2022 MN musky opener

My first muskie this season on my second trip targeting them. My friend also caught one, 10 minutes later.

Nice job gimruis. You know musky slime in the boat attracts more muskies! Hope you get some bigger ones.

Beautiful tigers!

I posted this already but thought I’d add it on here. Roughly 48” (didn’t bump it) caught over the 4th.

What a great picture and memory – the fish is probably longer than your boy!

tswoboda wrote:

Beautiful tigers!

Agreed. Tigers are probably one of the prettiest fish in freshwater. I have caught so few of them however. The only ones I have caught were natural occurring ones on lakes not stocked with tigers.

tswoboda wrote:

What a great picture and memory – the fish is probably longer than your boy!

It sure was, and something he will be talking about for years to come if our current rate of discussion is an indicator

tswoboda wrote:

Beautiful tigers!

I got another small tiger muskie this morning before the rain. It jumped and got some major air a couple times. As rodwork said, muskie slime attracts more muskies. Going to keep trying for something a little bigger though. I might try upsizing my presentation next time. Last season I caught four of them and they were all 37-40 inches in this particular lake, so it has potential.

Thats Awesome gimruis! Finally got a solid 42″ my buddy caught in my boat last week. They finally seem to be eating vs just following. Will be out tomorrow so hopefully I can get a picture up of me with one!

Finally got into some bigger fish yesterday. My Father and I caught these yesterday in the morning.

Around 9:15am I hooked into what felt like a submarine. We got a good look at it when it surfaced a ways out and it was significantly bigger than any tiger muskie I’ve ever seen. I caught a 41 incher two years ago that I had a replica made for and this appeared to be much larger. When it surfaced, it shook its head and spit the hook. My best guess is that it was a 45+ inch tiger…and honestly I did not think they grew that big in this particular lake. My biggest pure strain muskie is 44 inches; this looked bigger than that as a tiger muskie.

Anyone else been muskie fishing? I caught muskie #7 on the season this morning. My record is 8.

Good thing they are hard to catch or everybody would be after them. Truly a beautiful fish and fun to see them in the water.

Anyone been muskie fishing? Kinda quiet on this one all season it seems.

Yes, but not in the metro. It’s been a good year up north though. I’m saving a little vacation to make a cannonball run when the weather becomes favorable late this fall. Looking for something really special to make a mistake!

Nice Brian!

I’ve purposefully fished for muskies once, didn’t get even a follow. One pike.

The only muskie I ever caught was while bass fishing in a Twin Cities lake. A six incher (likely recently stocked) hit a spinner bait. I thought it was a baby pike until it came to hand. Had a good chuckle.