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Calling BS here. Yes, they are eating machines, but they will not clean out your lakes. We've got 'em in a lake near here, and the crappie and bass fishing have actually gotten better since they started stocking them. Small perch numbers are down, but there's plenty to go around. They get an undeserved wrap for eating everything in the lake. You have to remember these fish don't reproduce, so if they stock 500 fish, that's all you get.

They are nasty fish and seem to have a particular dislike for anything fished on the surface. I bass fish a lake stocked with tigers up here and have lost more than one buzz bait to these snaggletoothed bullies. Black and chartuese blades really seam to annoy them. I had one hit a spinner bait with a willow leaf blade on it so hard, he bent the blade in half and punctured it with the hook. Was throwing a Smithwick Devil's Horse one time and had one pop it a good two feet up in the air.

Unless the WI fish was caught very recently, the current world record came from Idaho, of all places. It was caught in August of '13. It weighed 44.26lb and was 52.5" long. Here's an article about it in Field and Stream. WORD RECORD

Quite likely bigger ones have been caught but never officially measured.

...use a GOOD steel leader for Tigers. Trust me on this.

We have them in several lakes here. Pineview Reservoir is only five miles from my house and tigers were introduced there to help control the overpopulation of stunted yellow perch. We used to be able to keep one a day, but there's been some kind of problem getting more tigers so they made it strictly catch and release.

I've had a couple of them on. Briefly. The fight doesn't last long on a crappie outfit. But it's a helluva fight while it lasts!

Yeah, I thought that 30" figure was kind of odd. They have to be 42" here to keep.

Since the world record is 44", they must not keep very many.

R.C., I believe you might be thinking of weight rather than length. The current world record is 44lbs and some ounces and 52+ inches long, IIRC.

Oops. You're right. It's too early in the morning and I haven't had nearly enough coffee yet.

We use to smoke them years ago before the limits,but only if they did not make it better then letting them float down river.They were real good smoked.