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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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| Two of my favorites...
"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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