Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - Printable Version

Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - Printable Version

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Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - JArner - 02-26-2022

Last night I invited a friend and his son out for the late night crappie at PV. We got to the parking lot around 6:45 and it was full so we parked behind several others on the shoulder across from the caretakers house. It was 17 degrees and dropped to 10 when we got back around 11:30.

Found a spot with 37-40’ of water and lots of marks in the water column. Fishing wasn’t hot but it was decent. Pulled in fish every couple of minutes. The time went quickly with the help of some dinner cooked over the heater. Around 10:30 we decided to call it quits at 11. At 10:50 my friend hooked into a huge tiger musky. We got it to the bottom of the holes after a few minutes of letting her run with line. We could not get the head turned up the hole, but could see that she would have filled up the 8” opening. Saw head and tail across 4 of the five holes I had drilled. The picture is from a video I shot during some of the fight.

Fun night but very cold and a hell of a hike up that hill. Glad there were a few of us to get the gear up. Seems like everyone packs up around the same time.

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RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - Jig-fisher - 02-26-2022

Sounds like a good night. Too bad on losing that big musky. Did you have to use glow stuff or did it matter?

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - JArner - 02-26-2022

Thanks Paul, yes it was a good night out there. Glow stuff was definitely better than the other offerings. Had to recharge them often.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - TubeDude - 02-26-2022

(02-26-2022, 06:30 PM)JArner Wrote: Last night I invited a friend and his son out for the late night crappie at PV. We got to the parking lot around 6:45 and it was full so we parked behind several others on the shoulder across from the caretakers house. It was 17 degrees and dropped to 10 when we got back around 11:30.

Found a spot with 37-40’ of water and lots of marks in the water column. Fishing wasn’t hot but it was decent. Pulled in fish every couple of minutes. The time went quickly with the help of some dinner cooked over the heater. Around 10:30 we decided to call it quits at 11. At 10:50 my friend hooked into a huge tiger musky. We got it to the bottom of the holes after a few minutes of letting her run with line. We could not get the head turned up the hole, but could see that she would have filled up the 8” opening. Saw head and tail across 4 of the five holes I had drilled. The picture is from a video I shot during some of the fight.

Fun night but very cold and a hell of a hike up that hill. Glad there were a few of us to get the gear up. Seems like everyone packs up around the same time.

Had a tough time making out your fish in the pic you posted. So I copied it and lightened it up a bit. Easier to see the monster under the ice.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - JArner - 02-26-2022

Thanks Pat, yes it’s tough to make out. I do wish I had kept recording.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - MWScott72 - 02-26-2022

I still can't see it! Sad

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - JArner - 02-27-2022

Here is the video link.

https://youtube.com/shorts/rtG0Cj5BPbQ?feature=share

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - hookngrinin - 02-28-2022

Wow! That is a monster muskie. Thanks for sharing the video.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - JArner - 02-28-2022

(02-28-2022, 01:09 AM)hookngrinin Wrote: Wow! That is a monster muskie. Thanks for sharing the video.

Thanks, yes that was a monster. One we won’t soon forget.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - sliverslinger - 03-01-2022

What a giant! Did the muskie take your crappie rig?

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - JArner - 03-01-2022

(03-01-2022, 02:50 PM)sliverslinger Wrote: What a giant! Did the muskie take your crappie rig?

I believe it came in and swiped at the blue/silver kastmaster, and got snagged with the rat finke on it's way out.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - TubeDude - 03-01-2022

(03-01-2022, 05:39 PM)JArner Wrote:
(03-01-2022, 02:50 PM)sliverslinger Wrote: What a giant! Did the muskie take your crappie rig?

I believe it came in and swiped at the blue/silver kastmaster, and got snagged with the rat finke on it's way out.

As big as they are, tigers still occasionally slurp some small lures being fished for other species. I know of several caught through the ice on bitty bites being worked for crappies or perch. And the pic below is of a 36 incher I caught from my float tube in November one year while fishing small jigs on the bottom in over 40 feet up near the buoy line. The jig was well inside the fish's mouth and I was only using 6# mono. In spite of a couple of jumps and a lot of cavorting the line held long enough for me to bring the fish to net.

RE: Pineview 2/25 - Crappie Musky - 2knots - 03-02-2022

Huge fish, that would of been a thrill for sure