Old musky inc/Chautauqua lake tournament!

[John Edward]

Thought the musky inc members and the guys who fish Chautauqua lake might find this interesting so I figured I would share this small article in a magazine I have

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[Tigerhunter]

Thanks for sharing! Four points in the article are interesting to me, that there was a MI chapter previously, a $5,000 prize, a new boat for a prize, and the fact that there was a "kept" division.

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[John Edward]

Yeah man I thought the same thing and I would love to know what kind of boat they gave away

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Edited December 9, 2016 by John Edward

[muskiedreams]

There was a chapter in Buffalo at one time too. Here is a link to another forum where a guy says his dad was the president of the chapter. There is also a great pic of a spawning pair of muskies.

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/171188-buffalo-nywny-fishing/?page=14

[NPike]

Although my MPB from Chautauqua is 39". I've been in the boat when my buddy got a 48". Perhaps some of you have done better? From what I here from Mikes and other fisherman they take plenty of big fish out of Chautauqua. The DEC nets giant fish each spring. It's good to see the fishery remains so healthy for Musky's in both size and quantity.

[Ivan]

Cool article. Thanks for posting. I saw an old CanAm tournament video from Chautauqua that was professionally filmed. Ray and Shorty Elkins won the tournament with quite a few fish and landed a 50 while being filmed. John Parry (Parrywinkle) was in the video too. Its cool to see some of this older stuff.

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Edited December 10, 2016 by Ivan

[Ivan]

Although my MPB from Chautauqua is 39". I've been in the boat when my buddy got a 48". Perhaps some of you have done better? From what I here from Mikes and other fisherman they take plenty of big fish out of Chautauqua. The DEC nets giant fish each spring. It's good to see the fishery remains so healthy for Musky's in both size and quantity.

I've been fishing Chautauqua pretty consistently for muskies since 1998. We always released nice fish up to 49" there, but never a 50" until 2014. Then 3 up to 53" there in 2 seasons. Back to normal in 2016...a 49" was our biggest there this year.

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Edited December 10, 2016 by Ivan

[John Edward]

Those are some big muskies thanks for sharing.. this lake really produces some big fish.. always wanted to get up that way but it is almost 3.5 hrs away so I stick with st Lawrence and floating down the smaller rivers that flow out

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[Ivan]

We fish Chautauqua about every weekend we can as long as we aren't on a trip to Canada somewhere. Can't blame you about not making it there. If I was closer to the the St Lawrence i'd never make it to Chq either.

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[John Edward]

Yeah I'm only about 2 hrs 30 min give or take.. we have given the river a break for quite a few years now but gonna start back up this summer.. get very excited about that but I did do a float down st Regis and we really got into the muskies biggest one was 46 but for a small river and a one day trip I would say that is a good day

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[NPike]

Nice fish Ivan. I'm well over 2 hours way and typically get there maybe 2ce a year.  Great lake when I do.

Edited December 10, 2016 by NPike