Did you read this part?:
"The much-maligned muskie (the Big Bad Wolf to your Little Red Riding Hood of the fish world), is the biggest, baddest, most reclusive and elusive freshwater fish there is.
You know how the dog days of summer are just about over? They last all season for muskies, who prowl shoreline shallows picking off small dogs, ducks and other critters that stray too close to the water. If you’ve ever watched a baby duckling that lags too far behind its mother and disappear without as much as a peep or a splash, you know what I’m talking about. They’ll also grab a merganser, munch a mallard, and chomp a red-winged blackbird off a cattail a couple of feet above the water.
Part of Wisconsin’s charm and culture is cultivating these horror stories (Esox fables?) about big muskies snapping poodles out of boats while they’re leaning over, admiring their reflection in the water. Some time ago, a guy in Hayward allegedly caught a big muskie when he dangled his foot in the water over the side of his boat, and got bit. If you ask me, he was asking for it. And so was that little dog, too."
Go ahead - dangle that twinkie over the side of the boat. I dare 'ya.
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