Anyone know what the criteria is for lakes that makes them acceptable to planting tiger muskies?
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No idea, but that's a question for the state bio.
I am glad (for purely selfish reasons) that they did. Being that they're hybrid and can't spawn plus shorter lifespan, I suppose if things go awry, it wouldn't take quite so long for the native fish affected to rebound.
I am glad (for purely selfish reasons) that they did. Being that they're hybrid and can't spawn plus shorter lifespan, I suppose if things go awry, it wouldn't take quite so long for the native fish affected to rebound.
No idea. Have some guesses, but not certain.
What are you thinking? If youre thinking what I think you are I'm all about supporting the effort.
What are you thinking? If youre thinking what I think you are I'm all about supporting the effort.
The north end as well as the peninsula aren’t really represented when it comes to musky opportunities.
It also seems mostly larger impoundments are currently stocked. I think it would be great to have some opportunities to angle for them in smaller bodies of water.
Maybe only plant 50-100 per lake and not plant them annually.
I know they tried this at Green Lake, but I don’t think it was the best choice.
I found some stocking numbers for the current lakes and they kind of seem all over the board as far as the number of fish stocked yearly. I’m not sure how they determine the annual stocking numbers.
I’d have to think part of the stocking criteria is that they don’t interfere with anadromous fish.
I’ve read a lot about muskies liking suckers and pikeminnow. A lot of small lakes may not have those but do have an abundant supply of other warmwater species…..plus stocker bows. Based on reports I read, they will eat all of those species.
Maybe I’ll drop an email to the biologist for the program and get their thoughts on this and to see if they’ve considered doing something like this.
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Hell yeah.
I'll reach out as well.
I'll reach out as well.
I imagine this is key
I would love to have a closer venue for these fish
I think Goodwin might work
Also Big Lake maybe.
I think Goodwin might work
Also Big Lake maybe.
Summit lake needs musky to prey on the bucket biologist's small and largemouth bass contributions. That lake used to have a couple cool fisheries. Now it's just a bass lake with small Kokanee in lower numbers. I say let's go full musk. Pursuing them around sunken Islands and shallows would be way more fun than the alternatives.
I think @DimeBrite knows a guy that got one in the Cowlitz or another river down there while twitching jigs for cohoCould we plants some in the Skykomish seams theres no steelhead anymore
On the north end, look at the list of lakes that have brown trout. Those are the lakes that could be musky candidates, as they would have no inlet or outlet (that's also a criteria for stocking browns).
I thought it was done to benefit the anadromous fish, by knocking down predator populations like the NPM. But that fact may only exist in my head.
I witnessed a spoon caught one at blue creek.
If I were in charge I'd have stocker minnow angling as a minority project for kids and adults with special needs mainly and the rest targeted towards actual good angling experiences.
The greenlake tiger musky stocking was a planned experiment to see if they could effectively reduce the carp population. There was electrofishing to sample stomach contents to see what they were eating. I talked one of the people involved at the time, and it seemed that the tigers were eating mostly trout, and that their survival rate was low. I suspect that low survival was largely due to incidental catches by trout fishers. As far as I know no report was ever published, so we might never really know.
It looks like the original Green Lake stocking was 150 fish, so roughly one fish per 1.6 acres of lake surface area.
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Tiger muskies introduced to help balance Green Lake ecology
SEATTLE- As part of a larger effort to improve water quality and recreational fishing in Green Lake, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) plans to stock the lake with 150 tiger muskies in early November to thin populations of stunted perch and sunfish and to control common carp...
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