Weird Pike/Muskie Behavior

[tcon]

Yeah it kind of sounded legit to me Brad... .

Tom

[BLOCKHEAD]

saw one thursday on ibay.

[old man]

i've seen a lot of this all over. no idea why they do it,but they never eat. i just call it taunting.

[BlueEye]

Found a good video of this behavior:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/minneapolis ... 83222.html

[Traveling Circus]

Saw a pike doing this today at Oak Orchard Creek...... He was totally oblivious to us, and within nettin' distance of the boat while under way......

[rnsurfnturf]

On Otisco sunday 10/10....

We chased a tiger close to 40" doing this for over an hour!

He was going up and down like a dolphin opening his mouth each time like he was gulping air...then he would disappear and show up a few yards away.

I got a not so good pic of him next to the boat when he actually followed my buddy's swim bait...but other than that we threw everyhting at him ...not interested...got some real good looks of him though.....

Everybody has a theory but I wonder if hes trying to gulp air to help get a large panfish down that lodged in his throat?