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Location: Minnesota | Do they bite after dark like a pure strain or not as typical like a pike? |
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Location: on a musky lake | well from what ive seen they bite after dark. i live next to a lake with tiger muskies in it and when walleye fishing in the spring we've caught a few of them. so it seems like they would if you kept at it but honestly i cant say
Edited by muskyyoungster 3/3/2007 8:53 PM
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Sometimes, but not nearly as much as a true strain.
Soome of the guides here on the madison chain catch a few after dark. If the lake had nothing but tigers, I wouldn't do a whole lot of fishing for them after dark. |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Bass fishing in a lake here in southern W.Va. about 6 years ago I was "bit off" 4 times in 1 night throwing 8" Zoom lizards with 1/4 oz. worm weights for largemouth. The lake has tiger musky in it and I've caught them there up to 37 1/2" and have seen a 43 1/2 " tiger caught in the same lake.I'm sure that's what bit me off. A man in Beckley W.Va. suppose to have caught a 50 7/8" musky from this lake in '97 or '98 ( can't remember for sure) , made the newspapers around here but for some reason his name is not in the books as a state record but it was larger then the fish listed in the state records. The man's name is Kerry Hatcher. |
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Location: Minnesota | so all of those were after dark Mauser? |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | CGA, you have to remember that in those steep hollers in West Virginia, they only get daylight between 10 and 2. m |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | The ones in my tank would eat at night. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Ya know, I haven't fished for them at night much since I experience neither the angling pressure nor temperature senarios that mainly drive people to fish at night. I have no doubt that had I spent as much time after dark fishing for them as I do during the daylight hours, I would have a few night-time tigers under my belt. I have caught a few prior to sun up, not dark in the strictest sense, but definately under much reduced lighting.
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Location: nationwide | I have had this discussion with other anglers and I have not caught a hybrid after dark in almost 20 years of night fishing. In this time I have only caught maybe a half dozen northern pike after dark as well. Nobody I talked to has caught a hybrid after dark either and it sure seems wierd that over time I have not tangled with one after dark. Most of my fishing in this time period has been fishing the Chippewa Flowage, which does have a decent population of hybrids so the possibility should be there.
Now watch I will catch five hybrids this year after dark!!!!!!!!
Corey Meyer |
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| Same as Corey here. Fish the Chip and have never caught one after dark. We catch lots during the day though. Lots meaning about ten per year. So maybe lots is the wrong word.
Ty |
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| I fish a stocked tiger lake here in illinois just about every weekend and have not caught one after dark --- like Mr sorenson we have caught them in low light conditions like right before sun-up and at sundown but not one in the dark. I'm also in that group wondering why that is?
mike |
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| I've read that pike have weaker vision compared to muskies, perhaps the tigers get their vision from the pike side of their genetics? |
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| We have one of the biggest tiger programs in the country 18-22 stocked tiger lakes here in the twin cities,,Tigers were originally cheaper to raise because of pelet feed and the thought that there would be alot of harvesting in an Urban area,,,Ive never heard of anybody doing much good on tigers at night,,,some variables to this WHAT kind of water quality are the people catching them in at night, Most tiger lakes here are shallow and murky which would be about the same clarity has chip flowage where they dont bite at night either,,, maybe their eyesight allows them at night to hunt only in clear water systems. |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | The lake does have a lot of fishing pressure on it , this may be the reason they were hitting after dark. I have never caughrt a musky after dark but I'm sure that was what was cutting my line.
Mauser |
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Tiger Muskies??