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| Nice fish!! |
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Location: Duluth | Guess this is as good a place as any to decide this. Below is the fish that started my addiction 8 years ago, taken form a small river in Baraga County MI. Unfortunately she inhaled the little cleo i was using to catch walleye below a rapid and didn't make it. Since the catch there has been much debate among family members whether she's a hybrid or pure.
My guess is sconnie strain given the river system this little river flows into. Thanks in advance for the identification and promise I wont get mad when you poke fun
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Location: oswego, il | The fins are rounded, nice fish! Garage sale raincoat?:-) |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Definitely a tiger. |
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| I don't think it is a tiger, looks more like a Wisconsin strain purebred. The fish lacks the over sized head, fins, and tail of a tiger that size. It also appears to lack the spots mixed in with the bars like the tigers I regularly catch. The tail is hard to see but it looks like it is more pointed than a tiger but I'm not claiming to be an expert. I think the best thing would be to put the other tiger picture side by side with this picture for comparison. |
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Location: Duluth | My amateur hold obscures the size of the head, it was a big head. leaning more towards tiger now
Rain jacket was pulled out of the emergency stash after i ripped my frog toggs on the dang windshield. |
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| looks like a pure Johnsonville maple breakfast sausage. 3/4 cooked. |
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| CincySkeez, I believe your fish is also a Tiger, based on the shape of the dorsal fin along with the markings. Very hard to tell from the picture, and some pures can resemble this appearance... but there are a few indicators that lean towards Tiger. Nice fish, either way. Thanks for sharing.
Edited by Reelwise 7/18/2018 6:28 PM
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Location: Duluth | Thanks for the feedback guys. Tiger it is |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Have you been back up there and fished those waters with musky and pike gear? I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to hear about it.
Nice catch, by the way!
Edited by Quest4Esox 7/21/2018 12:38 PM
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| i don't know why,every time i see something that round i would like to see how it look inside,could we find an animal,a car license like the infamous jaws movies or even a baby ? nice fish |
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Location: Duluth | Quest4Esox - 7/21/2018 12:34 PM
Have you been back up there and fished those waters with musky and pike gear? I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to hear about it.
Nice catch, by the way!
Absolutely, that accidental hook up changed the way I look at river systems. It was the ah ha moment that made me realize I was in the middle of a pretty darn good fishery. Funny thing is everyone knows they are in there, they just don't really target them. |
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Location: oswego, il | Both look like tigers, trust your gut. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | CincySkeez - 7/23/2018 6:42 AM
Quest4Esox - 7/21/2018 12:34 PM
Have you been back up there and fished those waters with musky and pike gear? I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to hear about it.
Nice catch, by the way!
Absolutely, that accidental hook up changed the way I look at river systems. It was the ah ha moment that made me realize I was in the middle of a pretty darn good fishery. Funny thing is everyone knows they are in there, they just don't really target them.
Wow... Capitalizing on one of life's pivotal moments. Love it. Just imagine if things had gone the other way and the fish had cut you off before you ever even got to see it. It could easily have turned into just another tail of the time a guy hooked something big, followed by endless speculation as to what it could have been----foul hooked sturgeon and carp come to mind. |
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