Kawarthas today. It was Tigerriffic

[nlpaintballer]

Fished Mitchell this morning and the bite was on. Only fished a few hours and boated 19 bass, 6 pike and a 44-46" tiger muskie. 90% of the action was from 5:15-7:30

 

Didn't get any good pictures or any girth measurements, but it was a fat tiger. my boat seat is 16" wide and it fills a little over half of the seat.

 

A video of the release.

 

http://s787.photobucket.com/user/nlpaintballer/media/Video002_zpsb1a417e9.mp4.html

 

[spincast]

man they are a nice looking fish, sweet day on the water, sure beat my day hands down

[kickingfrog]

I do some of my best sleeping between 5 and 7. Nice fish.

[RickOnt]

npb

 

That's gotta be the coolest fish,

 

Well Done

Rick

[Rizzo]

nice!

[captpierre]

Them sure are purdy

[danc]

Gorgeous fish!

[Acountdeleted]

Bonus points for the tiger muskie. Nice haul.

[Sinker]

That's one pretty, fat fish!! Beauty!

 

S.

[bobogo]

wow. what a nice fish! the colours on it are so vibrant.

i notice your pod packs, you storage lures in there?

[chris.brock]

the video showed how big that tiger really was, the pics didn't do it justice, beauty!

 

it seems like a lot of tigers are coming out of the Kawarthas now, I'm guessing it's more common when pike recently invade previous muskie only waters???

 

edit

 

I don't know why my stuff is underlined, frustrating

Edited June 27, 2013 by chris.brock

[msp]

Thatsure is a fatty. well done

[nlpaintballer]

Thanks guys, I wish I had a good pic of it, I would say it weighed between 25-30 pounds easily. It was nice and thick.

 

Bobogo, yeah I use my pods as extra storage for my oversize muskie lures. I work weekends now so tournament paintball is on hiatus.

 

I wonder if it was the same fish I caught 3 years ago when it was 43" Same lure, same weather conditions and about 0.5 km apart. If not, that is a crazy population of natural tigers.

[fishindevil]

Wow !!!! Nice lookin tiger for sure !!!!!! There seems to be more and more of them ..... Good for you and the guys that catch them .... But not good for the muskies they are being taken over .... Cheers on that fish tho .....

[mattyk]

Great tiger!

[ehg]

Wow! That could be largest, most beautiful tiger musky i have seen from Kawarthas.

Usually fat musky/pike like that are caught in the fall.

Excellent catch!

[bucktail]

Beautiful fish!

[TJQ]

Really Pretty Fish!!

[danklegrand]

Beauty fish for sure!

[solopaddler]

What a fish, wow!