Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky

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What a giant! Did the muskie take your crappie rig?

I believe it came in and swiped at the blue/silver kastmaster, and got snagged with the rat finke on it's way out.

As big as they are, tigers still occasionally slurp some small lures being fished for other species.  I know of several caught through the ice on bitty bites being worked for crappies or perch.  And the pic below is of a 36 incher I caught from my float tube in November one year while fishing small jigs on the bottom in over 40 feet up near the buoy line.  The jig was well inside the fish's mouth and I was only using 6# mono.  In spite of a couple of jumps and a lot of cavorting the line held long enough for me to bring the fish to net.