After about a week both males and females leave the mating grounds. Those baby muskies will be all on their own from that moment.
Ouch, talking about tough parenting! I am sure you can imagine what happens with the newly hatched muskies. Well, after being abended by their parents they will most likely be eaten by other predator fish like northern pike, perch, bass and sunfish.
The age of a musky can be determined by using two methods. The first one is by using the cleithrum a membrane bone which first appears as part of the skeleton in primitive bony fish, where it runs vertically along the scapula a calcified structure that requires lethal sampling and is collected from harvested fish anglers bring into taxidermy shops.
As you can see most growing happens withing the first five years of their life. Males mature in four to five years, at 28 to 31 inches and females mature in five to seven years, at 30 to 36 inches. Same as with northern pike, the female muskies do grow faster than males. Growth and ultimate size can vary among bodies of water, depending on factors such as lake productivity, forage and genetics. As mentioned in the previous chapter, young muskies face a variety of threats but what about adult muskies?
How old do muskies get, and how long does it take to grow a incher? The oldest muskellunge I have aged was 22 years, and muskellunge in Canadian waters have been aged up to 30 years old. In both cases, ages were assessed using the cleithrum, a calcified structure that requires lethal sampling and is collected from harvested fish anglers bring into taxidermy shops.
Various studies have since found the scale aging method underestimates age, particularly for larger fish. Growth and ultimate size can vary among bodies of water, depending on factors such as lake productivity, forage and genetics. A New Weight Chart. Back when how much meat a Musky would provide was of greater concern than how much the fish weighed, people didn't pay as much attention to a Musky weight or exact measurements.
There were no contests or widely publicized world record listings. One early, possibly record class Musky catch whose exact size remains unknown was taken by pioneer guide Allison Drake. Drake who during the twilight of his long guiding career was said to have been the oldest guide in the world from point of service 63 years - began guiding during the early s at the age of 15, while his father, Fred Drake, was operating a stopping place on the West Fork of the Chippewa River near Hayward, Wisconsin.
Being able to catch Musky practically from his hack door, young Allison learned to be a skilled boatsman and was soon guiding - poling river boats from Radisson, up the Chippewa River and to the West Fork, giving guests who were coming up river a chance to fish along the way.
The Musky Allison huge that caught was said to have been taken around and, according to Allison, was caught on a spoon in the West Fork of the Chippewa River, just up from where McGuire's Bar is now located.
Allison's fish bottomed out his pound scale but, not really being that concerned about what the fish's weight was, he just cut it up for the meat! So how big was it? Well, with Allison known to be a tall man, standing around or ; from studying the photo of his Musky, it's evident that his Musky ranged between 56 to 58 inches in length.
And, with the current world record Musky at the time weighing just 51 pounds 3 ounces, Allison's thick bodied fish would have been undoubtedly heavier and could have been a world record Musky weighing possibly 55 pounds or more , had it been registered. Back then, it really wasn't that big of a deal.
Since the passing of those early days though, Musky fishing is now being done for sport, rather than as a means of providing sustenance. Since then. A Musky's weight, and not its length, has always been regarded as being the more descriptive assessment of a Musky's size. Because the build of a Musky can vary greatly, a fish's length may not tell us that much about the Musky's true size. A fish that measures 50 inches sounds like it's a pretty impressive catch but, if it's a skinny one in the pound class , it doesn't have to be as big as it sounds.
But if that same fish was super fat and thick bodied all the way through, it could actually be twice as big. So it's the weight that is the true determiner of what you really have. And it's the weight that determines who the true world record holders are.
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