Is it a Pike or a Muskie ..... or a “Tiger” Muskie Hybrid?

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Is it a Pike
or a Muskie
..... or a
“Tiger”
Muskie
Hybrid?
Jim from
Ohio with a
Tiger Muskie
caught near
Fair Haven
Ron from Indiana
with a Muskie in
Anchor Bay
Through one of our avid
Muskie fisherman guests,
Jim from Ohio, I learned
something new last season. Lake St. Clair has a
Christina
which are often called
hybrid species of Muskie
from
tiger muskies, are quite
….”Tiger Muskie.”
Mattawan, distinctive in appear
I shared some
MI with a ance and would be very
photos with Michael Thomas, our Lake St. Clair Fisheries Sta32” Pike
difficult to mistake for
tion Research Biologist. He commented that Tiger muskies
a northern pike. Howhave not been stocked in Lake St. Clair at any time. The thought
ever, Mike confirmed
is there is a low level of natural hybridization that takes place
that catching and
between our spotted muskellunge and northern pike. The inkeeping one would
cidence of hybridization seems to have increased some during
the past 5-7 years, which Mike thought may be due to the lowfall under your One
er lake levels compressing the spawning habitat for northern
Single Annual Muskpike and muskellunge in the lake, resulting in more overlap
ie Permit, which you
during spawning.
can get for free when you purchase your fishing license.
The “spotted muskellunge…northern pike hybrids” See at right for some easy tips to help identify your fish.
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