Reply With QuoteThat is just an awesome fish! Where's Mayfield, up in Washington? I'm definitely gonna have to make a trip to somewhere with these bad boys!
3 1/2 foot Muskie- Mayfield Lake!
Had a trout fishing itch, so took a trip up to Mayfield- waste of time! Trolled ALL day. We each had a trout on for about 2 seconds- that was all the action we until about 4pm. We trolled across a big point and my pole bounced on the downrigger- then pulled off the release. I was glad to have a fish bite for once! I could tell it wasn't a stocker but it was not active at all (43-44 degree water) It swam slowly around as if i didn't know or care that 6lb. test and a trout rod was trying to hold him back. Still took about 10 minutes to pull him slowly to the surface- were we SURPRISED! WOW- LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!!!!!!
I tried lifting him up to the side of the boat for a picture but this was as close as I got. It may have been sluggish in the water, but try as I could to hold onto his tail and lift under the belly- three times he would wiggle so hard that I could not hold on. I could have unceremoniously drug him in and flopped him on the deck, but I wasn't willing to do that to him, so I just gave up and let him swim off! Would have loved to have a picture holding that guy, but it was not to be.
Made the day seem so much better!
( 2 inch spoon-nickel w/red head- 16 feet down-riggied in 20 ft of water)
Jim
That is just an awesome fish! Where's Mayfield, up in Washington? I'm definitely gonna have to make a trip to somewhere with these bad boys!
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thats amazing i had no idea we even had those on the whole west coast i always wanted to get onewhere all do we have them around oregon and washington???
Great looking fish!
Awesome catch of the day!
Lake Mayfield is up by Mossyrock,Wa. 68 miles north of Portland.
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Mayfield is about 15 miles north of Longview- then 25 miles east on Hwy 12.
Just under 2 hours from the 205 bridge.
Yes, we knew they were there. There's a sign at the fee box that says to please consider releasing all that are caught- although you are allowed one over 50 inches!
Lake Merwin also has muskie. That's the only two places I know of around here.
Jim
edit: I just read that a 32" tiger muskie was caught in the Willamette in Oregon CIty in May of 2000. My understanding is though that they are a hybrid and sterile, so no chance of proliferating. Probably a bucket biologist put it in there.
Here's a quote from another story:
June 2009, According to Bolding, all seven of Washington’s musky lakes — Merwin, Mayfield, Tapps, Evergreen, Curlew, Silver and Newman — got their full allotment of “big, healthy-looking” 13 1/2-inch tigers this spring.
A guy caught a 48 1/2 incher, 37lbs.in May of '09.
Last edited by trollin4trout; 01-31-2010 at 06:12 AM.
I was gonna ask if that was a tigermuskie. I read some articles about them awhile back. Wouldn't mind them putting some down here somewhere but they would probably eat all the natural fish. Maybe they could put them in some ponds. Nice looking fish man!
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