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ricepicker
Posted 5/24/2007 9:34 AM (#257682)
Subject: How'd it get there?




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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esoxaddict
Posted 5/24/2007 9:34 AM (#257683 - in reply to #257682)
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I vote for Johnny Muskieseed
greenduck
Posted 5/24/2007 12:10 PM (#257732 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: Re: How'd it get there?




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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
Heibs
Posted 5/24/2007 12:20 PM (#257736 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: RE: How'd it get there?


The real question is, how'd you get George Bush Jr. as a fishing partner?
Moss back
Posted 5/24/2007 12:34 PM (#257739 - in reply to #257736)
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois		Good one Heibs!
Steve Horton
Posted 5/24/2007 12:41 PM (#257740 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: RE: How'd it get there?


Which river? That fish is small enough to get through just about any beaver dam. It came from the lake.
Muskie Treats
Posted 5/24/2007 1:33 PM (#257752 - in reply to #257682)
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot		The Muskie Bandito's get my vote.
ricepicker
Posted 5/24/2007 1:42 PM (#257754 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: RE: How'd it get there?




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.
Chibigboy
Posted 5/24/2007 2:08 PM (#257761 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: Re: How'd it get there?




Location: Northern Illinois		Go muskyseed!
muskymeyer
Posted 5/24/2007 3:41 PM (#257773 - in reply to #257754)
Subject: RE: How'd it get there?





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Location: nationwide		With a diet of brook trout I want to fish for it in a few years!!!!!!!


Corey Meyer
California_Muskie
Posted 5/24/2007 4:35 PM (#257782 - in reply to #257773)
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Location: Ontario, California		Maybe it was George W. Bush in the background that started a stocking program
muskyboy
Posted 5/24/2007 5:22 PM (#257789 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: Re: How'd it get there?


Some muskies can travel 100 miles or more, and it looks like it is from Lake Michigan
Got Esox?
Posted 5/24/2007 5:48 PM (#257792 - in reply to #257682)
Subject: Re: How'd it get there?





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Location: WESTERN WI		Johnny Muskieseed Stikes again!!!
ToddM
Posted 5/24/2007 7:17 PM (#257802 - in reply to #257682)
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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.
lardonastick
Posted 5/24/2007 9:49 PM (#257826 - in reply to #257682)
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Location: Belleville, WI		Either way, cute little fish!
sworrall
Posted 5/24/2007 10:03 PM (#257831 - in reply to #257682)
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin		Funny looking trout you caught there, Art!
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