Tiger muskie out of Devils Lake?

[Vollmer]

It looks a lot bigger in the picture on the table.

 

[Retired Educator]

I didn't look up the regs, too lazy I guess, but is the 48" requirement for just muskies or both the muskie and tiger muskie. Tiger muskie being a hybrid it might be possible to have different regs. Either way, that is a big fish.

 

[Walleye_Chaser]

Yes all musky must be 48" to keep in ND

 

[remm]

Has it always been 48" minimum? For some reason I remember it being somewhere in the 30-35" minimum to keep those tiger's on DL when I was younger. We used to catch a half dozen or so every year in the 90's, kept one once with some pike for pickling and cleaned it. The meat was blaze orange in color, not sure if it even made the pickling jar. Haven't got one for a few years now.

 

[Captain Ahab]

The population densities are crashing as we speak.

 

[Fly Carpin]

I messaged Lakeview on facebook and asked if they knew the length and they said it measured 48.5 on the ice.

Wonder how long it would've been if the minimum was 44"? Not saying it's convenient that it's half an inch longer than the minimum, but will say that does not look like a 48" fish

 

[snow]

Whole lot of funky smell in that cleaning shack,sure is a pretty tiger,they grow slow and are sterile so they don't reproduce.

 

[Fly Carpin]

Whole lot of funky smell in that cleaning shack,sure is a pretty tiger,they grow slow and are sterile so they don't reproduce.

Say what now? Since they're sterile they put all their energy towards growth. That's the appeal of stocking them. They reach larger sizes faster than a pure strain muskellunge

 

[snow]

state record tiger musky here in Minn is around 33lbs,stocked back in the 1990's,they grow 3x slower than pike or pure stain, leech lake strain record is around 55lbs last I checked.

 

[westwolfone]

Reading about Mille Lacs. Pretty sad. 26" Walleye looks like it's about 3 pounds.

 

[Buckmaster81]

that is an ugly walleye

 

[Kurtr]

more cheek meat than filet meat

 

[DirtyMike]

that is an ugly walleye

got that right.

 

[3Roosters]

If that is a 48 inch Musky, perhaps they used the sconi measuring device.... "close enuff". This "close enuff" measuring device pairs well with the famed wild game/fish/duck counting system..."we aren't over our limit" counting system.:;:muahaha

 

[dean nelson]

state record tiger musky here in Minn is around 33lbs,stocked back in the 1990's,they grow 3x slower than pike or pure stain, leech lake strain record is around 55lbs last I checked.

Best go back and check your data tigers grows considerably faster than pure strain that's why they are popular. They often hit 30 inches by the end of year two according to some of the data including some from mn!

As for this one it definitely looks to small in the first picture but OK in the second so who knows. Be easy for the game and fish to tell with those two pics to give concrete objects to measure against. I'm more curious if these were line caught because if so that's one hell of a day and a happy day for a bunch of ten inch eyes that will now not turn into dinner for a pike.

 

[NDSportsman]

Sure looks 48" to me. I mean if that door is 30" it would appear to be at least 48". Aren't those counters 24" wide? Looks to be twice as long as that counter. Pics are really deceiving.

Oh and Tigers grow faster then pure strain but don't get as big.

 

[Captain Ahab]

To me the fish looks like a 43-44 inch specimen, but I could be mistaken.

 

[Pinecone]

air conditioner was in use

 

[Sum1]

Tigers grow faster and die younger and don't get as big as pures. Stop with the tiger stocking and go pure. Tigers are a waste of fish stocking funds. All musky stocking should be pure IMO.

 

[martinslanding]

I guess I wouldn't be posting pics on the interweb without a tape measure next to it....if they even knew it was a muskie...could go either way...