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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I work in the fishing industry and can assure you a world record muskie is worth some serious coin, not just 'free stuff'. Just because you have never experienced outdoors industry sponsorships, promotions, and endorsements doesn't mean they are not there, I am literally surrounded by logos from sponsors of Professional Anglers fishing the PWT Championship in North Dakota this weekend. For many of them, fishing is their only job, associated with the promotional efferts they are under contract to perform. Musky Hunter wouldn't be my choice for the exclusive story, either, I don't think they could afford exclusivity. Disagree all you like, a new World Record handled right could be a full time job for quite awhile, as I said especially if a Pro or Guide catches her. Addict is WAY short on the value.
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Location: Oregon | I would agree with Steve, a world record musky would be a million dollar fish. Besides the money though, lets be realistic about keeping "one fish". Musky die everyday from natural causes, poaching, predation, poor releases (deep hooks), and at the hands of less conservation minded anglers. A "world record" musky would have lived to spawn and share it's genetic code many times over by the time it reached "record proportions". To keep this one fish would have no effect whatsoever on musky populations and would bring a whole bunch of excitement and happiness to thousands of musky enthusiasts, seems like a good thing to me.
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| Don't you think it would depend mostly on who catches it?
Let's be realistic for a minute -- if it was me that caught it, everybody in the fishing world would go "WHO?"
No matter what I did after that, I'd still be some no-name weekend warrior from Chicago who stumbled on a giant fish.
I'd be lucky to get a hat out of the deal.
If I was a well known guide, tournament pro, etc.? That would be a whole different story. I could build a business on that one fish, provided that I was already established and pretty well known BEFORE I caught the fish. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Addict,
No, if it was done right, I would not agree with you. |
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| Well Steve, I gotta trust that you know more than I do. If I catch a record fish, I'll be needing a marketing/PR guy. You for hire?  |
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| I have to agree with you Esox, there was a guy that caught a monster on Mille Lacs a few years ago just fishing with a buddy, they weighed it in the boat took a few pics and let her go, if i remember right it was up around 56-57 lbs, and nothing was said about it, the picture just got past around and everybody said OMG what a fish and then the story died, i to think it would take a known someone to make any money out of it |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | CA,
That wasn't a World Record. |
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Location: Minnesota | True |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Seems to me that all the controversy that surrounds the current record would only result in more fame and coverage for the fisherman that breaks it. If a nobody like me caught it, I think the equipment makers would love it. What better way to advertise than to say, "Our stuff is so great, even an idiot like MuskyHopeful can catch a world record."
Steve, if I were to do it, I would like to be on the front page of M1st. That would be a freebie.
Kevin
Cold Plan.
Edited by MuskyHopeful 10/17/2006 6:55 PM
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| OK, OK, enough talk. Now who's gonna get out there and catch that mother? |
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If it was a world record ......... HMMMMMMMM
There would be a WHACK heard around the world..
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