World Record Tiger Caught Through the ice.

http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2009/02/syracuse_man_sets_new_world_re.html

45 inches 22 1/2 girth. Here Piggy Piggy.

Nice fish

I always liked using shiners for good tip-up bait……….

Boy I was confused there for a moment … I see it is a “caught by tip-up record”. One of our main musky guiding lakes gets up in the low 50s for length and all we have is Tigers.

Anyway you look at it though it is a beautiful fish.

I would have liked to see him squeeze a 22 1/2″ girth fish through an ice hole. That must have been a sight.

Wow! What a adrenalin rush that must have been. I caught a 39 incher during the 1984-85 ice season on an old Schooly rod and reel spooled with about 25′ of 2lb test with a teardrop/waxworm. Spent 45 minutes getting her up through a 8″ hole with 40″ of ice. At that time I thought she might have been a world record within a line class and so forth. Contacted the ‘people’ and it was more hassle than I cared to deal with. What a difference 6 or 7 inches make in these fish!