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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Okay that last thread got me wanting to respond, but I'm not a guide so....
Okay, You're NOT a guide (ok maybe you are...doesn't matter) and people look at your pictures or mounts and ask what questions or make what comments....
#1 On my top ten is......and This one NEVER fails...."Whoa....how big is that mount?"....you tell them....wait, wait, wait, wait for it...here it comes.....heeeerrreee it is....."Yeah, my brother (uncle, cousin, co-worker, boss, pastor, priest, milk-man, babysitter, nanny, nurse-maid....fill in the blank) caught a 65 incher outa' __________ Lake (insert name of local action lake).
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Location: oswego, il | We looked at the green card data for illinois at the IMA meeting last saturday which dates back to 1988. These are cards people fill out and send to the dnr which can now be done online for their muskie catches. The biggest fish came from shabbona and measured 60" so don't laugh these fish do exist!!!!!;-)
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| We've got a guy in our club who claims to know of muskies that were over 100 pounds. And "at least 6 feet long, probably longer..." And there's always the story about he muskie with the head sticking out from one side of the boat and the tail sticking out from the other side that you hear every year or so. That's a good one, too.
Now that I think about it, I've heard "it was at least 6 feet long!!!" from more than a few anglers over the years. Never heard it from a muskie angler until just this year, though. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | there's an 80 and 100 incher that live next to a guys dock at a local lake! Sad part is that this comment came from a walleye "guide" |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | A friend of mine is one of the most knowledgeable all around anglers I know. He's a professional bass angler and is as level headed and truthful as they come, and he has caught muskies. But he swears to me he's seen more than one 72" muskie in LSC. He says, "I'm 6' and this fish was easily as long as I am tall...probably longer." He is dead serious. I tell him I saw a 36" smallie just to poke fun back at him. |
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| And there's always the story about he muskie with the head sticking out from one side of the boat and the tail sticking out from the other side that you hear every year or so. That's a good one, too.
I used to laugh at that one too. The problem is a couple years ago I had a somewhat similar event on Eagle lake, LOL. It was late October. Just north of Viking Reef. It was in front of the entrance to Garnet bay. The fish came in on a pounder from really deep water, right under the bow of the boat. Turned on bait once, then slowly disappeared. I'm not going to say how big this fish was, or how big I think it was. I don't want to get torched here. LOL.
I've been fortunate to catch some big fish on Eagle over the years, with one just shy of 54" (late fall fat fish), and saw some stupid big fish also. Nothing came close to this fish though. I really do believe it was one of those deep water fish that most anglers never come close to coming in contact with (including me). The type of fish that hangs in deep water most of its life. Oh well, who really knows.
We were just killing a little time on this spot anyway. It was a lucky surprise type encounter to see a "freak" of that caliber. 
Chas
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| I've been told about a muskie that was longer than an 8ft wide boat. Saw the head and the tail out the sides at the same time. |
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| The white whale from Eagle Lake, Ontario! |
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| Heard this one just today after showing a old man the pic of my spotted 45 incher last week " Yeah the Males have spots and the females don't "" LOL |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | Once had a fishing writer catch a 41" 17# muskie back in the day when you kept fish. He caught the fish on Fathers Day. Well a few years later he wrote an article about this great Fathers Day catch from years before. The fish was now remembered as 51" and 37#. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | AndyM - 1/14/2013 4:41 PM
The white whale from Eagle Lake, Ontario!
Newman! |
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Location: Duluth, MN | fishhawk50 - 1/14/2013 5:33 PM
AndyM - 1/14/2013 4:41 PM
The white whale from Eagle Lake, Ontario!
Newman!
Lol! Priceless! |
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| I had a guy this year look at my net in the boat and tell me, "you need to go fish for Muskie over in that bay". Pointing south. I ask him why and he says, "#*^@ muskies keep biting my expensive bass jigs and breaking me off. Keep everyone of em you catch" |
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Location: West Chester, OH | esoxfly - 1/14/2013 4:09 PM
I tell him I saw a 36" smallie just to poke fun back at him.
