We are convinced most Utah tiger muskie, especially larger ones, stay 15 to 20 feet deep most of the time all year, often much deeper. You carefully position yourself , trying not to disturb the fish, then you make your best cast. There are a few 50+ inch fish in the water right now, and there could be a good number of real trophies in the reservoir within a couple years. I rocketed a big Rapala towards shore and my aim was perfect; it landed just an inch away from a clump of willows, which extended out into the bay. When you find one you can sometimes stalk it. As he shook he brushed against a willow, and suddenly he was gone. You've got to be getting into the brush in order to get at the fish.
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Polar Bears Return To Strawberry Reservoir In Utah! Four to eight inch lures seem to work well. Never grab it by the head or mouth. Use pliers to remove the hook while the fish is still in the water, if possible. The lake trout in Flaming Gorge and striped bass in Lake Powell tap out at about 45 inches, but what they lack in length, they more than make up for in girth. Polarized glasses really help to see fish in the brush. When the fish are deep, a conventional fish finder really helps. “When the fish hit, I knew it was a big one,” he says, “but as the fight wore on I felt that it might be a real big one.” The furious battle lasted about 20 minutes. Since the tigers cannot reproduce, their numbers can only be managed through stocking and harvest control. 4.
Adrenaline raced through my veins for several minutes after that encounter. During the spawn, crappie are easy to catch using small jigs fished in the brush. All in all, more than 20,000 tigers have bee planted in Pineview, with the first stocked in 1987. If you watch closely, you can sometimes see a tiger hiding in the weeds or brush, waiting to ambush an unsuspecting water skier--oops, I mean, another fish. The Empire Strikes Sundance #SundanceFilmFestival #TheBrineShrimp. Well, I'm not sure if I had him or he had me. The regulation closing Pineview to the harvest of tigers is intended to protect the resource for many years into the future. The crappie make easy pickings for tiger muskie – concentrations of fish, with plenty of cover for ambushing. A tiger muskie had eyeballed me lure, but decided not to strike. When tiger muskies are introduced into such a system, the predator culls surplus small fish, and the result is a more healthy population.
If you tangle with the teeth while attempting to land or unhook a tiger, you will almost certainly require stitches, and you may lose a finger. I fished for the tigers on June 13 with Bill Furniss--an excellent fisherman who has invested many hours learning the habits of the Pineview muskie. The reservoir now rates as one of the best tiger muskie fisheries in the Western. Pineview has boasted to having record breaking muskies. Because the fish is an efficient predator, and because it is sterile, it can be used effectively to control populations of fish like perch and crappie, which tend to reproduce so prolifically that they overrun the environment and become stunted. I cast again into the same spot. We were on the water for about eight hours, saw six big muskie chasing our lures, had four hook-ups, but only boated one of the fish. This fish definitely trumps them all! But most people out to challenge the tigers of Pineview do best fishing from a boat, using heavy tackle and big, flashy lures. Details of the catch were hazy, so to set the record straight, I talked with Bennett Oberg, who caught the fish at Pineview Reservoir while on a trip with his dad.