The DWR has found a successful method of stocking tiger muskies in the state, including
popular spots in the Uinta Mountains. For many years, the Utah Division of Wildlife
Resources hatcheries were frustrating trying to produce and raise tiger muskies as they
attempted to collect eggs from female northern pike. Tiger muskies are a non-native
predator fish that are a cross between a northern pike and a muskellunge and have been
stocked in Utah since 1988. Their faltering results changed to success in 2021, however,
when biologists decided to use the eggs from female muskellunge and cross them with
the milt from a male northern pike. That switch has kept Utah nicely stocked with the
popular fish and just recently tiger muskies were stocked in the Uinta Mountains in
Brown Duck Lake, Angel Lake, Dry Fork Twin and Lakeshore Lake.
