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Hit Silver Lake today with my two daughters and a business partner and his two grandsons.  Came back with 50 bluegills and 7 yellow perch.  In the process of bringing in one of the bluegills, a monster from the deep came up in pursuit.  Dropped the bluegill down and the large pike came up and completely engulfed the 6 inch bluegill, cutting or breaking the 4 lb test in the process.  Suspect it was a tiger musky, though was not able to see the markings, just that it was a large pike of some sort.  Took a Rattle Trap and tossed it out a few times with no follows.  Guess he got is fill.  A short time later, I reeled in this creature.  Suspect it was in the carp family, but had small scales, red eyes, and broad, round bases to it's fins.  Mouth was a bit larger, but still pointing someone down but higher than most carp and sucker mouths do.

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2013, 10:17:13 PM »
OK, just figured out the mystery fish.  It is a tench.

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2013, 10:38:49 PM »
WTH...never seen that :o Did you let it go or what :dunno:
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The tench or doctor fish is a freshwater and brackish water fish of the cyprinid family found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is also found in Lake Baikal.
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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2013, 10:41:45 PM »
Garbage fish!

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2013, 10:51:13 PM »
There were a bunch of tench in Sprague lake before they poisoned it.  Don't know what Silver Lake's population is like.  I let this one go, since I didn't know what it was at the time.  Should have probably cut it and let the osprey eat it.

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2013, 10:56:56 PM »
We always shoved a knife through their gills, and sent them to the bottom.  It's a garbage fish.

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2013, 05:16:08 AM »
Sprauge had a bunch also before they killed it off

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2013, 08:02:21 AM »
Were you the ones mentioned in the Spokesman this weekend about the musky attack?

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2013, 09:55:01 AM »
Nope, wasn't me.

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2013, 10:00:20 AM »
Tench; that’s why they put the musky in there.  Diver friend of mine said that he was down there and was amazed at how many tench there were in that lake.

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Re: Silver lake, near Spokane. Encounter with monster and mystery fish.
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2013, 11:49:08 AM »
Were you the ones mentioned in the Spokesman this weekend about the musky attack?

This was in the Fri. paper

A young angler fishing for perch and bluegill with his grandfather at Silver Lake caught a lot of fish, but the fish that got away probably provided the most lasting memories. Twice, the lad had large tiger musky hammer a hooked perch at the boat, stripping line and breaking off.


 


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