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Excuse my ignorance...I'm new here.  You have your own private 10 acre pond/lake you bought those tigers for? If so...COOL! :thumbsup: I'm green with envy. I'd love to have my own lake that I could privately fund. I don't think you're wasting $300 for those fish at all. And...like anything else...you never know until you try. I think you'll love your efforts. Sure...it may take a few years before you can start to see that $300 paying off...but...patience is a virtue. Congrats. (If you don't have your own private 10 acre pond/lake...disregard. :D Maybe I've misunderstood or not know the whole story.) | |||
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Posts: 341 | No 9 other homes are on it. If it was mine it would have been stocked yearly with ski's and would have structure galore in the middle. Home owners fish it but only a few times a year. I'm just messing around trying to play God with the lakes eco system. Hopefully no swimmers with toe rings get bit in a few years  | ||
| MACK |
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| Well...regardless...that's really cool. I'd love to have a 'lil hole like that to stock some fun fish in. 10 acres and one 20' foot hole may not produce huge fish though. A body of water of that size...may stunt their growth? I dunno...what do I know? Not much. You ever watch that body of water's temps in the summer months? How deep will it freeze, ie, winter fish kill from the ice, etc. What's the body of water's forage base and how much is there? You putting any shad in to help the bass and Tigers both? I keep telling my wife..."IF" we'd be fortunate enough to hit a lottery...we'd be buying a good plot of land and I'd commission contractors to come in and dig, build and design my own lake to be stocked with my favorite species. It's a pipe dream I know...but it keeps me dreaming and hoping! :D Again...I don't think your money's wasted. I think it'll be fun to keep your eye on something like that, a fun experiment to say the least. Do the other 9 homeowners on the lake know you've done something like this? Reason I ask is, I'd hate for one of them to be out there fishing and catch one of your Tigers and either not know what it is and kill it or think that they shouldn't be in there and kill it in order to protect the other species in the water. Edited by MACK 12/7/2004 3:55 PM | |||
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| muskycore |
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Posts: 341 | Mission Tiger went smoothly as planned. Now I need to kill 5 years before the real fun begins. Private no worries. Attachments ----------------  HPIM0091.JPG (165KB - 147 downloads) HPIM0096.JPG (114KB - 313 downloads) HPIM0092.JPG (130KB - 137 downloads) | ||
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Posts: 341 | Rob from MMF said they will search the lake for minnows..At this point they could be any where. I would love to dump minnows in the lake but this isn't a small pond. The bass are dormant this time of year so no other predators should threaten them. I wonder if they will pack and work for food together. I hope my babies make it thru the night..  So before I released them I played Slayer for them to make sure they had the correct muskie attitude....SEEK AND DESTROY little ones! | ||
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| Too cool, let's fish them in a decade, what do you say? | |||
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Posts: 3242 Location: Racine, Wi | My parents live on a small lake that is stocked with tigers and true muskies. It is a 22 acre private lake. They just stocked it this year again, and I would see them sitting over the weedflats with FAT little bellies. I didn't see them moving together, usually solo, but that's not to say that they don't team up. They will grow prettyfast in there if there is good forage. I have caught them up to 49"s in there lake, and we have a 44 and 45"er this year, seeing a bigger one. One of the neighbors showed me a picture of a 52 that his buddie got out there a couple of years ago. It too is a spring fed lake, so no winter kill. Have a blast with them, and keep throwing your bass type spinnerbaits. (shhhhh) Very cool pics!!!! | ||
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| muskycore |
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Posts: 7119 Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | |||
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Posts: 1764 Location: Ogden, Ut | I have a bit of experience w/ these critters and some of the things mentioned ring true, others would be 'stretching' it a bit (solely based on my experience; not to say it can't happen). We started the tiger program in Utah by stocking 7-9" fish because almost ALL of the literature out there indicates that stocking muskies any smaller than that into populations of black basses will result in failure. This is expensive. We had very poor survival of the initial stocks. Birds got most of them - the fish were too stupid to avoid avian predators; they had no fear response. The program was about to be scrapped until a couple of us just decided to try a cheaper way - stocking 2-3" fingerlings. It wasn't supposed to work, but it was cheap and these fish had amazing escape instincts and disappeared into the vegetation immediately upon hitting the water. I had a hard time waiting until that fall to gill net... Needless to say, they survived and flourished. By mid-November I have measured young-of-the-year fish up to 20" (most 14-17); yearlings at 27 (most 22-25), by their 3rd year most were over 30". Our state record is just over 53" I believe. I have never seen a documented report of a non-captive fish reaching over 9 years of age. Ours burned out at about 7. They tend to eat smaller prey than either of their purebred parental stocks (I have no idea why - it makes no sense) and they have a curious habit of swimming on the surface with their heads out of the water for extended periods (I tell the public they're searching for PWCs) . As if you can't tell by now, I love 'em. We have 'expanded their range' to about 4 lakes now in Utah - results are mixed, but I remain optimistic. Enjoy your experiment, but don't be afraid to try a few smaller ones if what you're doing doesn't work. By the way, your stocking rate is about 1.5 to 2 times the recommended density, but I don't think I'd go any lower. Kent | ||
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