Cumberland musky

[SSKY]

Just intrested as to your thoughts about musky in cumberland. The stocking in Tenn has made a viable but poor fishery in the upper south fork.If I am mistaken i thought I viewed a rather large musky on KY afeild from the south fork. If the lake stays stable for several more years. the musky that are stocked in Tenn will reproduce and will come down to cumberland there is no way to stop it. They will come hate it or like it that is the question?

[mhall]

Just intrested as to your thoughts about musky in cumberland. The stocking in Tenn has made a viable but poor fishery in the upper south fork.If I am mistaken i thought I viewed a rather large musky on KY afeild from the south fork. If the lake stays stable for several more years. the musky that are stocked in Tenn will reproduce and will come down to cumberland there is no way to stop it. They will come hate it or like it that is the question?

I'd like it I think? Impack on the fishery, I'm unsure about. Gives another target fish that could be a blast. My wife and I saw what I believe was a monster Musky several years back right beside submarine Island towards the mouth of Indian. It was a seriously large one too.

[PatientlyWading24]

There are Muskie in cumberland already and have been there for a while. There is a picture of a guy in a local shop with a desent muskie at about 37" while bass fishing there.
I talked to a Striper guide about and he said that years back ( I don't remember when) There was a stocking truck full of Muskie and it was either heading south to TN or North to Cave Run, and the areator went out when they were near Cumberland. All of the fish that were in that truck would have died, so they made the decision to dump them into Cumberland and hope for the best. The survival rate wasn't very good at all, but most stocking attempts arn't (there is only a 10% survival rate on Striper in Cumberland). So they are in there but few and far between.
Personally if the habitat can hold them, why not, that lake is so huge. A lot of people think that Muskie are going to eat all the bass and game fish, and because of that hate the species. Thats not really true, they normally only eat species like that if they are already injured, or appear to be so.
TN has made an excellent trophy striper fishery below the dam due to their striper stocking efforts down stream. Maybe their stocking Muskie will also be a good thing. Im all for it.