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Location: North Metro, MN | I've caught a few tagged fish in my life but never any muskies until this year. In this particular lake we've boated a few tagged muskies this year. Anybody get the data back from tagged muskies before w/ any cool stories? I would love to do tracking studies on fish and learn more about their movements. I'm sending in the tag numbers to the DNR and actually pretty excited to hear the stories on these fish.
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Location: Central WI | I've caught a few on the WI River but have never had any pen/paper in the boat to write the numbers down. |
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| Have caught several in WV streams with tags. Most are grown over and you cannot read. For years, you could send scale samples into the Ohio DNR. They would mail back the age of the fish and the class it was stocked in. The oldest fish I got information back on was 14 years old. 45.5" |
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | I have caught 2 tagged muskies in the Metro this year. 1 27" on WBL and a 37" on Bald Eagle Lake.
here is the report I got from the WBL fish
"Thank you for reporting the tag on the muskie you caught on White Bear Lake. The reason this fish had a tag is because it’s part of a study evaluating muskie stocking strategies in three Metro lakes (Bald Eagle, White Bear, Minnetonka). In each lake we are stocking fingerling (age-0) and yearling (age-1) fish at the same time to see which size class will survive better. This should help us better manage this species in the future. The 27-inch fish (tag # 313181) you caught was stocked as a yearling in 2011. It was 17.5 inches at the time.
Here’s a link to more information on the study. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/areas/fisheries/westmetro/mue_study.html
Thanks again for reporting the tag and please continue to do so in the future. Tag reports are instrumental in the success of this project. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.
BJ Bauer
Fisheries Specialist
MN Department of Natural Resources
West Metro Area Fisheries
7050 East HWY 101 Suite 100
Shakopee, MN 55379
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The stocking study is funded by the Twin Cities and North Metro chapters of Muskies Inc with funds from the tournament proceeds and grants from the Hugh Becker Fund.
Thank You M.I. and MN DNR
Steve
Edited by Sorgy 8/19/2013 10:19 AM
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Location: North Metro, MN | Awesome thanks guys, its cool catchin those tagged ones, makes them seem more special and memorable. hopefully I'll hear something back soon to give an update. They grow pretty quick those first few years. I used to have a little Tiger Musky in a 55 gal. tank I got from a local pet shop. It was maybe 6" long when I got it and within a year and a half(maybe less) grew to around to 13" or more |
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| Here in WV I caught a 47.5 that was tagged but it was to grown over and i was too excited to try and see the numbers. But there was an article in Musky hunter a couple months ago about the study. I know they have had a few travel well over 50 miles in the river and they have some that been caught in the same pool multiple times by multiple anglers. I guess some a ramblers and some are home bodies. |
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Location: Algonac, MI | We landed & released a 38" male Great Lakes spotted muskie in Lake St Clair one season, tagged in the St Clair River (34" male), 2 seasons prior. Aside from being tagged, it didn't seem like a big deal to us, since tag location and caught location, were only 20 miles apart on the same watershed. Info we learned, when we called the OMNR with the tag number.
A couple months later, a letter arrived in the mail from the OMNR. Turns out, we were not the first anglers to land & release the fish, after it was tagged. It was landed roughly 1 year after being tagged in the SCR, up in Georgian Bay, near Tobemory, and measured 36". We landed it, almost a year after they landed it, near the Thames River in LSC.
This fish covered some water.
Edited by Contender 8/21/2013 3:07 PM
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| I caught a tagged fish on Bald Eagle this year too, kinda cool. The only thing I didn't like was how much the fish had grown around the tag, making it hard to get all the numbers...found out mine was stocked as a yearling in 2008. |
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