I was looking on Lake-link.com and searched for musky lakes in Allegan county and Dumont lake came up. I was wondering if anyone has fished it or knows anything about it. Was also wondering if it has natural muskies in it or if its one of those lakes stocked with tigers in the late 80's. Any information would be helpful, thanks in advance.
Dumont was a Tiger lake… there are no records of any "Natural" muskies being stocked in there. My brother has fished it quite a bit for northerns with one of his buddies who lives on the lake and they haven't contacted any. His buddy hasn't seen or caught a Tiger there for at least 5 years, but the last one he caught was 46 inches. I think they are all gone.
Disclaimer- I only provide this info because I am a musky geek, and I can't help myself. This really doesn't change or discredit Scott's answer at all, BUT… there actually were pure muskies stocked in Dumont back in 1965 and 1970 (2000 and 1500 fall fingerlings respectively). So that leaves just the slightest sliver of a possiblity that maybe there could be a musky still in there (descendants of course), if you wanted an excuse to fish it! But in reality of course, no, there are probably not any in there or somebody would have caught or seen them. The only time I fished it, at the very end of the Tiger era, I could have sworn I saw a dinky true musky… but I'm sure I was just halucinating like I always do, 24/7, about muskies.
Do a search for Dumont lake and it does say northern strain muskies were stocked in there.????? I do remember my old work buddy Wayne saying his dad and uncle used to nail muskies out of there way back in the day.I said ya tigers,and he said "no,.. real ones"(as opposed to the fake ones)LOL.
Heck I dont know.I fished it once about 4 years ago armed with sucker minnows and all I got was a smaller pike.
"kid coulson" said:
Do a search for Dumont lake and it does say northern strain muskies were stocked in there.?????
Northern muskellunge were stocked in 1965 and 1970; they were replaced with tiger muskellunge in 1971-1991 stocked at a rate of 4 to 13 fall fingerlings per acre. A spearing ban and a size limit increase to 30 inches for both northern pike and muskellunge went into effect in 1968 to protect the muskellunge fishery from overexploitation. The spearing ban is still in effect. Dumont Lake was used for northern muskellunge and northern pike broodstock collections between 1969 and 1975.
I can't say I've ever mistaken even a spotted gar for a musky, but a 29" pike torpedo that flashes by my lure has been known to throw me occasionally in clear water. Wishful thinking, I guess. I still have a mental picture of that fish for the .1 second that I saw it, if someone were to tell me there were still muskies in there for sure, I would say I saw one. But otherwise, nah, just seeing things again!
"Duke" said:
I can't say I've ever mistaken even a spotted gar for a musky
Your comment and all the gar in there got me thinking about a kid a couple years ago on Murray. He was convinced he was in the middle of the biggest school of muskie on the planet. He had at least 10 follow his Rapala in the last half hour and they were still rolling on the surface all around him. Though tough to keep a straight face, I couldn't help but let him know what he was seeing were indeed gar and not muskies.
In my youth we used to fish for gar quite often, and I can remember heading out one morning to a massive rolling school. There was already a boat fishing in the midst of them, which was strange until the guy started talking to us young kids that the gear we were using would not work on "all them walleyes". Even as kids, we were just too dumbfounded to even correct him!
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