RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

Tiger Musky for sure. It's a Hybrid I believe when an late spawning Northern meets up with an early spawning Musky.

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

definetly a Tiger.

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

tiger muskie for sure. broken striping. nice little fish. trust me for that fish .... little, pending size of water it came outta. good color tho.

pure muskie have verticle stripes and usually solid from top to bottom and are tan/brownish color with lighter tan/brownish color stripes. the stripes tend to be solid one stripe from top to bottom and very vertically situated. typically very broad wide stripes compared to tigers.

northern pike are more slate blue/silvery color sides with grey backbone and their striping is more horizontally situated and there should be some faint goldish dashes and broken dash stripes going lengthwise. very neat fish to see a male in full color.

Tiger muskie have broken narrower stripes and they tend to be more up down situated than legthwise. Their color tend sto be more brownish than slatish typically but you will get some gold accents coming through. I think the muskie genes are more dominant so they tend to take on more brown and verticle striping but the northern dashes stripes cause the muskie stripes to break from solid one stripe top to bottom and also narrows the stripes a bit and also makes them have varied stripe angles.

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

Defenitly a Tiger musky. NY outdoors where abouts are you at, I live just south of Endicott in Elmira, You should show me where all the good spots on the Susqua are, I cant find a pike or walleye to save my life.. some good Bass fishin in Odessa though. Well good fishing to all.

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

Not that familiar with the rivers towards Elmira way that much but from whatI do know about them .......... lacking DEEEEEP holes or flats for most part. I've had good luck with bass and carp down that way but not much else. I'm sure there are some secluded spots down that way that have a few muski/northern/tigers there but might be harder to find.

The bigger ones are very very territorial and may push smaller ones out if not enough room or habitat and food making them a bit harder to find.

Things you are looking for, big deep water area's with some good currents, near by shallows, rock beds, weed beds, and bait fish.......... bait fish bait fish bait fish bait fish. can't say it enough. You find where a lot of bait fish are living ........ fish it often.

basically looking for habitat and food.

You know those quaries just east of elmira that you can see from route 17, well with the floods we had this spring .......... I'm sure there are some holed up in them quaries and it'd be great to fish them for some length of time if you could get permission. They tend to hit the deep quarries for safety when we flood that high. Then water drops and they are trapped in them quarry pools.

Usually great catfishing in the quarries .... we got a couple small ones up this way thatI hit each spring for cats after the floods.

We got a couple spots between owego and johnson city that get upwards 20 to 25 feet deep and one of the deep spots goes for atleast a mile. We are fortunate to have some the deepest spots on the river right here in town.

As for the walleyes....... fast water, medium depth to deep,and big rocks bottoms. They tend to like to hang around big clucky snag rocks. I like using mister twisters right on bottom with good results for walleyes. Plus they cheap and no harm if lost.

Fall is here, get the poles out cuz the big fish start mass feeding to put the pounds on for winter.

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

I believe that it is a tiger muskie.

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

nevermind

RE: What kind of fish is this????
 

Definitely a tiger muskie.

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Never seen one of them before

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They aren't as common as a regular muskie but I know of a few places locally where they have been caught. Mostly large lakes or reservoirs.