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| Congrats! What a hog!!! Does that fish have a clipped fin? |
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Location: West Metro, MN | Congrats!!! What an incredible fish. Thanks for sharing the story! |
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Location: Valpo IN | Well done - the memories will last forever for ya |
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| Congrats Roger, Jason, and Jody! That is a beast!! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Congrats,....That will make a great replica for your Man Cave
I'm jealous,,,Very nice catch. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Congratulations a legit record buster, Roger! |
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Location: MN | Very happy for my good friend Roger! Definitely a fish of a lifetime. There was a lot of relief when it was in the net to say the least. Happy to know that it is still out there swimming in the pond. Great work Jason.
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| Congrats on a Great Fish!!! A special thanks, to all the CPR Muskie fisherman that have made these type of fish possible! This is what it is all about! |
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Location: Chicago western burbs | Congrats. Knowing that you have put it back, and given someone else the opportunity to catch it, is what makes musky fisherman great! Thanks for representing us all so well! |
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| That's a great fish, good job and congrats guys! The musky world thanks you for releasing that beast...it's the only way to produce the next World record. |
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| Rog, what an awesome muskie. Congrats on the release! I'm sending you a PM also.
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| Great work Roger and as other have said thanks for letting her go to make others that hopefully resemble her and giving someone else the opportunity of a lifetime! You da' man! |
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Location: IL | What a HOG!!! |
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| Thanks, this big fish is going in a coffee table. I will be contacting LAX for the work of art. Rick LAX has been a big supporter of our Muskies Inc. Group and he has done a great job on other buddies prize fish.
Kind of like hiring Jason to guide us, when you want the best results you hire the best. |
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| From all of us here at Thorne Bros....Congratulations Roger! Stop in sometime soon and tell us a story 
Katie & TB Crew |
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Location: Central Wi | Contrats on the Fish to both you and Jason... CPR is great... Well Done! |
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| Congrats. That was a true giant! |
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| Congrats and another testiment to why we hire Jason Hamernick to try to get a shot at a beast like that. |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Absolute beast! The pond produces again! |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | Great story and an AMAZING Fish! CONGRATS to the angler and guide!!! |
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| That's what we're out there for...Wonderful fish..Congrats! |
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Location: Plymouth, MN | Unbelievable catch and release! Thanks for the pics.
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Way to cap off a season!!!!! Surely youll submit it in the M1st big fish contest if its still around and or the Muskies inc contest as well. Who knows you may get that coffee table at a greatly reduced rate.
Gotta say it again, That is sweet!!!!!!!
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| I did not see any fins clipped. I thought it had a pretty small head considering and my initial thought is that this fish has crazy potential to grow even bigger. Someone else had commented that maybe the head seemed small because the body is SO big.
I would like to think it is going to grow even more. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | MuskyRog - 11/5/2012 2:56 PM I did not see any fins clipped. I thought it had a pretty small head considering and my initial thought is that this fish has crazy potential to grow even bigger. Someone else had commented that maybe the head seemed small because the body is SO big. I would like to think it is going to grow even more. Sure looks like she's missing her left pelvic fin to me. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Yup...me too Will.
AWESOME catch, btw!
TB |
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Location: 31 | MuskyRog - 11/5/2012 1:56 PM I did not see any fins clipped. I thought it had a pretty small head considering and my initial thought is that this fish has crazy potential to grow even bigger. Someone else had commented that maybe the head seemed small because the body is SO big. I would like to think it is going to grow even more. First of all congratulations on catching a fish the weight of which 99.9 % of us will never see. A truly amazing capture and release!
Reducing the girth by 1/2 - 1" with the 800 formula is the most accurate way to determine the weight (the reason for the reduce is because the 800 formula was compiled using dead fish). Using the modified 800 formula with a 1" reduction puts that fish at just under 55 pounds, and IMHO very likely a released state record.
It has a clipped fin so you might be able to pinpoint the year class... and I would also attribute the small looking head to a natural comparison to the body. Unless a muskie is very young, the head is proportional to the skeleton/length. It's very obvious this fish was handled by true professionals and sportsmen from start to finish... nothing was mishandled or exaggerated. Very impressive!
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Location: Oconomowoc, WI | Wow! Congrats on the fish of a lifetime. I wouldn't have blamed you if you would have kept it, but I give you credit for letting her go to fight another day.
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | that things a pig congrats |
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| Awesome fish congratulations! |
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