32 incher

[MooseZ25]

Was it full of planter trout?

[LDennis24]

Was that right by your place? Or at least on the Columbia if you don't mind sharing?

[Russ McDonald]

I sure miss catching Northerns. (Pike wasn't in our vocabulary in MN). They do look a bit different out here, as do the walleyes.

I was looking at it to.  Markings looked different.  The spots are definitely the tell tale between the 2.

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[buckcanyonlodge]

I've caught quite a few the last few years from Hunters all the way to Rice. This one had very distinct markings. I think it just got through spawning as it's stomach was empty. Here are a few from earlier years to show the markings of these Lake Roosevelt fish.

[jrebel]

When I retire....I may have found a great way to spend my time.  Those look like they would fun to catch.....thanks for sharing the photos. 

[NRA4LIFE]

I sure miss catching Northerns. (Pike wasn't in our vocabulary in MN). They do look a bit different out here, as do the walleyes.

I never knew them as anything other than Northerns.

[Ridgeratt]

Thank you for killin those. Now more people need to as well. 

[Alchase]

Great looking fish buckcanyonlodge 

When I retire....I may have found a great way to spend my time.  Those look like they would fun to catch.....thanks for sharing the photos. 

I use to love watching them stalk the shallows on lake Curlew. I have never caught one, but I have lost two and my son lost a Tiger on Mayfield Lake that was a monster! It took his Double Whammy about three feet from the boat and splashed all of us. Never even got one turn on that one. He took off and it was all my son (15 at the time) could do was hold on. The cool part is when it took off, it stayed on the surface, two other boats got to see the size of it before he broke off. The look on my son's face a classic, 

[Southpole]

http://northernpikefishingtips.com/muskie-vs-tiger-muskie-how-to-tell-them-apart/


Lake Curlew has Tiger Muskie.

[Russ McDonald]

I was a dock hand one summer at a lodge at home in noethern MN.  Had some Indiana bass fisherman asking us about other fish besides bass in the lake.  I told them we have big northerns but don't lip them like bass.  Those guys came screaming back in the 18' Skitter bass boat with a 200 Merc Black Max on it.  One guy with his hand wrapped in a towel with half his thumb tore off.  Being we are so rural it was easier to drive to a hospital.  The lodge owners had someone drive them.  Those guys came back the next day and the one had stiches in his thumb.  He handed me $20 and said you were right and I forgot when I went to haul him in. 

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[NRA4LIFE]

They are toothy critters.  We found that out at very early ages in WI.

[7mmfan]

In my teens a friend's grandparent's had a little cabin on Curlew. We would go there every summer for at least a week. His grandpa handed over the keys to the 16' smoker craft and off we went. Man what a great time for two teenage boys. We figured out the tiger musky fishing pretty fast and were actually pretty handy at catching them, averaging 3-4 a day. One evening I caught a nice one, about 42" or 43" if I remember right. We drug it in the boat and hit it in the head with the little bat I had for a bonker. I thought it was done and was standing there in flip flops right in front of it basking in the glory of it all, when it regained consciousness and latched onto the end of my sandal, just grazing my toes, and starting flopping all over raising hell in the boat. If he'd gotten my toes, he very well might have ripped them right off. Needless to say, the bat came back out and finished the job.

[7mmfan]

I've caught quite a few the last few years from Hunters all the way to Rice. This one had very distinct markings. I think it just got through spawning as it's stomach was empty. Here are a few from earlier years to show the markings of these Lake Roosevelt fish.

In general, what have you found in these fish when cleaning them? I've always been curious what they target.

[Angry Perch]

I spent a lot of time as a kid wading the Snake River in Minnesota. Usually had stringer tied to my belt loop with the day's catch. Always a little unnerving with a northern swimming around your legs!

[buckcanyonlodge]

I've caught quite a few the last few years from Hunters all the way to Rice. This one had very distinct markings. I think it just got through spawning as it's stomach was empty. Here are a few from earlier years to show the markings of these Lake Roosevelt fish.

In general, what have you found in these fish when cleaning them? I've always been curious what they target.

Net pen rainbows. Of course so do the walleye...an 18 incher had an 8 inch rainbow in it's belly.