West Metro tigers

[workin4bait]

According to the Outdoor News there is a meeting to discuss the end of stocking tiger muskies in 5 west metro lakes;Eagle,Pierson and Wasserman in Caver county and Bush and Weaver in Hennepin county.The meeting is at the DNR West Metro Fisheries office in Shakopee on May 2 from 6:30-8pm.

I thought it was set in stone that stocking tigers was over in these lakes?

workin'

[ThunderLund78]

I never heard it was set in-stone, but I know stocking isn't as successful in some lakes as it is in others. I used to fish Pierson quite a bit, mainly for Pike and Bass ad the only one I ever saw come out of there was one Buddy caught by accident before Muskie season even started. Nice fish, but just didn't hear of a lot coming out of there.

[crix]

If they drop the tigers there they should try other lakes like Prior lake

[Nolan]

I tried Eagle once. Only God knows if I had any interested, the water was pea green and I barely made it out of the ramp it was so slippery with algae.

[RawHog]

If they drop the tigers there they should try other lakes like Prior lake

Yeah I hope they do stock more lakes with them, too. I only fish tigers specifically about 5 times a year, but I love bass fishing and just being on lakes that have tigers because there is always that chance of a hook-up cuz those things are voracious!

[JBMasterAngler]

It'd be nice if they picked several lakes that weren't smack dab in the middle of the metro area to stock.

[RawHog]

It would be nice to see some tiger lakes in the Brainerd area and Alex area as well.

[BIGRED07]

have to appease the metro people first, maybe the southern MN area seeing as we have a whopping 3 lakes with muskies

[50inchpig]

the tiger stocking is being discontinued because the dnr and mmpa/mi/etc agreed to focus on building and maintaing a trophy fishery in MN, and it was more cost-efficient to grow big pure strain muskies. i think this was part of the long range plan (not that the LRP means anything now) and I kind of thought tiger stocking had already been curtailed in a few lakes.

stocking lake tetonka is still a high priority unless the mmpa bulldozes us again and gets spearing bans lifted without making any concessions, as per their MO.

some of my favorite pics are of metro tigers, but like most others if i had to choose i'd take the bigger pure strains.

and JB - don't forget lake elmo still has lots of tigers in it and I might be mistaken, but I think it might be one of the tiger lakes they will continue to stock. probably one of the better lakes for a big one too.

[Zelmsdawg]

I thought they stopped stocking piersons a few years ago? I like the lake, nice and quiet usually. When bass fishing years ago I'd see a couple fish in the 40" range chilling up shallow but never really gave it a try for muskies.

[workin4bait]

I thought they stopped stocking piersons a few years ago? I like the lake, nice and quiet usually. When bass fishing years ago I'd see a couple fish in the 40" range chilling up shallow but never really gave it a try for muskies.

Pierson and Wasserman have not been stocked since 2006,and with a 8-10 year life expentancy they are on their final leg[fin].

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[JBMasterAngler]

Yeah, elmo will be as out in the country as it gets. Should be even more big ones in there now that there's an established cisco population, and for the time being they're stocking it with trout. I'm gonna fish it for the 1st time this fall.

[thrax]

Just a note. For anyone wanting additional muskie waters stocked in MN right now, the MMPA is doing a million times more than anyone else to make that happen. Including and most importantly right now for Tetonka.

[tolle141]

Just a note. For anyone wanting additional muskie waters stocked in MN right now, the MMPA is doing a million times more than anyone else to make that happen. Including and most importantly right now for Tetonka.

Could you elaborate more? Not up to speed on their activities and I'm sure there are quite a few on here who would like to hear about it.

Thanks

[thrax]

MMPA reps and board members have put in hundreds probably approaching thousands of hours with the DNR, legislators, and local stakeholders in the Tetonka area. Local businesses, landowners, civic groups, chambers, watershed interests etc. They are the only real voice for muskie interests in MN. Muskies Inc while it's a great group, doesn't interject itself in any direct way anymore anywhere really. Not as a national organization. Local chapters do some (these same guys are the reps/board members mentioned above in most cases). The majority of attendees at a recent esox workshop were MMPA/Muskies Inc members. These guys have dedicated their whole lives to support muskie and other conservation interests in MN. They are working to hold the DNR accountable to things like the Long Range Plan. I'd encourage you to check into their activities a little more. Without their grassroots efforts, dedication and countless hours spent there would be no progress in new muskie waters in MN and likely there would have been existing stocked waters that would have been phased out in the recent past. This is just a simple opinion and basic info from a humble guy that doesn't want to see the group thrown under the bus, who feels that without them we'd be a lot worse off. They are also strong advocates for other conservation efforts, the fight against invasive species, responsible and intelligent pike management and support many other conservation groups from across a full spectrum of resource users.

[JackPineGuy]

If they drop the tigers there they should try other lakes like Prior lake

now thats a FAAAAAACT. why stock a sink hole like peirson and wassermen when tigers would absolutely thrive in prior. ive said it for years. im all about stocking tigers in dozens of lakes like that. tetonka is a poor choice to stock because of its river system. instaed of creating a great fishery there gonna creat several lakes with very low density populations, tetonka is really an awfull dissision

[B17]

Bush used to be a good lake and it sucks now. Muskies wiped it dead clean. Its super rare to catch anything of worth in that lake regardless of species. Most people that say they fish it have caught a single good fish in years there.

[Shawn Kellett]

B17, Bush is as worthless today as it was 30 years ago when it comes to catching anything of size. Panfish, bass, pike (when you could get them) have always been small on that lake. One of the hopes was that the tigers would thin out some of the panfish and improve the size structure. That didn't happen obviously.