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Hi All, I love fishing in NYS and rarely in Ontario. I tend to spin cast for toothy critters, mostly pike but musky and tigers as well. My home lake is Conesus which I'll fish at least 40 times a year. I also fish some of the other Finger lakes and Chautauqua on occasion. Don't mind catching a mess of perch every once in a blue moon. Every 5 or 7 years I fly into sub-artic Ontario for walleyes and trophy pike. Like to fish with people but also love fishing alone, just great to be out on the water as long as the wind is down. Cheers and tight lines!

Tiger Musky fishing on Conesus is good. I got a ~24 pounder (doing a girth length est.) 44" last year and several between 34" to 38". All very thick bodied fish, more so than pike in general. However they aren't a dime a dozen. I sometimes wonder if they don't fight harder than either of their parents that is the Musky or the pike, they seem to be on steroids. In general Conesus has many more bass than anything other game fish. Then for every say 7 - 8 pike, I get 1 tiger. The nice thing about the tigers is that even though they are not as big as their Musky parent they do provide for trophy angling in Conesus, since they outgrow the pike as a rule. Tigers close to 30 pounds have come out of Conesus.