We managed to catch a few Kawartha fish last weekend, the clear musky was 42″, and the tiger, which is the highlight, was caught by my brother, his first musky. I have been trying to get him a musky for over 5 years, well it finally happened!! And a tiger to boot! (He’s camera shy) it measured 37″. He has caught a big pike before, and when I asked him, “so now do you see the difference between the two?” He laughed and said holy shit, that was a whole new level of power. Both fish came within 20 minutes of each other. Murphy Irvine
“a whole new level of power.”
That caught my eye as it explains some of the reverence musky have over pike. I am not sure I have heard that before.
Fall is musky time.
The tiger muskellunge(Esox masquinongy × lucius or Esox lucius × masquinongy),[1] commonly called tiger muskie, is a carnivorous fish, and is the usually sterile, hybrid offspring of the true muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and the northern pike (Esox lucius).
It was a long time before I understood this. I thought it was a color pattern.