| Here's an Idea-
At the end of each year, once the snow flies and muskie season is over everywhere, once the annual cookie has crumbled, and all the reports are in, from all points of the compass, biggest fish of the year gets something like the Stanley Cup.
Big fat huge glamorous Muskellunge trophy silver cup with a great big Muskie atop like the hood ornament on a '32 Cadillac, only bigger.
Whoever gets the big one each year gets the trophy for a year, their name added on an engraved plate on the trophy just like Lord Stanley's Cup and all the fabled players are recorded, year after year as they earn their right to claim the biggest of the big and have their name recorded there, just one each season, year after year.
Joe Schmoe from somewhere gets the biggest muskie in the boat that year, he gets the trophy to take home until next year (end of December) when the next year's biggest shows up.
All the length X girth equals fightin' words would of course work themselves out by comparison, one fish would emerge each year.
Think about it, doesn't muskie fishing deserve this (if the money and politics are kept out), after half a century of forgetting all those 40 lb, 50 lb, 60 lb fish that come to net each year somewhere, caught by average folks that happen to be the biggest of that year (or that decade) and they dissapear in the mists of time without recognition.
We need a Muskie Cup !!! |
