Tiger Muskies

Tigers are stocked in many bodies of water. Tigers are also cheaper for the hatcheries to raise beacuse they eat pellet food. Were aas purebred muskies have to fed live minnow becuase they do not make the transition from pellet to live food. Another thing that is appealing for the PAFBC is that tigers are a hibred which meens it grown bigger faster but doesnt live as long as a purebred counterpart. But they are starting to scale back on stocking tigers over purebreds to to releave compotition from the naturaly repoducing muskies in these waters. They are trying to make a more selfsustaining fishies and taking some of the burden off of them. I'd rather catch purbred over tigers but I woulnt pass up either!

Which bodies of water are you talking about where tigers are stocked in this area. What I found was I think 2006 was last year they were stocked around here, and only in those 2 bodies of water I mentioned earlier.  I've seen and caught a few, but not in areas where they have been supposedly stocked since before 1991.

...They are absolutely beautiful fish, no doubt, but I wish theyd just do away with the tigers, and put those resources and efforts into the purebreds only. They had stocked one water body in my area with them for many years, and through the years I had only caught a coupla small ones, 18 and 24 inches or so, and know of very few others that had been caught, none of current "legal" size. But have caught many more purebreds. Also some of the real avid musky hunters around here take 20-30 some or more per season in that same body of water. WIth most years ZERO tiger catches among them. That despite the fact they had stocked around equal numbers of both...slightly more tigers.. through the years. Tells me that tigers might be a waste of money.

From what I know of the muskie stocking program, it seems the previous poster is right, theyre leaning more towards purebreds. I also think PFBC in general, does a great job with the musky program.

Hybrid stockings in some cases can allow a fishery to be established in waters that might not otherwise support one. Populations can be more easily contolled, protecting poulation of other species natural or stocked.

Many of the local waters are "Brood stocking" waters, so it would not be in the best interests of the PFBC to put in fish that are unable to provide the reasorces to keep stocking fish.

I understand what you mean a random stocking, but that will eventually equate to man hours sorting fish from the traps nets they set to catch the fish so they can milk them. So it does not make sense to put in tigers.

A simpler example would be if you had a corn field that you plant everyyear just to harvest for the seeds so you can plant your other fields, you would not throw in the occosinal soybean row. So the lakes around here need to stay pure strain for the simple act of maintaining the states musky fishery

Woodcock is a brood stock lake, and Pmy is not fall under the brrod stock resitrictions, how ever they do trap net the no fishing zone to get fish for stocking... so it is almost the same as a brood stock, and not be in the best interest of the PFBC to put in tigers.

try fishing justus lake, it is relativily close

If you personally have a passion to have them stocked locally, why dont you get in touch with the PFBC. They have a office in meadville. Your ideas will not do much to get the ball rolling on the forum. Take them to the PFBC, they are the people who can do somthing about it.