3/12 report

[Deadstream]

Nice research Dan.  Check out the price of razor blades in that paper... 

[Bigred327]

Nice report, I was just curious if you put in under the bridge at Aldridge and went up river ? Or is there a better place to launch. I couldn't  get through there last year, because of shallow water. I'll be up today in an old Ranger Aztec 1750, thanks for any launching advice.

[Walcrabass]

I personally would like some input from the very highly respected and intelligent on "fish matters" Straw Hat. Please give us the straight of it on the "Tiger Muskies" that were at one time stocked in Stockton Lake. If you know why it was stopped give us that info also. If the Lake Biologist would like to give comment on this as well I would appreciate it.

 

Wally

[denjac]

I remember in the mid 70's when they stocked tiger muskies. They are a hybrid. They figured out real quick they were wrong for the fisherie and stopped stocking them. Then just let nature take its course and let them die out. I even vaguely remember a bounty being put on them. 

[Bitethis]

7 hours ago, Bigred327 said:

Nice report, I was just curious if you put in under the bridge at Aldridge and went up river ? Or is there a better place to launch. I couldn't  get through there last year, because of shallow water. I'll be up today in an old Ranger Aztec 1750, thanks for any launching advice.

 

We put in at aldrich, and happen to know right where the channel is. Still shallow at about 4', but we run it on plane...all I can say is go slow, trim up, get a topo map to show the channel if possible, or take someone knowledgable. I wouldn't put in at steel bridge, even with a 4x4, after all that rain this weekend. It would be a gamble.

[Bitethis]

I didn't take a picture of it, I am sorry. Wasn't my fish...I will say this, I believe it was a musky due to the reddish/orangish color on it's fins and tail. I believe tiger musky can have that too, and I honestly didn't think about it being tiger musky until it was posted here. However, my first though was this...hang on for the ride!!!

We had some pretty big rains earlier this, lake levels were insane. Springfield lake is fed from Stockton...Springfield lake is stocked with Musky....see where I am going with this?? Could be way off, I definitely don't claim to be an expert. I do feel strongly it was a regular Musky though, but as I previously stated I would have doubted the person sharing this story's ability to identify fish had they told me this same thing. So no love lost in the debate over a fish that didn't get its picture taken in a body of water it doesn't belong in...sounds like a fishing story if I ever heard one.

[Flysmallie]

20 minutes ago, Bitethis said:

Springfield lake is fed from Stockton...Springfield lake is stocked with Musky....

It's actually Fellows lake. Fellows lake is sometimes fed from Stockton and it also feeds into Stockton. It would be possible for a musky to escape Fellows and eventually make it closer to Stockton I guess. Couple of obstacles but it's possible.

Or I could catch one in Pomme and deposit it into Stockton.

[bologna]

Would be a fluke if it was from fellows.  It would have had to of gone over 2 big dams and one small one.   Strange deal.

[trythisonemv]

Six inches of rain in two hours may have helped it get over the dams lol! Probably a transplant from somewhere else or they are reproducing in very small numbers. High rain years always yield weird fish. Crappie are back up by bennet springs mouth again. I haven't seen that since I was a kid. Nice story and good report.

[BilletHead]

    Fish can do some amazing things. If it wasn't transferred by man. I think it was last year or the year before there was one caught at Caplinger Mills. Only thing I could think of it went through the dam somehow out of Pomme? Could that happen MoPanfisher? Travel down to Truman Lake and work it's way back up the Sac arm up the river to Caplinger? Now with this fish caught at Stockton maybe the Caplinger catch came from over the spillway from that lake one time or another?

   Tythisonemv, after seeing the rain and where you were going yesterday when I got up I at five AM  almost gave you a pm and seen if you wanted to go with me. I could of used some help on those fly rod crappie yesterday morning. Same river but a bit farther of a trip :).

BilletHead