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| After looking at the thread of skinny fish, let's go the other direction.
Not just heavy fish, let's see fish that are so fat they shouldn't be able to swim!
I'll start with this little guy we caught while spring netting with the DNR:
It is 31.5" long and weighed 11.7 lbs.
Jeff
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| As I said in the original post - I was in a DNR boat, they pull the nets in and dump them on the floor. They pick them up one at a time and put them in a holding tank and then remove them one at a time to weigh, measure, and toss them back.
From where I was standing this was the only way to get a photo, I never handled any of the fish.
I was a visitor and lucky to get this photo as it slid by my feet.
I just thought you guys would get a kick out of how it is proportioned, that's all.
If this fish gets to 50", what will it weigh?
Jeff
PS I quit posting on boards a couple years ago because people are to quick to judge or don't read the whole post, I guess it is time for another vacation.
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We are always SO fast to find something wrong with others posts and pictures. I have been in a DNR boat before when they are netting or in my case shocking muskies for weights and measurements. No disrespect meant toward the DNR, but they handle muskies like cord wood. These are JUST fish to them and they are JUST doing their job.
I know Jeff (the poster). He is a tremendous fisherman, and always has the fish's best health in mind.
There was some talk on this board about why so many "lookers" and not posters. Look no further than the way Jeff was thrown under the bus for just trying to share an odd muskie photo with all of us. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That fish is a tank! If it keeps that body proportion, it'll be a big big fish someday. Sorry about the responses to the picture, folks need to read before they react. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | agreed! that fish is a tanker...this fish was caught by Mike M (Lardonastick) in our matchfishing win in Nov...it's only 35.5 but I think it just ate a 5 lb redhorse...
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Location: Lincolnshire, IL | I always thought this 37" or 38" fish was pretty fat....
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| disposable camera sucks but here's a 48.5 x 26
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Location: Wausau, Wisconsin | I'll load a little chunky butt tonight if I can find it. It's almost funny. Butterballs.
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| This one was eating cisco's on mille lacs
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Location: Contrarian Island | another cisco eating chunker....
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Location: Angola, IN | Nice fish Brad.....Maaannnnnnnn that baby is PHAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT.
Here is a real thick fish....especially for July!!!
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Location: Minneapolis | They come in all sizes on the Ottawa River (see my skinny dock fish in the other thread). This one was 41" x 18".
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Location: Belgium | I once caught a pike that looked exactly the same. 97cm and fat as can be. It seemed to miss a part of its tail (not the fin but the tail of the body). If I'm not mistaken, it's in my picture gallery |
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| Here's a chunky 45 from Mille Lacs
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Location: pittsburgh, pa | Here is a fat 46" from ohio
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Location: oswego, il | Here is a chunky 33 from my dad and a very chunky 44" pike I caught a few years ago.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | a 34 and a 39 ... both from the same perch / sucker forage lake ... definitely strong for their size.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | oops
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Location: Suspended | I just got my best at 46 inches long on 2/4/06:
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Here's a chunky gal, especially for a July fish. I would love to run into her in November.
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Location: Iowa | Hmmm...this seems like a good place for this...you guys remember this one caught by Bill Thomas out of Mille Lacs 2 years ago...51 x 29 if I remember correctly...these guys shared camp with us...what a F@#king Fattie...
Big Perc
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Location: Roscoe IL | Here are a few from the Wisconsin River. 50"er & 47"er
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Wow, some real magnums posted here.
I got this 53 x 26 1/2 fron Eastern Canada.
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Two days later I got this 57 x 27.
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Location: The desert | Man you guys got some frickin sows up in here! |
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| I'll add mine to the list 50.5" not sure on the girth
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| Okay, I'll throw my two cents in here (not that I ever mind showin pics of my fishes), she's not long, only 41", but she sure was a wide muthah. The girl bulldawged like a catfish on me, and I couldn't get her off the bottom of the lake as she kept takin drag. Then when we finally saw her I thought that the cradle we had wouldn't fit around her! She was wider sideways than she was up and down almost and it looked like she had eaten a turtle. She had nice shoulders on her too. Anyway, didn't get a girth on her because she started floppin on me and she was super hard to hold, (Even though the pic don't show it, I'm strainin pretty hard to hold her up....I know...woosy boy, but ah well.) so I dropped her safely over the side of the boat so she didn't hurt herself. Now I can only wonder how wide around....twenty maybe? She seemed at least as wide if not moreso than a twenty inch 45.5 inch fish I caught, but fish always seem bigger in my head. Ah well, I'll never know and I guess it really don't matter. All I know is I hope I get another shot at her in five years especially if she stays on the same high protein diet.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | that fish is oddly fat ... looks like a stump! ... imagine if she keeps proportions through her life? |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | can someone post a pick of a fish if i email it to them? |
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| LOL, that fish on the bottom of the boat is a 31 inch long fully mature female full of spawn! It's probably 12 years old and pretty much done growing.
Where fish grow big, females don't hit the nets until they reach 40"plus. |
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| Bob,
You're right, it is female. But I GUARANTEE you it's not 12 y.o. and done growing (at least, I'd be very surprised if it didn't grow anymore). Some regions have extremely fast growing seasons, especially when compared to MN or WI.
Fish4musky1,
Send it over to me and I'll put it up for ya.
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| Here's a pic Fish4musky1 sent me. Found in a Gander Mnt. store (the photo not the fish).
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | how much does everyone think that thign weighs? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i gotta say (without any photoanalysis experience) that that is the biggest fish i've ever seen a picture of ... and i've seen all of the "argument" pictures. wholy crap, unless that guy is 4' tall ... wow!! anybody got the story that goes along with that fish? |
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