Musky in yanda

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Originally Posted by yumasdad

Have not been able to get out the past few weeks-vacation, fantasy football, work & family stuff has had me hog tied.

I was able to take a few buddies from my FFL out on YANDA for some salmon/trout fishing recently-caught a monster bass hangin out with the salmon & trout in about 60' of water suspending in a about 20'... just weird. Will post of photo of that whale later on this post.

Anyway as we were heading back into the ramp I spotted a large pickerel 28-30" (as I had thought) so I cruised over to check it out. Well it had vertical bars & looked to be a TIGER, THIS I AM CERTAIN.

Now YANDA had stocked tigers many moons ago & it was thought that all were gone but apparently his is not so. Either someone is dumping them in there illegally or the supposedly sterile hybrids are not so sterile (ALA JURASSIC PARK).

I fish YANDA a real lot & have never seen or heard a Musky getting caught there since the FLOCK OF SEAGULLS were on the charts & I HAD HAIR ON TOP OF MY HEAD & NOT GROWING OUT OF MY EARS.

This sounds like a case of illegal stocking which seems to be on the rise with MUSKY & BRIDS. Anyone seen this happening elsewhere? I just hope that nobody is dumping in bullsharks because I like to take an occasional swim on night trips!

Nothing is more efficient to predatory fish than huge schools of fatty oily bait fish milling around by the thousands.. The bass, pike, salmonids and panfish will often be around these schools as its easy pickings.. There are always some game fish in a more "normal" habitat such as weeds, channels, rocks, trees structure, but you would be surprised how many bass/pike /walleyes etc will follow bait around in water much deeper than most of us are used to... Guys down south where all the lakes are loaded with "shad" are much more aware of this fact than we northeast fishermen... bob