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.

 

[S&W Fan]

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.

Make a day trip to Otisco Lake with your son and you can catch all the Tigers you want. There is also exceptional large mouth bass fishing there , as well as walleye.

 

[Saltwater60]

Make a day trip to Otisco Lake with your son and you can catch all the Tigers you want. There is also exceptional large mouth bass fishing there , as well as walleye.

Thanks. I should do that. Maybe this fall or next spring I’ll do that. This year the budget is kind of tight and I’d want to make a weekend of it and rent a boat.

 

[Podmonkey]

Catching a big ol muskie liken that is on my bucket list. Congrats to your grandson! That is a serious angling achievement!

 

[Saltwater60]

Catching a big ol muskie liken that is on my bucket list. Congrats to your grandson! That is a serious angling achievement!

My suggestion is not to bring it in the boat if you do. It was a mess when we brought the one I caught into the boat. If you have those harness type nets cool, but we didn’t.

 

[Robin]

Catching a big ol muskie liken that is on my bucket list. Congrats to your grandson! That is a serious angling achievement!

He was very, very excited. The way the hook was imbedded he had to cut it off and then he returned the fish to the creek, all done like a pro. I think I was more impressed with the way he handled things than the fish itself, though that was pretty impressive.
Robin