#muskellunge

[plushstarrs]

One of my best thrift store finds, Cabin Critters Muskellunge!

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina. February 1965. Illustration by Duane Raver Jr.

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[fishenjoyer1]

Fish of the Day

Today's fish of the day is the muskellunge!

The muskellunge, also called a musky, lunge, ski, and scientific name Esox masquinongy, is known for being the largest species of pike. Muskellunge can be found around the rivers of Michigan, specifically the Great Lakes region, Canadian waters, St Lawrence River, and around the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. Outside of their natural range, they can also be found around the Tennessee river, South Carolina rivers, and as far South as Upper Georgia, where they are kept stocked intentionally for recreational fishing. They live around clean and clear waters with little silt, preferring to surround themselves with aquatic vegetation and weeds. This is because they tend to lurk near weedy shores and rocky outcroppings, although they can be found in deeper waters during the summer.

The diet of the muskie is made up primarily of other fish, although they will also eat: frogs, water birds, rats, and other animals that can be found in and around their environments. On rare occasions, muskellunge have been reported attacking dogs and children They attack other animals in an ambush, where the muskie will swiftly bite and swallow, not allowing any time for prey to fight back or escape. They can get as large as 50 inches in length, but there are claims of fish getting as large as 6ft. They have few predators, only large birds, such as bald eagles, other larger muskellunge or pike, and human fishing. With human fish thought to be the cause of their declining numbers.

Similar to other pikes, the muskellunge form small schools, and will claim territories that they fiercely defend, only becoming more aggressive during the breeding season. They spawn in the spring, like other pike, finding clean rocks or sandy bottomed rivers to lay their eggs. Spawning is only around a week to two weeks in length, and eggs are abandoned almost immediately. Once born, juveniles are only a few cm in length, but can get as large as 12 inches by their first year of life, and can get as old as 12-18 years.

That's the muskie fish, have a good day, everyone!

[ruby-lith]

fishfishfish

[basil-kat]

If no one got me I know he got me

[woodsdyke]

now for something entirely different. hands you this tiger muskellunge (it is quite large and damp. sorry)

[hoovse-art]

In the state between waking and dreaming I thought about the combination of a mustelid and a muskellunge, so behold the mustellunge!

[mackeralsauce]

fibsh

based on a muskie i caught in webfishing:

[i-give-you-a-fish]

hi can i have a fish!!!!!

You get a Muskellunge

Esox masquinongy

[fouroclockwren]

My upper midwestern/north-american-ness is showing because the episode of river monsters I’m watching is about muskies in Canada and my immediate knee jerk response was “wtf do you mean there’s a musky episode on river monsters, muskies is just normal fish”

Jeremy Wade over there showing off this 4ft long fish with huge teeth and instead of going “wow that’s cool as hell” like I have with all the other species I’ve seen on this show so far, my brain is just like “ohey dat’s da guy who lives on da walls at da bars upnort”

[artofhitjim]

Anyone for a bike ride?

[banefolk]

Mab’s Drawlloween Day 9: Finfolk

“Mussie”

Mussie is my local lake monster said to lurk in the depths of Muskrat Lake in the Ottawa Valley with documented sightings dating to 1906, but with claims dating to the early 1600s. I think Mussie is a muskie or muskellunge —a giant carnivorous fish species of the Great Lakes region similar to a pike that can grow as big or bigger than a man and who’s been known to chomp on one every now and then.

[kelpro]

PIKEMAN

PIKEMAN

[laziestgirlintown]

Did you know that this is a bit like Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!?

- In terms of this poll, if you're a bumblebee, you're my family

In the novel, all people appointed (for instance) bumblebee will always have a bumblebee family.

Like all utopias, turns out it isn't quite utopian

(per an old Slapstick family generator, back when internet internetted and search engines found, I'm: Muskellunge-11. Just in case there are any relatives out there)

I need to run a survey really quick. This isn't serious, but I need people to cooperate and not cheat for the sake of it because it'll skew the results.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and you realize you (and everyone else in the world) can turn into an animal (And back into a human) at will.

Please go to this link to see what animal it will be for you:

(this is random, and yes, you only get one, no redos)

With this in mind, please reply to the following questions as truthfully as possible based on your current situation. (Not an ideal fantasy one.)

[ruby-lith]

[xols-ex-girlfriend]

Reading an essay about fish etymology and decided to look up the etymology of one of my faves

Why the Ojibway gotta do my fav Muskie like that