My first decent pike (for my area)
Nov 5, 2019 15:47:59 #
Rod is Daiwa crossfire 2.4m 20-60g, medium hard action, reel is also Daiwa crossfire 3000 E: if anyone cares :D
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by zoomforestzoom
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by zoomforestzoom
Nov 5, 2019 15:48:13 #
Vertical stripes, spotted tail. Looks a tiger musky to me, friend. Congrats!
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by Krazy_the_Face
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by Krazy_the_Face
Nov 5, 2019 15:48:19 #
Oh crap really? Haha that's embarrassing. Thanks for correcting me, i really have a hard time differentiating them, and i though my waters didn't have muskies
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by zoomforestzoom
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by zoomforestzoom
Nov 5, 2019 15:48:27 #
I only know because I made the exact same mistake lol
Your water probably has a stocking plan, that's how I got mine. They're a sterile hybrid of northern pike and musky. That there is about a yr old. They'll bust 40" easy when grown.
"Embarrassing" is tossing it in your garden pond because you thought it was an 18" pickerel" lol. Whoops.
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by Krazy_the_Face
Your water probably has a stocking plan, that's how I got mine. They're a sterile hybrid of northern pike and musky. That there is about a yr old. They'll bust 40" easy when grown.
"Embarrassing" is tossing it in your garden pond because you thought it was an 18" pickerel" lol. Whoops.
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by Krazy_the_Face
Nov 5, 2019 16:41:09 #
FS Digest wrote:
I only know because I made the exact same mistake lol
Your water probably has a stocking plan, that's how I got mine. They're a sterile hybrid of northern pike and musky. That there is about a yr old. They'll bust 40" easy when grown.
"Embarrassing" is tossing it in your garden pond because you thought it was an 18" pickerel" lol. Whoops.
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by Krazy_the_Face
Your water probably has a stocking plan, that's how I got mine. They're a sterile hybrid of northern pike and musky. That there is about a yr old. They'll bust 40" easy when grown.
"Embarrassing" is tossing it in your garden pond because you thought it was an 18" pickerel" lol. Whoops.
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by Krazy_the_Face
One way of cleaning the others out.
Nov 5, 2019 18:37:28 #
My first thought was "that looks more like a musky than a pike". Didn't know about the hybrid. There are no pike in California. Some genius decided it would be a great idea to introduce them into Lake Davis. Go online and check it out. They poisoned the lake and killed all the fish to eradicate the pike. The fear was that they would infiltrate the rivers and wipe out the trout and salmon. The little town of Portola was hit pretty hard economically, because they rely on people showing up there to fish the lake. It was a huge mess.
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Nov 5, 2019 20:31:18 #
akfisher wrote:
Not a huge Musky but decent! They get a lot bigger!
Sir that is no slouch!
Nice thanks for sharing.
Nov 5, 2019 20:51:12 #
Nov 5, 2019 22:24:01 #
Guys my grandad was a icefisher in the winter and a musky hunter in summer. He spent his whole life in pursuit of the illusive muskelunge, and I believe he caught one in all that time. Now this was 70 or 80 or even 90 years ago. Have the techniques/gear improved that much since those days? Or was he just a lousy fisherman? Is that why they call em "unicorns"? He fished mostly Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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