"and it was crossways in the mouth of a 72" muskie." |
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Location: The desert | A 90 inch tiger musky attacked a woman wading in Pineview Reservoir. Guy had to call an ambulance cause she was bleeding out.
Same guy caught one easily 96 inches long.
Same guy told me I netted a 75 incher a week back during my electro fishing survey. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | If I had a dollar for every time I had someone tell me about the world record muskie netted by the dnr in this or that lake
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Location: Minneapolis | "80 lb line takes all the sport out of fishing for muskies" |
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| I had a guy at work who does not fish tell me that he knows a guy whose father ownes a resort on a small lake up in northern Wisc. He told me we should go because they catch 55 inch muskies all the time. We laughed at him and looked up the resort website and at least there are muskies in the lake but mainly fish in the mid thirties to mid forties. |
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| I had a guy tell me that he and his father caught muskies on 22 consecutive casts back in the day. "But no big ones." The story actually started out with, "You're not going to believe this, but..." Instant Classic. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | A guy at work tried to tell me that he used to catch 37" largemouth on every other cast on a private lake in Wisconsin. When I laughed in his face, he changed his story to 27" bass but it was still every other cast! He's since been "let go"  |
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| Best irritating question: "Where'd you catch'em?"
Best irritating answer: "In the mouth!"
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| "Have to fish the south shore of Vermillion in the morning as that is where they go to poop" |
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Location: Money, PA | I guess the days of guys sayin' "That fish was as long as a railroad tie!" are over! Geeze!! |
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Location: Tennessee | Apparently from one of my sources at work my local southern reservoir has Muskie in the 7-9ft range |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | let's go back to that place we saw that one fish ...
why are we fishing here ... we haven't seen anything her yet. CRAP there's one!
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | First Guy: "Why did you bring me to this spot, I hate this spot"
Second Guy: "WHAT??? I love this spot!"
First Guy: "I have never seen anything here, not even a follow"
Second Guy: "This is one of my top producing spots!"
Frist Guy: "Wait.... FISH ON"!!!
Second Guy: "You SOB"!!!!!!!!!!
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| I was vending a show this past weekend and have heard some crazy stories, like all the shows I vend.
The best one from this past weekend was a very nice gentleman told me an old friend back in the day had a personal slot limit for musky, he wouldnt keep one unless it was over 50 inchs and threw all the fish back that were over 70inches.
Then he told me about the world record white tail the same friend shot back in the day, it was over 400 inches B&C... You just smile and listen. Again he was a very plesent guy to talk to. |
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"100 pound test? What do you need that for?" I replied, "For Muskies."
"You don't need a hundred pound test. I caught a Muskie on eight pound test."
Upon returning from Lake of The Woods in early June on a walleye trip, we decided to stop for lunch in Brainerd.
"How did you guys do?"
My dad's friend: "Oh, we just got back from Canada. Caught a bunch of really nice walleyes.
"Canada? Why did you go to Canada for walleyes? We've got walleyes in Minnesota."
My dad then proceeds to remark in the most sarcastic of tones, "No sh--? Really? There are walleyes in Minnesota?"
Needless to say, the guy shook his head and drove off while we laughed.
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| Try working at a sport shop in a tourist destination like Minocqua. EVERY tourist sees multiple 50+ inchers on their 6 day vacation and most have had one on and lost it. I guess I should go where they go. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Jim Peck's? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Flambeauski - 1/16/2013 8:36 AM
Jim Peck's?
that one is 65" with a 28" girth ... |
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| i once had a guy tell me he muskie fished for 19 years without a follow with some of the best guides... then went to canada and finally had a follow off the dock.
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Location: Smith Creek | jonnysled - 1/16/2013 8:39 AM
Flambeauski - 1/16/2013 8:36 AM
Jim Peck's?
that one is 65" with a 28" girth ...
