Below you'll find a few pictures of what we've been doing since my last blog entry. We've been electrofishing to obtain baseline controls for the physiology portion of our study. However, some of the muskies we electrofished came from water temperatures lower than those we angled from, so we had to go back and try to capture (via hook-and-line) muskies from colder water. We caught two small muskies at 31 and 32 inches, one of which had an old surgically implanted radio tag from a tracking study conducted two years ago.
I'd like to extend a big THANK YOU to all the members of Muskies Canada that volunteered their time to help out with the project. Without your support none of this would be possible. To the NEC, thank you for helping fund Project Noble Beast! I'd also like to thank Muskies Inc. and the Becker Foundation for their financial contributions. Hopefully some of my fellow Americans can come up next summer to help volunteer with the study! Thanks everybody!Lastly, I will update this blog as new developments arise. Stay tuned!
Thanks for all of your work on the project Sean - there are a LOT of muskie nuts out there who are following the project closely. I'm sure they are already looking forward to your final report. In the meantime, I'm sure that most, if not all, of the volunteers from MCI will want to fish next season.... and here's hoping the first guy in line (Pepe) won't skunk up the boat next year! Have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow ;-)
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