";s:4:"text";s:3196:" Best move use pliers. A Winnipeg woman is healing at home after being left with significant injuries in a rare musky attack near Minaki, Ont., last weekend. "It's very exciting. She says it may be some time before she works up the confidence to go in the water again.“I’m going to go back out this weekend, but I have no intentions of swimming,” Driver said.Muskies, the largest member of the pike family, are a species of fish that are sought after by many anglers and can grow over 50 inches long. The Kenora OPP say on July 28, police executed a search warrant as part of an… They’re rare to catch and are often referred to as the “fish of 10,000 casts.”Darcy Cox, who runs Tank Industries Guide Service out of Kenora, Ont., says people getting bit by muskies is rare, and an attack like this is even more rare.He says often when people get bit, they usually only have a hand in the water or are dangling their feet in the water off the dock.“That’s an extremely unusual incident if half or three quarters of her body was in the water — crazy that that even happened,” Cox said.“For sure (it was) a giant musky. It marked the second time in six weeks that a person was bitten by something in the water on Island Lake.
The complicated thing about alligator attacks is that they aren't always classified as such since the animal can attack but harm the person in another way, much like the toddler this week. Winnipeg woman injured in ‘extremely unusual’ Ontario fish attack: ‘It pulled me under’ Jon Olson, a fisherman from Kenora, Ont., has a fish tale few can top.Olson was competing in the Kenora Bass International fishing tournament last weekend when he dipped his toes in the water before the weigh-in.He said he felt a tug, yelled, and pulled a muskie out of the lake, its teeth clamped to his foot.At first, Olson thought someone was literally pulling his leg. "All of a sudden something come up and grabbed my foot and I kinda just yelled and jerked my foot away," he said. "I know it's just a freak accident. The health unit is changing the way they report new cases of the coronavirus.
"We were all right beside her. She was standing in the water, which was not very deep," said Marcy McNally, one of the resort's owners.Ironically, she said, the woman doesn't usually go in the water, and had done so only because it was an exceptionally hot day.McNally believes the muskie is the same one that's been caught and released in that part of the river before.
In that time, she never had a problem with muskies, but that all changed last weekend, when she was pulled under by a muskie.However, the hot humid weather last Saturday persuaded her to go for a dip in the Winnipeg River.