as I did with a 16 pound northern on 6# line in Yuba, you can get them in.
I ate the walleyes in the bucket, but had a resin cast mount of the northern.
TubeDude
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