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Newly On Shore or on Water
Dredged
“Marked” On display at
the Grace
Deep Performance
Channel! booth at last
Fall’s Boat
A true Lake St. Clair local’s bar since 1976 Show at Lake
Home of the Famous Raft Burger! St. Clair Met-
ropark, this
7707 Dyke Rd. just off M29 on northern Lake St. Clair new hybrid
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Open Daily Year Round ~ Outside Seating Available in Season a show stoppper.
The “Quadski” is powered by a BMW engine and
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Is it a Pike Jim from Ron from Indiana
or a Muskie Ohio with a with a Muskie in
Tiger Muskie Anchor Bay
..... or a caught near
“Tiger” Fair Haven
Muskie
Hybrid?
Through one of our avid
Muskie fisherman guests,
Jim from Ohio, I learned

something new last sea- Christina which are often called
son. Lake St. Clair has a from tiger muskies, are quite
hybrid species of Muskie Mattawan, distinctive in appear-
….”Tiger Muskie.” MI with a ance and would be very
I shared some 32” Pike difficult to mistake for
photos with Michael Thomas, our Lake St. Clair Fisheries Sta- a northern pike. How-
tion Research Biologist. He commented that Tiger muskies ever, Mike confirmed
have not been stocked in Lake St. Clair at any time. The thought that catching and
is there is a low level of natural hybridization that takes place keeping one would
between our spotted muskellunge and northern pike. The in-
cidence of hybridization seems to have increased some during

the past 5-7 years, which Mike thought may be due to the low- fall under your One

er lake levels compressing the spawning habitat for northern Single Annual Musk-

pike and muskellunge in the lake, resulting in more overlap ie Permit, which you
during spawning.
The “spotted muskellunge…northern pike hybrids” can get for free when you purchase your fishing license.
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