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Location: Athens, Ohio | Congrats are in order for WV MI Chapter 9 member Chase Gibson for dragging a 54 inch, 39.6 pound muskie from Burnsville Lake. Now certified as the new length record officially, it was released. Chase now has his own guide service and I'm sure his phone will be busy. m
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Edited by mikie 5/3/2021 5:25 PM
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| Great looking fish. Grays to Chase. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Post also on MI Facebook.
MuskieFIRST Article:
https://www.outdoorsfirst.com/muskie/article/probable-new-wv-record-... |
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Location: NorthCentral WI | Absolutely beautiful specimen. A reproduction would definitely be on order. |
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| Magnificent fish. Well done and congratulations.
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| Glad to see him with a WV record musky. He is a very good musky fisherman that puts in the time on the water.
Burnsville gets overlooked because Stonewall is just up the road, but it holds some nice fish. |
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Location: Perryville, MO | What a gorgeous beast! Congrats. |
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| Beautiful fish  |
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| Beautiful fish |
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| Great fish congratulations. |
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| Great fish. Curious, are the West Virginia fish stocked, natural reproduction or combination? |
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| WV fish are stocked. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Actually, yes and no. There were native muskies in WV streams long before the dams got built. Three distinct sub-species were identified. WV DNR started a program a couple years ago of not stocking in order to see if there may be evidence of natural reproduction in some waters. Most reservoir fish you find likely came from a hatchery. m |
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| mikie - 5/6/2021 12:44 PM
Actually, yes and no. There were native muskies in WV streams long before the dams got built. Three distinct sub-species were identified. WV DNR started a program a couple years ago of not stocking in order to see if there may be evidence of natural reproduction in some waters. Most reservoir fish you find likely came from a hatchery. m
Interesting. Wonder what they will find. Hope they get enough funding to complete the study, that is always a challenge in government funded programs. |
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