This could be whole new thread, weird things people say at the muskie pond at Jim Peck's.
"Leave your sister alone or I'm throwing you in the pond with the muskies!"
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| Flambeauski - 1/16/2013 8:36 AM
Jim Peck's?
Good one! No usually it's a "private" lake. |
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| Peter Stoltman - 1/16/2013 8:05 AM
Try working at a sport shop in a tourist destination like Minocqua. EVERY tourist sees multiple 50+ inchers on their 6 day vacation and most have had one on and lost it. I guess I should go where they go.
Yeah... I hear about a LOT of 50"+ fish up that way. Yet most of my friends who live there and fish there all of the time have never caught one. Funny how the biggest fish always know how to avoid the guide boats and seasoned anglers, isn't it? Maybe muskies are smarter than we give them credit for... Or they've all gone to greener pastures over on the Chip..  |
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| esoxaddict - 1/16/2013 4:48 PM
Peter Stoltman - 1/16/2013 8:05 AM
Try working at a sport shop in a tourist destination like Minocqua. EVERY tourist sees multiple 50+ inchers on their 6 day vacation and most have had one on and lost it. I guess I should go where they go.
Yeah... I hear about a LOT of 50"+ fish up that way. Yet most of my friends who live there and fish there all of the time have never caught one. Funny how the biggest fish always know how to avoid the guide boats and seasoned anglers, isn't it? Maybe muskies are smarter than we give them credit for... Or they've all gone to greener pastures over on the Chip.. ;- )
I had a resort owner at the Chicago show tell me that he was netting fish for research at the lake his resort is on. He netted a fish so big it was longer than the boat was wide - 80" boat......or so the story goes at least. Fish thrashed out of the boat before it could be measured and weighed.
I want to believe.
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| People can't help themselves. A few years back I had a neighbor ask if I'd seen the 50 incher hanging around by another neighbors dock. This was pre-season and there were a lot of fish cruising the shallows doing the spawning thing. A couple days later we were both on the lakefront when the guy yells to me "There she is!!!" . He pointed out a fish that may have gone 42 inches tops and he insisted that it was a 50 incher. No point arguing, just smiled and said "yep, nice fish". |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The horse tank in the boat photo. Big darned fish. |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Steve,
yessir it was! |
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| esoxaddict, I've grown up in Oneida County, have been musky fishing for what now...24 years I'll call it? We have plenty of 50's, but for some reason you're right...they are #*^@ smart! |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Amen Pete. "The hotbed" for fish stories... Though I know 2 guys that swear they have video of a 60" tiger they lost and a pic of an upper 50" musky from northern WI they caught 20 years ago... I have been waiting 3 years to see the pics/video... might be in for a long wait. |
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| FAT-SKI - 1/18/2013 7:55 AM
Contender - 1/17/2013 4:13 PM
esoxfly - 1/14/2013 5:09 PM
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Pshhh, 36" smallie is nothin, I'm waiting on my first 50" walleye ;-)
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| A couple years ago I was launching my boat and there was 4 young adults fishing with bobbers from the ramp. They ask me what I was fishing for and I replied musky. The one young guy says, the fishing was good until they started putting musky in here about 4 years ago. Musky have been in the that river for over 35 years. I had to laugh. |
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| I had a guy tell me that he saw one of the 6 footers that were stocked by helicopters in the river I fish! That was a change from the classics like "as big as a RR tie" or " It was at least 5 feet long " I can't help myself to play along with them though!
