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Old 04-01-2012, 10:25 PM
flyboy1 flyboy1 is offline
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Default Tiger Musky in the Passaic? I say yup

Tossed a line this morning from (6-8am) around 2 bridges area on the pompton river side of Passaic. I caught 2 small pike and what looked to be a 30" tiger musky. The area I was fishing had a very shallow slope into the river and as I was reeling the Tiger in it was shallow enough for it to basically start flopping hard before I got it to shore and it viciously shook the lure out. I could see the fish extremely clearly as it was only 3 feet from and it was in fact a tiger musky. I knew they used to stock Tigers in the passaic/pompton back in the day but stopped at some point.. Evidently they are continually breeding naturally or there is still hold overs swimming about.

Ps. I caught the Pike and Tiger on 7'' 3 part segmented crank (Perch colored).

Last edited by flyboy1; 04-01-2012 at 10:27 PM..