Whooper of a fish tale
- Thread starter Ragman
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Nice fish! Too bad they killed it. Would have loved to have seen that fish released. Then again, after a two hour fight it may not have survived anyway. That is one of the problems of hooking really big fish on light lines.
Michigan is FULL of muskie. Lake St. Clair is famous for it's muskie fishing. What is not as well known is that the Detroit River and Lake Erie have just as good or better muskie fishing, at certain times of the year, than St. Clair does.
Michigan is FULL of muskie. Lake St. Clair is famous for it's muskie fishing. What is not as well known is that the Detroit River and Lake Erie have just as good or better muskie fishing, at certain times of the year, than St. Clair does.
The Arkansas Game and Fish put a few tiger muskie in a public fishing lake down here a few years ago. It is a great bass fishing lake. Those muskie made for some good "the one that got away" stories...lol. They've played with and then ripped the line out of a few bass reels...lol.
Michigan played around with "tiger muskie" for a while, but ended up dropping the program. A "tiger muskie" is a hybrid fish, a mix of a northern pike and a muskie. They do occur in nature but Michigan tried 'producing' them in a hatchery setting. They wanted to use them to control over population of pan fish in some lakes. A good choice because they are normally sterile. It did not pan out. It was expensive and they never could eat enough of the stunted pan fish to do the job.
Michigan then went to netting/electrofishing and even a far as to drain stunted lakes.
Tigers were a RIOT to fish for. They would hit ANYTHING! They grew fast, about 1.5 times faster than a pure muskie. I used to spear them through the ice.