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| I just looked at the green cards And the biggest fish from Shabbona is 50 inches. http://www.ifishillinois.org/science/MUE_Creel_Project_Report_87-10... |
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| I really can't say if it is one particular bait shop that was responsible, or if it was all of them....but there was a particularly virulent story spread over a very long time (years) that a particlular resident on Watersmeet Lake, one with a really distinctly marked boathouse door, was hand feeding two 50's every night at dusk off his pier. The word was that if the guy was out there, you should stay away until he was done feeding the muskies. Now, you would think that nobody would believe a story like this, wouldn't you? Well, you would be wrong! People still camp on that spot. |
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| muskie24/7 - 1/20/2013 9:25 AM
I had a guy tell me that he saw one of the 6 footers that were stocked by helicopters in the river I fish! That was a change from the classics like "as big as a RR tie" or " It was at least 5 feet long " I can't help myself to play along with them though! :)
Holy crap, nice walleye! |
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| toddb - 1/16/2013 9:25 PM
trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe...
Terry from Merkel's seems like a great guy. I plan on going to his camp one day. Not sure what the exact size of that fish is, but it looks bigger than anything I've ever seen in print or person. Wasn't Lebeau the one doing the research/netting in that picture? Larry Ramsell talks about that fish in his books. I'm sure Steve W. has seen some knee bucklers in his days on the Goon. The lake to the west of the Goon gets all the headlines, but people are missing the boat by not fishing that old murky water.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | You guys talking about this fish? Really hard to tell from the perspective just how big it is...
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | (Dr.) Bernard Lebeau told me that the fish in the photo was bigger than the O'brien fish (he saw both). Of course now we know that O'brien's fish was only 54 inches long, so obviously this one was bigger....how big we'll never know as she escaped before she could be weighed and measured and have a transmitter placed in her! |
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| Larry Ramsell - 1/23/2013 10:18 PM
(Dr.) Bernard Lebeau told me that the fish in the photo was bigger than the O'brien fish (he saw both). Of course now we know that O'brien's fish was only 54 inches long, so obviously this one was bigger....how big we'll never know as she escaped before she could be weighed and measured and have a transmitter placed in her!
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Location: Minnesota Metro | Everyone knows "the lake to the west" is the only place around that you can catch monsters like that...Lord Herbeck told me so.
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toddb - 1/16/2013 9:25 PM
trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe...
Terry from Merkel's seems like a great guy. I plan on going to his camp one day. Not sure what the exact size of that fish is, but it looks bigger than anything I've ever seen in print or person. Wasn't Lebeau the one doing the research/netting in that picture? Larry Ramsell talks about that fish in his books. I'm sure Steve W. has seen some knee bucklers in his days on the Goon. The lake to the west of the Goon gets all the headlines, but people are missing the boat by not fishing that old murky water.
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | IAJustin:
The rope with the bouy on the left is five feet from the center rope that is over the tail meat of the fish. My estimate is that the fish is in the high 50 inch range! |
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| Larry, in your book, you have logged a dead fish that was verified floating on Wabigoon. I think it was around 62-64". Did you ever get to see photos of the fish? |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Elkman99:
No photo's, but the jaw was in a shop in town for awhile and I saw it there and have a photo of it which is in the book with the story. |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Trout,
good one- Lord Herbeck, Mikie and Scotty J all have stories about giant fish on Eagle and I believe them too. Fished Wabigoon several years with success but Eagle definitely showed me bigger fish and better numbers.
No doubt the 'goon has some giants lurking also, just never saw one with my eyes. Terry is a good dude and can tell a story with the best of them... Troutwater - 1/24/2013 3:37 AM
Everyone knows "the lake to the west" is the only place around that you can catch monsters like that...Lord Herbeck told me so.
Elkman99 - 1/23/2013 7:23 AM
toddb - 1/16/2013 9:25 PM
trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe...
Terry from Merkel's seems like a great guy. I plan on going to his camp one day. Not sure what the exact size of that fish is, but it looks bigger than anything I've ever seen in print or person. Wasn't Lebeau the one doing the research/netting in that picture? Larry Ramsell talks about that fish in his books. I'm sure Steve W. has seen some knee bucklers in his days on the Goon. The lake to the west of the Goon gets all the headlines, but people are missing the boat by not fishing that old murky water.
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