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| There are believers out there. Are you one of them? Please help Pete learn that some people do actually believe Louie's fish was as large as the record shows. I'm expecting lots of NO answers in this poll but keep in mind those monitoring this site are less than minute in comparison to those that have an opinion on this subject. Please expect the results of this poll to be very unscientific. So, what do *you* think?
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| you KNOOOOWWW
sometimes, after looking at that fish, i can almost see how people would think it was that big.
then i realize, that it really don't matter, cuz Cady seems to think he seen one over 70 inches one time.......
after careful consideration of this, i think that fish Spray caught, at first glance COULD LOOK huge to someone...at first glance....but after seeing pics of MONSTER fish caught recently, and knowing what a big fish's head usually looks like...this fish wasn't stuffed with ice.....it was bloated with a waterhose, then frozen....somethings wrong with it, that's for sure..no, it wasn't that bid. not even near that big. big fish look different than this one, at least the ones' ive seen pics of...i could be wrong though, but most of them that i have seen, have HUGE heads. not saying that they all DO, but this one certainly had what appears to be an average head and an overbloated belly.
i wanna fish with Cady. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I'm gonna say no, BUT.................................
Ok, he led a sorted life, his past is questionable, yada, yada, yada,....However,
he did have witnesses, etc. was this the greatest scam in the history of our sport? maybe. Was this a farce? maybe. I aint saying that the current record is not indisputable. However, if the fine folks that have spent so much time, energy and $ had re-directed all that into fishing, one of those folks would have SHATTERED the current record. In my opinion (and you are welcome to share it, or not, your choice), there are as many as 100 fish swiming in the northern range that could beat the current record (may be more, may be less, but they are out there).They can be found in the Chip, Green Bay/Fox river, LOTW, Lac Suel, WI river, Leech, Vermillion, etc. Just go fish. |
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| i think there are more of them than we know about.
old muskies never die, they just swim in one big figure eight after a certain age. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Steve, when you find out what "minute" means, please let me know..? |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Someone PLEASE catch a 75lber, put this all to rest! |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | Spray caught several very big fish. Spray kicks my butt. But then...so does just about everyone who fishes for muskies. 
69# ? Boy....I just doubt it.
Sometimes I wonder if our preoccupation with this particular record has a lot to do with our apparent inability to break it. I mean, look how many more of us are fishing musky now. Sworrall, just go out and break it for us and that'll fix solve the mystery. 
Lord knows I'll never do it! |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | Who cares sorry.....Just catch one bigger and call it a day......Was Tom Brady throwing a pass against the Radiers a couple of years ago "Tuck Rule" or should the Radiers have gotten a fumble WHO CARES its over with......They changed the rule and now its sticks, someone will catch a bigger fish one day, and unless YOU WHERE there to see the fish in person you can not say it was smaller or larger.
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Location: MPLS, MN | I think you need a 3rd choice:
Who Cares/ You'll never know |
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| How come only 2 choices? What about HELL no? |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | How about choice #3 being
Don't care...sick and tired of all this nonsense. |
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| Option #3 for me too. Enough already. |
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Location: Wausau, Wisconsin | Are the five yes answers members of the hall? I think there should be a control group. J.K. It's time we take more of an enjoyable circus towards this subject. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | Nope
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| I think the guy meant "minute" as in small. He probably meant that the people on this site represent only a very small portion of the muskie fishermen out there. Makes sense to me.
I think it's plainly obvious that the Spray fish wasn't 69 11, and I've lost a lot of respect for the FWFHOF for working with John Detloff on this issue (because of his obvious personal interest between writing and his resort) and for upholding the record in any case.
John
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | All I know is that the Giants could have drafted a quarterback from Miami of Ohio named Roethlisberger, but instead traded for a $100 million dollar clay pigeon chucker. |
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| If I had to bet everything I owned either below 55" or above 55" I would bet below. Above 45lbs or below 45lbs, again, below (without something extra added).
The sooner the NFWFHoF comes clean on this the better, John Detloff knew all along, or certainly knows it's a fake ... or he is not all there. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Its a record, no matter what record is "the one", folks are going to argue. Let's break it and then there won't be all this bickering. |
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| Too many questions about this fish and not enough satisfactory answers for me to say it was legit. If it could be verified without smoke and mirrors then I'd change my vote, but until that happens I can't so I won't. |
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way more reasons than I can type (I hate keyboards) |
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Location: Kaukauna, Wisconsin | I can't think of why they let it stand. It blows my mind to think that they let it stand. I am not a photoanalyst or anything, but I can tell that it is not that big. There are not really any words that can expalin how I am feeling about this. |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | Okay did OJ do it?
CLASSIC |
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| I'm with Bytor and Parker on this one. Who cares? This is getting SOOOOOO old. |
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| I just hope that the new world record is caught by someone not even fishing for muskies. That way all that think that it is truely rocket science will see that its more luck than it is skill!!!! I am an avid muskie fisherman and have been for 20 years. It is todays "new to the sport anglers" with all of the answers that seem to be the biggest critics. Was it real or not. I do not care!!! It will not change when I go or where I go! We need to be realistic and enjoy every opportunity we get to fight the greatest fish that swims our lakes and rivers. Is there a record swimming out there??? I doubt it! If you are fishing for muskie with intentions of becoming the "New World Record Holder".......I suggest you pick a species that has not been altered by those trying to be God!
My two cents worth.....like it or leave it! |
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| I retract after a nice latter from figure 8 I think he came across different in an email.bill
Edited by 0723 1/25/2006 8:24 PM
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Location: Wausau, Wisconsin | After actually looking at the two million pages of evidence the WRMA created, all of the work, all of the time, all of the dedication with not a dollar to benefit. THAT is emotion and it sickens me that after all of that work that a small group the obvious benefit to the Spray fish was allowed to make the descision. If the court was involved Sprays fish would be out and everyone knows it. Just the comparison of a true 30 inch plus girth is staggering. Thank you to Larry Ramsell and those envolved with trying to bring justice to the sport. |
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Location: Medford, WI | I'm not sure how anyone can say Spray's fish wasn't a 69 lb'er. All of us fishermen/women know that the same exact fish can look like a mid-30 inch fish in one picture and in the next picture it will look like it is easily a 40-inch fish. Some may argue how far the fish is from your body can explain that; but I know you can't tell the difference in some pictures. A 69 lb. fish is very hard to believe; and for some, it is apparently too hard to believe. There's nothing wrong with believing the fish is the world record and there's nothing wrong with having an opinion in which you don't believe the fish is as big as recorded. The fact is the fish was recorded: 69 lb 11 oz and 63.5-inches long...that's that. Have your opinion, discuss if you like, but please don't say you know Spray's fish wasn't that big, because obviously after all the attempts the fish has yet to be proven smaller.
....I can't believe I finally gave in to this! Let's just go out fishing and have a great time...if that's not what it's about, sell your boat and invest in something you enjoy.
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| I'll never know who really shot John Kennedy either, but I won't lose any sleep over it.
I pity the guy who breaks the 70# barrier. He better be ready for a colonoscopy, among other things.
I wish there was a 3rd choice. "Do you really care?" |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | Well did he do it? OJ that is? |
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