Hey Joel
The Musky was caught out of a section that has an extended season in it so it's open till Dec 31, so bass, pike, musky & every thing else is open till then or the end of their season, I haven't been in the area at Lake Huron for about 20 years & only in there in the summer then, I knew there was Pike in there & we were definitely targeting them, I know we shouldn't have taken the pictures but we did, we were fishing an area that was 5 to 8 ft deep & a muddy bottom that was full of bait, we caught quite a few pike got bit off by lots & lost more yet on all kinds of lures, we were from the inner bay all the way out to the Bruce A out flow & caught pike, salmon, bass, white bass, carp & maybe shad never seen one of them before & my buddy threw it back before we got a picture, we were there for 9 hours I believe & maybe caught a dozen bass, fished it lots after that & never caught any or few each time.
No excuse but thats it Richard