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Location: Iowa | This is a fish a buddy of mine caught and we have kind of been wondering whether or not it is a Hybrid or a Pure Strain...we intially thought it was a pure strain but the more I look at it the more I think it is a Hybrid...what do you guys think...it was a he!! of a fish either way...
Big Perc
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Not ... just a real pretty one |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | Nope, not a tiger. Tail looks pointed. |
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| Beautiful fish and not a tiger. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | not - fins are pointed |
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| 100% not - Its a barred muskie like this one:
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| IAJustin - 6/3/2010 12:42 PM
100% not - Its a barred muskie like this one:
looks spotted to me. Probably a GB fish? |
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looks spotted to me. Probably a GB fish?
My thoughts exactly. GB. |
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| NOPE, Pretty one though!
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| That ones markings are darker but if you look at the fish below very similar markings. There's a lake I fish that has a lot of them marked like that... and I have a funny feeling it's the same lake your friend got that one on. Pure strain musky. They actually look a lot like pictures I've seen of Lake Wabigoon fish though I've never been there.
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| Musky Madman - 6/3/2010 1:13 PM
looks spotted to me. Probably a GB fish?
My thoughts exactly. GB.
the pic I posted and the fish Big Perc posted are both Iowa fish - same hatchery different lakes. |
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| The pics I posted are Iowa as well. Same lake has barred and clear fish in it as well as spots. |
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| I would say DEFINATELY NOT A TIGER, and I would agree with others on a nice G.B. Fish---. |
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Location: north metro | check the pores on the bottom jaw. more then 7 then its a for sure musky, 5 to 7 it may be a tiger then the next way to tell is if the the points of the tail are rounded or not. i agree with everyone else for sure a just a really pretty muskie |
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Location: Iowa | Thanks for all your input guys, when I look at this fish compared to the leopard tiger below I caught 8 years ago I see that this is not a tiger, and just a really pretty colored pure strain.
Thanks again,
Big Perc
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| I'd give that fish a 6...nice body, ugly face.  |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Leopard Tiger??? Really?? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | that ain't a leapard either ... |
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| The original is most definitelty a GB spottie or a leech laker spottie, big perch your last pic is definitely a tiger.
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Location: Houlton, WI | Not a tiger |
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Location: North Central Illinois | 1st fish definitely a pure Leech Laker and 2nd fish definitely a tiger but NOT a leopard..... |
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| Actually it might be a Miger, not a tiger though...a strain of hybrids where the muskie is the dominant gene. A new strain that is just starting to be looked at. That might actually be the first Miger ever photographed...congrats! |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Miger???????
We need more muskies - way too much time in between strikes. Gives a guy too much time to think. |
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Location: Iowa | That tiger in the second picture came from eagle lake ontario, the only place where leopard tigers exist as far as I have been told...and yes I have been told by many very reputable muskie fisherman in the industry that the fish was indeed a leopard tiger! |
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Location: Roscoe IL | It's a Liger... |
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| Nice Tiger but leapord tiger? Really?
Where's Sorno to clarify? He's the law when it comes to tigers.
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Location: Contrarian Island | found this one posted on the net as a leopard...i have seen pics of some other so called leopards I think out of Herbies camp but they didn't look like this one...
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Location: Detroint Lakes, MN |
I dont' think the "leopards" are hybrids, but have a unique pattern to them.
They say they only exist on Eagle.
But fishermen say a lot of things.
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Location: Yahara River Chain | The problem I have with the term "leopard tiger" is that one term suggest spots and the other suggest stripes. The reason that hybrids get the term "tiger" attached to them is because of the vivid strips they have. When they don't have those stripes, can you still call them a "tiger"? |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | The "Eagle Lake only" theory is not accurate, the guide in the photo Brad posted, Dean, does not fish anywhere near Eagle and is based out of the Nestor Falls area.
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| Beautiful big tiger big perc but it looks like every other tiger that's been put in my boat. 9 from minnesota and two from Canada so far. Pretty sure it's just a nice regular tiger musky. That "leopard" one what every it is looks AWESOME! I'd love to get a replica made of a 50+ of one of them! |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Musky Brian - 6/7/2010 2:55 PM
The "Eagle Lake only" theory is not accurate, the guide in the photo Brad posted, Dean, does not fish anywhere near Eagle and is based out of the Nestor Falls area.
You guys need to read closer what's being typed. In the pic that Brad posted it clearly stated that is is a true muskie not a HYBRID as Big Perc has shown (like the previous poster noted looks just like most other hybrids I've seen) as a "leopard tiger" hybrid that some are claiming only occurs in Eagle Lake. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | ToothyCritter - 6/7/2010 2:08 PM It's a Liger... :) LOL!!! 
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Location: Yahara River Chain | I was doing some digging. Check this out.
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Location: Eau Claire | Thats a sweet looking fish! Good luck seeing that one laying in the weeds! Maybe natural selection is favoring more camouflage now.
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