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Tiger muskellunge. The tiger muskellunge (Esox masquinongy × lucius or Esox lucius × masquinongy), [1] commonly called tiger muskie, is a carnivorous fish, and is the usually sterile, hybrid offspring of the true muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and the northern pike (Esox lucius). It lives in fresh water and its range extends to Canada, the ...
Muskellunge are found in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes and large rivers from northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota through the Great Lakes region, Chautauqua Lake in western New York, north into Canada, throughout most of the St Lawrence River drainage, and northward throughout the upper Mississippi valley, although the species also extends as far south as ...
Curlew Lake is a 921-acre (3.73 km 2) lake located in the glacier-carved Curlew Valley northeast of Republic, Washington. [1] The spring- and stream-fed lake is named for the long-billed curlew, Numenius americanus, that once frequented the area. [2] The 7-mile-long (11 km) lake reaches a maximum of 1⁄3 miles wide and includes four small islands.
Muskie fishing opens in Minnesota this weekend, but excitement for the season's first days isn't what it once was. That's because the state's lakes and rivers hold fewer muskies than they did a ...
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus, in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ, romanized: umingmak; in Woods Cree: ᒫᖨᒨᐢ, romanized: mâthi-môs, ᒫᖨᒧᐢᑐᐢ, mâthi-mostos), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. [8] Native to the Arctic, it is noted for ...
Nevis Tiger Muskie. The Nevis Tiger Muskie is a sculpture located at 114-122 Bunyan Trails Rd, Nevis, Minnesota. [1] The sculpture is known as the world's largest tiger muskie. [2] It is a representation of the tiger muskellunge, a carnivorous fish found in local waters. It is 30 feet and 6 inches long, and made of cedar and redwood covered ...
The Tiger Muskellunge resides in lakes and large rivers with rocky bottoms and heavy cover, they also prefer shallow waters. Tiger Muskellunge diet will consist of fish, frogs, waterfowl, mice and other mammals and birds. The Tiger Muskellunge can grow up to 22 to 50 inches long and weigh from 3 to 40 pounds and will live up to 10 years. [62]
The northern pike gets its common name from its resemblance to the pole-weapon known as the pike (from the Middle English for 'pointed'). Various other unofficial trivial names are common pike, Lakes pike, great northern pike, great northern, northern (in the U.S. Upper Midwest and in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), jackfish, jack, slough shark, snake, slimer ...