Potential State record Walleye

[Tall Tails]

I got this from an Ice fishing forum I frequent.

16.9lbs Mystic Lake, western NY

It says its been confirmed but you know those rumors! Anyway Real Nice Fish!!!

[JR]

Someone found it before Landshark did, Now that going to Break his Heart

[Yankee Troller]

Someone found it before Landshark did, Now that going to Break his Heart

[Landshark]

I usually don't even take a picture if they are that small.

[ray koziatek]

Waaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANTED THAT ONE!!!!!!!! WHY ,WHY,WHY NOT MEEEEEEeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! (I noticed Landsharks last post was encrypted so i decoded it here is what it really said.)

[FX]

Shawn

[Sluggo / NY]

Ray.. That was a good one! You constantly come up with some beauties.. but I'm still laughing over that one! Good Fishing, Sluggo (Chris)

[Tim Bromund]

It's official. here's the DEC press release:

http://www.lotsa.org/RecordWalleye.pdf

Tim

[FISHINMAN]

Rick I think you need a BIGGER avatar on the bottom of your posts

[stubborn66]

HI

Where is Mystic Lake and does it go by another name? I see that it is in western NY and I belive it is a triibutary of hte Allegheney River but I cannot find out anyhting else about it. Does anyone here have any more information on this place?

Thanks

[jimski2]

There is a "Tunungwat Creek" coming into Bradford, PA that runs into New York's Allegany River. Just west of Limestone, NY is a pond or lake with no name.

[jimski2]

Another Creek called "Tuna Creek" runs from Bradford, PA north to the Allegany River.

This could be another name as there was a "Tuna Creek Railroad" that ran there a long time ago.

[Stinky Finger]

Mystic lake is a pond alongside Tungungwant creek in the town of Limestone bordering Allegheny State Park to it's west and the Pa / NY border to the south. Tungungwant creek is a tributary of the Allegheny river. There are a lot of ponds. oxbows and "borrow pits" along the Allegheny river and its tributaries in this area which blend with the river when levels rise in late winter/ spring. The borrow pits were gravel quarries when I86/Rt17 was constructed in the 70's.

Walleyes find their way into these backwaters during their spring spawning run and some of them stay behind after the river recedes, trapping them in the ponds. I've caught walleyes, pike and channel cats in the pits near Onoville on Kinzua when I camped there (Onoville Marina Park has cheap camping, great docks/launch and is right on the reservior just north of state line bay on the west shore). Be warned, there was quite a spate of outboard/ downrigger/ tackle thefts from moored boats on the reservior during the years I camped there through the 90's.

I'm reminded of another big walleye from when I lived on Rushford lake back in '03 or '04.

The story was a man and his 8 year old son decided to get into fishing so they bought a boat and began fishing Rushford lake. The man claimed he caught a 18 lb 3 oz walleye on Rushford. The fish was weighed at a local store. Great story about it in the paper at the time. Then DEC wants to see/ weigh the fish and the guy says he already cut it up. As days go by more comes out as several people claim to have seen the fish floating on the lake that day, apparently it had been hit by a jet ski and the guy finally had to admit he just netted it as a floater. After that it pretty much got forgotten but the fact remains that Rushford lake produced an 18 pound walleye, the guy was a shyster but a big fish is still a big fish.

[Richard Bullen]

Mike I hear in the background an ole song

O"Canada