Big D Surprise Musky and Smallmouth

[Broad Bill]

Nice healthy looking musky. Is that a tiger or true strain. I believe they're stocked in the Delaware but is there true strain natural reproduction as well? Nice small mouths, just a great fish to catch especially river fish that are that much stronger. Great stuff!

[Pondhopper8]

Originally Posted by Broad Bill

Nice healthy looking musky. Is that a tiger or true strain. I believe they're stocked in the Delaware but is there true strain natural reproduction as well? Nice small mouths, just a great fish to catch especially river fish that are that much stronger. Great stuff!

Bill,
That is a juvenile true strain. Both tigers and true strain are stocked in the Delaware. PA stocks only holdover true strains 12-14 inches odd number years, alternating stocking locations. NJ stocks both true strain and tigers in the Delaware but those fish are usually what’s leftover after all the lakes have recieved their stockings. The fish go through the motions of spawning every year but the success rate is probably very low(that is straight from the biologists that manage the river). Smallmouths are a blast! So cool how strong they are and how they utilize the current during a fight. A smaller fish can really fool you into thinking it’s a bigger fish when they are using that current

[Gerry Zagorski]

Nice catch Pond! These river fish really do put up an extra hard fight!