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Posts: 75
| Thought this could be a fun topic. For me:
Caught--Dinorwic
Seen--Pipestone or the Manitou it's a tossup |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Personally Secret L. but probably Lake X will register more sightings. I normally hunt unicorns in a big river now. |
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Posts: 50
| Caught: Eagle 50.5"
Seen: Eagle guessing 55"-57" |
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Posts: 304
Location: Lino Lakes, MN | Vermilion
Caught 53.5"
witnessed 57" X26.5
Seen ??? No idea how big. just BIG |
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| Biggest caught- 55" on Lake Z
Biggest seen- Mille Lacs and no other lakes have even come close |
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Posts: 32930
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Caught: Wabigoon
Seen: Wabigoon |
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Posts: 75
| I figured "Lake X" would get the biggest number of responses, but still a fun topic IMHO |
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Posts: 102
| Caught: LOTW north end
Seen: My buddy saw one there that had him shaking. Had to sit down for awhile and take a break.
Edited by R/T 9/6/2019 10:34 AM
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Posts: 102
| Just remembered another one. 54" and 45 lber harvested on Eagle Lake, ON. Biggest I have seen I believe. Was camp record at the time at Ojibwa Paradise Resort. I have been out of muskie fishing for 15 years. Just getting back in. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Caught. 54.5 Lake X. 55.25" in boat.
Seen: saw one this year that was I believe longer than any fish I've seen and I've seen a few in the 57 range ... Lake of the Woods mega.
Edited by BNelson 9/6/2019 12:45 PM
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Posts: 390
| Biggest GB 54"
longest LSC a little over 54"
Biggest seen = GB bigger than I would have ever imagined, still dreaming about it
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Posts: 925
| Biggest Caught = 52" LOTW
Biggest Seen = no clue as I am a terrible judge. I always guess low. But I've seen some real dandies on LOTW that were definitely bigger that my 52". |
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Posts: 20253
Location: oswego, il | Biggest in my boat 51.5" LSC
Biggest seen potato island lake vermilion I would guess 54. |
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Posts: 8834
| All have been on Eagle Lake.
Biggest caught: 49.5" off of McCalls Island
Biggest in boat: 53.5" West Arm fish
Biggest seen: #1 was wider than my boots. No idea how long it was, but it's head was comparable to the size of a shovel. #2 I'd estimate at 54". Pretty confident on that since I had it up 13 different times. Every day, same rock, there it is again... We pound that stupid rock to this day even though I haven't seen a fish there in nearly 10 years. We call the rock "'Yagotta". "Wanna fish Yagotta?" "Yagotta!"
Edited by esoxaddict 9/6/2019 2:13 PM
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Posts: 35
| Biggest caught, 57 out east
Biggest seen, that ones grandmother.
Edited by acquaman 9/9/2019 12:55 AM
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Posts: 35
| Wabigoon eh Steve?
Interesting |
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Posts: 1039
Location: North St. Paul, MN | Caught - Lac Seul
Seen - Lac Seul |
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Posts: 35
| R/T - 9/6/2019 10:30 AM
Caught: LOTW north end
Seen: My buddy saw one there that had him shaking. Had to sit down for awhile and take a break.
My boat partner dropped one boat side a few years ago that made us both have to sit down for a couple smokes.
Edited by acquaman 9/9/2019 12:54 AM
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Posts: 403
Location: WI | St Lawrence River for both. |
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Posts: 540
Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Rowan Lake
Had two on lost both of them 1 casting 1 trolling |
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| 54 in boat. dumped a heartbreaker 55++ boat side 4pm yesterday trying to get the net. saw several 55-60 at spawn in a few feet of water on Mille Lacs 8 or so years ago. |
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Posts: 676
Location: Duluth | Vermilion for both, caught 47.5 (still searching for 50!)
Was out on Saturday had one up at RedHouse that would've gotten me to 50 and then some. Boat partner and I looked at each other, just kind of shaking our heads not saying anything for a minute |
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Posts: 90
| Haven't been to too many lakes, biggest seen was 52" in Lake Independece, thick throughout. |
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Posts: 2378
Location: Chisholm, MN | I'm pretty much wrong every time I try to estimate a fishes size in the water or even in the net. There's no way I'd be able to tell you how big the biggest one I've seen is.
Biggest I've caught was from Alexander.
Biggest seen...Mille Lacs stands out but I've seen some giant's on Bemidji, Plant, Leech, and Vermilion. A couple of those were probably in the 56-57 inch range.
I have had one over 56 inches in my boat, and my boat partner and I estimated it at 52-53 in the net. We were pleasantly surprised when it hit the board. It was not a skinny 56 either. True mastodon. |
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Posts: 173
Location: Alexandria, MN | Caught: Lac Seul
Seen: Whitefish Bay, LOTW (though have seen fish on Seul and Cass that were close)
Edited by phselect 9/9/2019 9:36 AM
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Posts: 401
| Caught - multiple 49 in Vermilion
Seen - 55+ in Vermilion |
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Posts: 104
| 51" on LOTW
Upper 50s on Vermilion. That fish was insane. |
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| Caught- 54.5 GB
Seen- 56-58 GB
Edited by muskyhunter07 9/9/2019 3:30 PM
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Posts: 667
Location: Roscoe IL | Caught: 51 LOTW
Seen: Wingra 51.5 Ate some shrooms that day, so my est might be tainted a bit  fear and loathing fishing back in the day.
Edited by ToothyCritter 9/9/2019 4:27 PM
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Posts: 612
| Not to pee on anyone's parade. When viewing a fish underwater light's (distorted, refraction, etc) so all one can state is that it was a whopper and make a very rough est..
My biggest fish was lost ~ 18" under the boat could have been 47" to 54", really can't do any better IMO, as a fisherman - engineer. |
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