Michigan Muskie Alliance

There are fishable numbers in both lakes albeit in pretty low numbers. Lots of food of various species, fish are growing fast.

Glitter walleye with a pale yellow belly.

Double ten bucktails and Regular size medussas have caught more fish for us then anything else and most of the big ones I've been a part of.

Decoyman wrote:That's close to home ! How many years until these fish are decent size ?

There are already 40-45" (maybe bigger) from previous stockings started in 2012. Some of the fish from this years stocking could be over 40" in 5 years.

I was down at the IMC and spent Thursday and Sunday on Webster. Thursday we saw a lot of fish of all sizes and caught 3 small ones. Sunday was tougher, moved a handful of fish with one 42-44" class fish in 40 foot of water but no takers. Jason summed it up well as the deep basins or the deeper edges ...

I heard nick needs a new boat....

It was a good time for sure. I do feel a bit traumatized from dealing with 3 days of downpours and gusting winds. The fishing was miserable and head scratchingly bad too...until Brian caught a 51". Good to see the Michigan boys kicking some butt again!

Just a 100% pike in my opinion but definitely an interesting specimen.

My typical opening day tradition, working... Good luck everyone!

jasonvkop wrote:. What was the remarkable stat he gave at the end of the presentation? A 2% increase in harvest is equivalent to a 30% decrease in reproduction output? .

2% increase in annual mortality would lead to a 70% decrease in reproduction output.

how old they will be when they hit 40"?

I don't expect them to grow as fast as they would on some of the southern Michigan lakes so my guess on that particular lake is it will take 6-7 years for the fastest growing females of the group to hit 40". First year classes on new lakes are hard to ...

Steve S wrote:That's going to be interesting at Hudson, is there going to be one at Diane?

No box at Diane but you should still report fishing trips on the online survey for all muskie waters in 2015.

ATT doesn't carry it either unless you pay extra. I get outdoor channel and sportsman channel but no WFN. Lame.

Explanation from the DNR newsletters on why Teal lake was chosen for stocking. Will be interesting to see if small numbers of stocked muskies can control the white sucker problem there. The reasons for stocking lake margrethe were similar.

Teal Lake muskellunge stocking (Negaunee):
The management ...

I like your fire man! You definitely need to join chapter 47, get access to the members forum on here and just start reading! Good luck on your quest to catch a muskie, it will happen sooner or later, then you will be REALLY hooked and be obsessed with catching more and bigger muskies.