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Location: Madtown, WI | OK, I know this is probably one of those tall tales but my buddy said there is a ~100 lb muskie mount (or replica) hanging in a grocery store in Eagle River. He said it was caught in the DNR nets. I told him it was just put there for the tourists sake....whats the skinny on it so I can tell him for sure....
Cory
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | First of all the "mount" is made of wood, and secondly, just how many stories of 80-120 pound muskies can one town hold?
Fake??? I would bet my life. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I love the mount! Hanging on the back wall (way up there) in Trigs!
Truth is, I caught it. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | ....and I was guiding Slamr when he boated it!!!! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Sitting on your butt behind the console peeling potatoes isnt guiding. Sorry pal. |
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Location: Madtown, WI | OK guys...I KNOW its fake...just thought maybe there was a story that went with it....
The guy here at work was like, "Oh no its real!! They had a write up below it and everything!!!" Why do they do that to people!?
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| WHY? are you more likely to go in Trig's the next time you're up there?
so is everyone who hears about it.
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Next thing we'll hear...... Cady, Fenner, Marine 1, Midge and Jonesi will be telling the tale that it was caught on a Weagle.
Edited by Gander Mt Guide 10/7/2004 3:45 PM
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Location: Hugo, MN | OK Gander who let the cat out of the bag?????? I bet it was Ballcap!! We were all sworn to secrecy! It was caught on a custom color Weagle.
Edited by marine_1 10/7/2004 4:11 PM
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| But was it released successfully to fight another day???????????????????????
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Yes, and only one limb of the tree used to make that muskie was killed. Unfortunately, that limb was over 50". |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | And no, it wasn't caught on a Weagle. It was caught on a KW Raptor. |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | I did see a REPLICA mount of what a 100 pounder would look like at the Rosemont Show a few years ago, I forgot who the display was for but the guy in the booth said they had it made to draw attention and they made it very clear that it was not a real fish, if I remember correctly it was 72X33 this thing was HUGE. I think you may need two Big Kahuna nets to boat a beast that size
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| Caught in the Chip by Mr. Spray?  |
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Location: New Baden IL | Somebody take a picture and post it, sounds neat to see! |
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Location: oswego, il | I heard that fish hanging there was not caught but found floating on the eagle chain after a storm.
Stve, I really think we need to propose a tree branch size limit. This is just getting out of hand! |
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Big muskie hanging in Eagle River supermarket?