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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Ok guys and gals, Caught this fish in the early 90's late fall on Bald Eagle Lake, Twin Cities Metro. Fish was a little better then mid 40's and when I first saw it in the water I called tiger. As I lander her however I thought just a really pretty true. Still when I look at the pictures to this day I see characteristics of both. Tail fins slightly rounded but red when most tigers seem to have the spots on the fins. Sorry the pic isn't better, it's a scan. I'm including another tiger for reference. What do you think?
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Location: Maplewood, MN | I wanna vote Tiger. The darkness of the strips resembles more of a tiger than a pure to me. The fins sort of throw a curve ball though. Beautiful fish overall. |
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| Tiger no doubt about it. |
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Location: Not far enough north! | Tiger for sure. I got some old pics where the fish are backlit like that and the fins are the same yellow color... |
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Location: Germantown, WI | My vote is in the Tiger camp as well. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Tiger, based on that photo and the fishes build. |
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| Tiger for sure. |
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| I actually vote pure...below is a pic of me with a pure caught from this fall in a lake where hybrids are not stocked and there are no pike either...I said the same thing about mine when I saw it in the water
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Larry, You may have a great point on the fishes build, it was much stockier then fish of similar size we caught out there that time of the year. Some had the large bellies but they didn't carry the stockiness throughout like this fish. |
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Location: Forest Lake, MN & Bemidji, MN | Tiger. Compare the anal fins on your fish to Ronix fish, rounded tips and pointed tips. |
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| How many pores did it have on it's lower jaw? Without knowing that information all we can do is guess. |
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| tiger |
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| Tiger --compare the fins. The 2nd first is clearly just a barred natural--again you can see the difference in the fins. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | I'd say tiger. Classic tiger bar pattern, rounded tail-fin, etc. The only thing is that its cheeks don't appear to have the markings like tigers usually do. It's hard to tell from that photo, the detail is poor.
I've caught a ton of fish out of Bald Eagle, but just one tiger. The DNR used to stock Wisconsin strain muskies there, until the early 90's, I believe. The old Wisconsin fish didn't display coloration like the fish in question, though. |
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| i'd say tiger as well! |
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Location: Tonka, MN | Agreed with the barred pure strain. One other thing you can look at in is the tail. The spots on tigers seem to run into the tail while pure's seem to cut off. Correctly me if im wrong here.
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Location: Not where I want to be! | Hybrid!! Hybrid! Hybrid!! There is no such sub specie tiger. Just nicely marked barred fish. |
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| Tiger. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I say Tiger but its definitely borderline. Who knows |
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| First fish is a true 2nd fish tiger
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Location: NorthCentral WI | I agree with the first fish being a nicely barred pure. Second fish is an obvious tiger. |
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| Ronix's = Barred, others are tigers |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | First one in the fuzzy picture is a beautifully marked pure to me. |
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| First fish pure second fish tiger |
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