rw wrote:
Chas Wade wrote:

I also watched some pike
spawning in the shallows and saw one grab a muskrat that was
swimming
too close. A second muskrat came to the rescue, bit the pike, and
she
released the muskrat.

Weird. I would never have guessed something like that could happen.

Indeed. At first I wasn't sure who had grabbed whom, but when the
second muskrat came to the rescue it was clear. This same pair of
muskrats was swimming back and forth across the little inlet to a rock
5 feet in front of where I was standing casting to the pike. When I
moved up to their rock they just used the rock I'd moved from. Somehow
they weren't afraid of me at all.

Chas
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