“Tiger Musky: The Fish of One Thousand Casts.”
My rear end!
I fished Pineview from about 8 this morning till 7 this evening. The first cast of the day, off the shore, mind you, I had my first Tiger of the day. A beautiful 35"er. He slammed a #5 Blue Fox Vibrax in Firetiger colors. Released him, and went on my way.
Hit Spring Creek for a couple hours. Slow. That about discribes things. One crappie that hit a 3 1/2" tube jig I was pulling through the timber. Nice fish. 14". Only fish I saw boated there.
Headed over to another no name bay. Fished a long, long, long shore line getting into it, and the bay. Every bit of brush along the way, too. That’s about 7 hours worth of pitching tubes into the thickets. It paid off, though. Ended the day with SEVEN Musky between 25-38". Another 15 cut offs because I was only using 8# line with a 20# leader. Shoulda gone heavier, but it’s all I had. I was planning on fishing crappies and smallies. Oh well.
Also put around 20 big Crappie on the yellow toonerino. Every fish hit various colors on 3 1/2" Gitzit Tubejigs. Brown with red speckles, salt and pepper, and pale green seemed to work best, but I caught fish or had bites on every color I had. I got checked by the fish and game cops about 5. At that time I’d had the best day they’d seen with the 5 crappies I kept, and the four reported tigers. Doubled the musky count in a little over two hours.
Those tigers go nutty over the tubes. It’s definately finess fishing, but, it works. I honestly think most people spook them with the bigger lures. Oh, and best of all! A couple pictures. Nothing from on the boat, though. New phone = NO WATER! lol