Tiger Muskie

[Robin]

My grandson caught a tiger muskie about 20" long in Conesus creek yesterday. Pretty cool!!!! To look at it you wouldn't think there was so much as a minnow in there but that kid will fish a mud puddle and catch something.
Robin

 

[FP1201]

Good for him!
It's odd how places you'd swear would be full of fish and they're not, and drainage canals are full of monsters...
Sandy Creek runs through the Village and outside of minnows, I've never in 33 yeas of living here seen a single fish in it...above the little Hydro-Electric Dam the DEC releases Trout, but they usually don't travel that far down...to me it looks like a great Trout Stream, but not so to the Fish.

 

[S&W Fan]

Good for him!
It's odd how places you'd swear would be full of fish and they're not, and drainage canals are full of monsters...
Sandy Creek runs through the Village and outside of minnows, I've never in 33 yeas of living here seen a single fish in it...above the little Hydro-Electric Dam the DEC releases Trout, but they usually don't travel that far down...to me it looks like a great Trout Stream, but not so to the Fish.

When I was a kid my father would take me and my brother to a spot on Little Sandy Creek that looked as though it couldn’t hold a chub , but we would catch black bass all day long there.

 

[S&W Fan]

He must have thought that he had a monster on the line. Tiger Muskie are a riot to catch. They are strong and pull hard on the line, a great fight ! There is a tournament on Otisco Lake every year that I used to go to. There are some True monster Tigers in that Lake!
One of my fishing buddies won an ice fishing tournament one year for pulling a huge 50” Tiger through a 8” auger hole. He literally had to wiggle it back and forth up out of the hole.

 

[Saltwater60]

Once I was fishing Labor Day morning about 15 years ago. I was trolling on a boat and I caught about a 46” tiger Muskie. We drifted back to where I caught it by the time I reeled it in. Popped the mute back in and caught about a 28-30” regular Muskie. Two Muskies back to back, I’ll die before that ever happens again.
That must have been awesome for the little guy to catch. Glad he landed it because the ones that get away haunt you.