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Location: Southern W.Va. | With all the "Super fish" that been sighted, my question is this, "How long had you been muskyfishing before you sighted the fish of a life time" ? 5 years-30 years?
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| In order, 4 years (WI), 7 years (WI), 25 years (Ontario), and 27 years (Ontario). Last year biggest sighted were two upper 50s close to 60 inches, one in Quebec and one in WI. This year nothing sighted but low 50 inchers (Ontario) | |
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Location: lansing, il | probablly a year or 2....when i first started musky fishing when i was 12-13 yrs old she hit!!! the superfish battle was on, i got it in the boat stepped on its head it was so huge i thought it was going to eat me!!! i didnt even want my lure back...luckily it popped out!! we flipped it over the side of the boat shook for a while then realized it was a girthy superfish of probablly 28-30 whole inches. | |
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| About 1/2 hour into my first day musky fishing. Looking back it was probably all of about 35, but at the time? MAN that thing was a monster!
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Location: Iowa | I had been seriously fishing muskies for only about 2 years when I saw the tank at Mille Lacs...since then (4 years) I have only seen two or three that have made my knees weak...and 2 were this year...
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| Its kind of funny that all these "Super Fish" people hook ALWAYS come off 
Do you refer to a Super Fish being 55-59" or 60"+?
Just to maybe get some things strait.
Edited by Reelwise 10/12/2006 12:16 PM
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| I have been fishing muskies about 13 years, and it took me up until about 3-4 years ago to see what I consider a super fish, which I believe was in the 55" range, I played netman on my partners 55lber, and that was a hog! But, the fish I saw sunning herself( no she didnt follow) I saw on 3 seperate occasions that day, I feel for sure was what I said, not to mention very girthy. I have seen some 50's, had a run in with 2 I believe, but, As stated, everyone thinks of a superfish in different terms.
A 45" to a guy who's best is a 38", may come off as a 50, but, Who really knows the difference between a 53-60 incher, as stated before, unless you've handled many like it. Very few guys Im guessing. Id say guys like rich clark, mark maghran, larry jones, to name a few, who consistently run into big fish, could honestly say what they saw was legit, but, c'mon if there are so many sightings of these huge fish all over, why is it only a couple a year get caught with how many muskie guys there are out there?
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I saw the biggest fish I'd ever seen behind Tony Grant's boat about the second year i was trying hard. It came up after a muskie treats but changed it's mind when it saw the boat. What a monster she was, I heard that Gregg caught her the next week and she went 53, i think. m | |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | I guess the most interesting perspective has come from my brother this year. We have been chasing these greenfishes for alot of years and over that time it seems the bar has been raised, a fifty inch class fish is no doubt a big fish but to me a superfish is the fish that makes that fish seem BIG but NOT a superfish. Steve in my mind fishes one of the greatest trophy waters in the world and he sees lots of big fish many in the upper forty to low fifty inch class but there have been times this season where a fish comes to boatside and it is one of those special fish a '' SUPERFISH'' if you will. I have seen one fish in my life that I would call a superfish she lives in LOTW, Sabaskong, Sand Bay, she was huge........ how big??? I would imagine she was as big as the fish that Jody caught last week, maybe bigger, don't know............... I have a buddy that caught a 54'' out of a small Wis. lake a few years ago, weighed 39 pounds, you should see the mount, BIG fish but not a superfish at least to me. I guess when you see one you will know..................... | |
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| I saw the release picture of the fish that Steve put Jody on and tried to imagine seeing that in the water on a follow. It's an unreal way to look at that fish. It honestly has shoulders and seems to keep on going and going out of his tail grip! I have not seen anything like that, I can say that for certain!
I think about a fish like that on a folllow and like Dave said, it really puts it in perspective! Knees shakes at the keyboard!
Selfishly I wish it happened a day earlier when I was in his boat! | |
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| I had been fishing for muskies for 13yrs before I got my 56.5"er last year. I seriously doubt I will ever outdo myself. But a mans gotta have his goals right?...... | |
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