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| What strain is this muskie?
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Location: Lincoln UK | over-strained. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | What dfiference does it make?
Is it less of a muskie if it is one or the other? |
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| It really doesn't make any diffrence!
This muskie was caught in November of 2003 in Lake Harriet Minneapolis, MN. It sure looks a lot like a WI strain to me but that would be weird since it was 42" long and WI strain were last stocked in Harriet in the early '80s.
It could be a WI strain that grows super slow or an offspring of two of the WI fish stocked in the '80s(unlikely in a metro lake with massive milfoil infestation and a stunted panfish population)or it could be a LL strain fish that looks like a WI strain.
I thought it was intresting because of all of the talk of massive WI strain fish in Mille Lacs. Are they without question WI strain fish?
Edited by DJS 9/24/2006 4:57 PM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | DJS,
Dave Neuswanger recently posted some pertinent information to that question that pretty well seals the deal here:
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=28...
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The fish looks exactly like the fish I catch from Pelican here in Oneida County, WI. Could it be the result of minimal NR? A cross between Leech and WI? A very oddly marked Leech fish? Not sure from the photo, but the fish looks distinctly barred, not spotted..nice fish, by the way! |
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| It could be the result of minimal NR but then the WI fish from the mid '80s would have to have gained sexual maturity and then produced a 42" muskie in 20 years. Is that possible in a MN metro lake with an extremely high density population?
I did see Dave N's post on the other thread and yes the WI fish got BIG. They were tagged and there was no mistaking what strain they were. The fish from this year's tournament weren't tagged and can't be identified as WI strain without question much like this Harriet fish can't be identified as a WI starin a LL strain or a cross between the two. It seems we should be careful to assume that all the fish in Mille Lacs that look like WI strain are just that. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | No one is. Relax. The short answer to your question is yes, 20 years could get that done.
The point was that the WI strain DID get very big, and that there's obviously nothing wrong with those fish as far as their ability to hit mid 50" class.
There's no doubt still WI strain in Mille Lacs, maybe some NR, and maybe that strain will be around for awhile there. Nothing wrong with that, as long as the LL and WI strain 'get along'. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Thats hard to tell by looking at it. I don't think anyone can say with any certainty what strain a fish is by looking at it.
Pfeiff
Edited by Don Pfeiffer 10/16/2006 10:57 PM
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