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| During the Trout opener in the U.P., we paddled up a mile on a river to a beaver dam and portaged over. The second cast , I got this non-trout 25" or so monster. The river eventually empties into Lake Michigan but the distance is, probably close to a 100 miles or so. There are musky lakes in the area, but none drain into the river system. My question is, how do you think it got there? A biologist friend thought it would be from a duck like the American Merganser that picked up a fertilized egg from one of the Musky lakes. Another thought it was Johnny Muskyseed. Ideas?
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| I vote for Johnny Muskieseed |
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| 100 miles is not really that far. A while back a kid here in Ashwaubenon brought into school a tagged walleye he caught in a creek right in the middle of the village. It had a Michigan DNR tag. I'm not suggesting this is the rule but not at all impossible either.
Edited by greenduck 5/24/2007 12:12 PM
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| The real question is, how'd you get George Bush Jr. as a fishing partner? |
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois | Good one Heibs! |
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| Which river? That fish is small enough to get through just about any beaver dam. It came from the lake.
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | The Muskie Bandito's get my vote. |
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| To my knowledge there aren't any lakes feeding into the river and it's headwaters are springs. I released him below the beaver dam for a life of feeding on native brook trout. H-mmmm I wonder how he would have tasted after a diet like that? Just kidding. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Go muskyseed! |
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Location: nationwide | With a diet of brook trout I want to fish for it in a few years!!!!!!!
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Location: Ontario, California | Maybe it was George W. Bush in the background that started a stocking program |
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| Some muskies can travel 100 miles or more, and it looks like it is from Lake Michigan |
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Location: WESTERN WI | Johnny Muskieseed Stikes again!!! |
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Location: oswego, il | Thta is a small fish. Granted I have seen them that size travel a few miles up the creek in shabbona before they opened it to fishing but I wonder if that one hatched where you caught it. Maybe the merganser, maybe a sibling of a jonnhy muskieseed planting. |
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Location: Belleville, WI | Either way, cute little fish! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Funny looking trout you caught there, Art! |
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