Muskie
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No not on a fly… but I tried!
http://www.trophyfishingtn.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=25&pid=738&slideshow=5000
i was always led to believe that the tiger musky which got stocked in many southern rivers a few decades ago for the most part didn’t take?
Mike,
While in AK this summer, our guide took us to a secluded spot where the pike were stacked up in the grass. We threw big mouse patterns with the flyrod and caught some nice ones…..of course the buzzbaits/spinning gear worked best.
We had been catching silver salmon all morning, but the pike were much more fun! Twitch the mouse and watch the v-shaped wake as the fish came toward the mouse. They would come from as far as 20 feet away. The vibrations seem to put them into a frenzy. I could here the theme from Jaws playing in my head. ;D
They ain’t muskie but darn close!!!
PS….great slideshow by the way!
Drifter I love fly fishing as much as the next guy but sometimes you gotta swallow your pride and go with what works. Sounds like you guys had a fun trip. My dream is to go to AK for a month or more someday.
Carter I don’t think these are Tiger Muskie. TWRA does show that they stock Muskie
thats incredibly cool, and a damn nice fish, I wish they would stock some more of those things over this way.
Yea I think these fish should be stocked anywhere that can support them.
Yes, that is my biggest to date.
Got any suggestions?
In my experience hillbillies are gonna do what they want to do anyway, I’d just save yourself the breath.
So, and I’m not asking you to give away the location, are these things feeding on stocker rainbow trout?
You know if they migrate far enough up some of the lakes feeder creeks they will eventually run into stocked waters. However these waters are only stocked during the spring and I wouldn’t expect there to be many holdovers due to the bucket brigades. One other location I have yet to explore is a main feeder to a very large reservoir that is stocked heavily with Trout and Muskie. I expect to find lake run Rainbows, Browns, and a healthy population of Muskie here. Not to mention the Smallmouth. I’m talking about Dale Hollow, home of the world record Smallie.
it sounds like Tennessee is doing a bang up job with their stocking programs.
oh, and don’t you mean its the home of both the world record smallies….
Muskie are native to Tennessee but the Dams have pretty much wiped them out. I think Pike are an all together different story from what I’ve read. I’ve not read where Muskie have caused the same problems that Pike have. I don’t know what the difference is, maybe spawning success?
I’m not going to say Muskie won’t do any damage but the best Tailwaters in TN and KY are chock full of Striper. I have first hand knowledge that Striper have an ravenous appetite for Rainbows and Browns :-?. Yet despite the predation that takes place we sill have a thriving Trout population in these tailwaters.
I think Blue Heron’s do more damage to our fishery then anything in the natural world but nobody ever indiscriminately kills them. They do have a nice looking set of feathers though.Mike I’ve never pulled the trigger on one but I’ve seen (no lie) several dozen GBHs dropped with various too-large firearms.
Zach I wish they would give permits to kill those things. Sometimes it seems as if there’s a GBH every 100 yards on most of the rivers around here. I’ve been to one of our spring creeks and caught fish after fish with GBH battle scares. No wonder Trout natural reproduction is so rare!
BD my guess is that since the Caney runs into Cumberland that Muskie were probably already in the Caney, now Centerhill lake naturally. I would love to know the areas that do get stocked if any. Region 4 has a very nice web page with all the stocking plans. Our region does not have a page like this yet. I hope there are plans to have one in the future.
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