First I want to say it has been a GREAT 2007 on this lake! I've caught 11 Tiger Muskie since July including a 39 and 41 inch. Also a fish that was only about 11 inches that leads me to believe the slim possibility of tigers reproducing naturally exists at Silver. What an exiting year, so many stories, but today one of the strangest things I have ever seen on the water happened. My buddy and I anchored near the "church" very windy and cold today so wanted to stay stationary as possible. About 20-30 yards away I saw something break the water and assumed it was a Muskrat. A few minutes later this "thing" was swimming about 15 yards in front of and across the boat. My friend has better vision and spotted that it was a tiger muskie. Head completely out of the water, mouth wide open and eyes seemed to be bulging. It must have swam about 20 ft. like this, then sunk under. We couldn't believe it! A few minutes later it did this again and my buddy trolled to it, I wanted to net it and see if something was wrong with it and we could help it and release it. Maybe it was chocking on something it shouldn't swallow or dying or sick some way. But when we got a foot from it right next to the boat it swam under. What was going on with the muskie??? Looked BIG!, 40 inches if not really close to it. Has anybody ever seen or heard of anything like this before? Is this something natural? Like I said my only guess could be that it was chocking. But, besides this NO hits, NO follows. Anybody know good tactics to catch them when the weather turns like this?