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Location: minocqua, wi. | Flambeauski - 1/16/2013 8:36 AM
Jim Peck's?
that one is 65" with a 28" girth ... |
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| i once had a guy tell me he muskie fished for 19 years without a follow with some of the best guides... then went to canada and finally had a follow off the dock.
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Location: Smith Creek | jonnysled - 1/16/2013 8:39 AM
Flambeauski - 1/16/2013 8:36 AM
Jim Peck's?
that one is 65" with a 28" girth ...
This could be whole new thread, weird things people say at the muskie pond at Jim Peck's.
"Leave your sister alone or I'm throwing you in the pond with the muskies!"
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| Flambeauski - 1/16/2013 8:36 AM
Jim Peck's?
Good one! No usually it's a "private" lake. |
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| Peter Stoltman - 1/16/2013 8:05 AM
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.
Yeah... I hear about a LOT of 50"+ fish up that way. Yet most of my friends who live there and fish there all of the time have never caught one. Funny how the biggest fish always know how to avoid the guide boats and seasoned anglers, isn't it? Maybe muskies are smarter than we give them credit for... Or they've all gone to greener pastures over on the Chip..  |
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| esoxaddict - 1/16/2013 4:48 PM
Peter Stoltman - 1/16/2013 8:05 AM
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.
Yeah... I hear about a LOT of 50"+ fish up that way. Yet most of my friends who live there and fish there all of the time have never caught one. Funny how the biggest fish always know how to avoid the guide boats and seasoned anglers, isn't it? Maybe muskies are smarter than we give them credit for... Or they've all gone to greener pastures over on the Chip.. ;- )
I had a resort owner at the Chicago show tell me that he was netting fish for research at the lake his resort is on. He netted a fish so big it was longer than the boat was wide - 80" boat......or so the story goes at least. Fish thrashed out of the boat before it could be measured and weighed. 
I want to believe. 
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| People can't help themselves. A few years back I had a neighbor ask if I'd seen the 50 incher hanging around by another neighbors dock. This was pre-season and there were a lot of fish cruising the shallows doing the spawning thing. A couple days later we were both on the lakefront when the guy yells to me "There she is!!!" . He pointed out a fish that may have gone 42 inches tops and he insisted that it was a 50 incher. No point arguing, just smiled and said "yep, nice fish". |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The horse tank in the boat photo. Big darned fish. |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Steve,
yessir it was! |
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| esoxaddict, I've grown up in Oneida County, have been musky fishing for what now...24 years I'll call it? We have plenty of 50's, but for some reason you're right...they are #*^@ smart! |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Amen Pete. "The hotbed" for fish stories... Though I know 2 guys that swear they have video of a 60" tiger they lost and a pic of an upper 50" musky from northern WI they caught 20 years ago... I have been waiting 3 years to see the pics/video... might be in for a long wait. |
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| FAT-SKI - 1/18/2013 7:55 AM
Contender - 1/17/2013 4:13 PM
esoxfly - 1/14/2013 5:09 PM
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Pshhh, 36" smallie is nothin, I'm waiting on my first 50" walleye ;-)
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| A couple years ago I was launching my boat and there was 4 young adults fishing with bobbers from the ramp. They ask me what I was fishing for and I replied musky. The one young guy says, the fishing was good until they started putting musky in here about 4 years ago. Musky have been in the that river for over 35 years. I had to laugh. |
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| I had a guy tell me that he saw one of the 6 footers that were stocked by helicopters in the river I fish! That was a change from the classics like "as big as a RR tie" or " It was at least 5 feet long " I can't help myself to play along with them though!
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| I just looked at the green cards And the biggest fish from Shabbona is 50 inches. http://www.ifishillinois.org/science/MUE_Creel_Project_Report_87-10... |
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| I really can't say if it is one particular bait shop that was responsible, or if it was all of them....but there was a particularly virulent story spread over a very long time (years) that a particlular resident on Watersmeet Lake, one with a really distinctly marked boathouse door, was hand feeding two 50's every night at dusk off his pier. The word was that if the guy was out there, you should stay away until he was done feeding the muskies. Now, you would think that nobody would believe a story like this, wouldn't you? Well, you would be wrong! People still camp on that spot. |
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| muskie24/7 - 1/20/2013 9:25 AM
I had a guy tell me that he saw one of the 6 footers that were stocked by helicopters in the river I fish! That was a change from the classics like "as big as a RR tie" or " It was at least 5 feet long " I can't help myself to play along with them though! :)
Holy crap, nice walleye! |
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| toddb - 1/16/2013 9:25 PM
trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe...
Terry from Merkel's seems like a great guy. I plan on going to his camp one day. Not sure what the exact size of that fish is, but it looks bigger than anything I've ever seen in print or person. Wasn't Lebeau the one doing the research/netting in that picture? Larry Ramsell talks about that fish in his books. I'm sure Steve W. has seen some knee bucklers in his days on the Goon. The lake to the west of the Goon gets all the headlines, but people are missing the boat by not fishing that old murky water.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | You guys talking about this fish? Really hard to tell from the perspective just how big it is...
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| Yep, thats the one! |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | (Dr.) Bernard Lebeau told me that the fish in the photo was bigger than the O'brien fish (he saw both). Of course now we know that O'brien's fish was only 54 inches long, so obviously this one was bigger....how big we'll never know as she escaped before she could be weighed and measured and have a transmitter placed in her! |
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| Larry Ramsell - 1/23/2013 10:18 PM
(Dr.) Bernard Lebeau told me that the fish in the photo was bigger than the O'brien fish (he saw both). Of course now we know that O'brien's fish was only 54 inches long, so obviously this one was bigger....how big we'll never know as she escaped before she could be weighed and measured and have a transmitter placed in her!
Is the size of the netting mesh known? Should be easy photo analysis |
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Location: Minnesota Metro | Everyone knows "the lake to the west" is the only place around that you can catch monsters like that...Lord Herbeck told me so.
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toddb - 1/16/2013 9:25 PM
trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe...
Terry from Merkel's seems like a great guy. I plan on going to his camp one day. Not sure what the exact size of that fish is, but it looks bigger than anything I've ever seen in print or person. Wasn't Lebeau the one doing the research/netting in that picture? Larry Ramsell talks about that fish in his books. I'm sure Steve W. has seen some knee bucklers in his days on the Goon. The lake to the west of the Goon gets all the headlines, but people are missing the boat by not fishing that old murky water.
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | IAJustin:
The rope with the bouy on the left is five feet from the center rope that is over the tail meat of the fish. My estimate is that the fish is in the high 50 inch range! |
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| Larry, in your book, you have logged a dead fish that was verified floating on Wabigoon. I think it was around 62-64". Did you ever get to see photos of the fish? |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Elkman99:
No photo's, but the jaw was in a shop in town for awhile and I saw it there and have a photo of it which is in the book with the story. |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Trout,
good one- Lord Herbeck, Mikie and Scotty J all have stories about giant fish on Eagle and I believe them too. Fished Wabigoon several years with success but Eagle definitely showed me bigger fish and better numbers.
No doubt the 'goon has some giants lurking also, just never saw one with my eyes. Terry is a good dude and can tell a story with the best of them... Troutwater - 1/24/2013 3:37 AM
Everyone knows "the lake to the west" is the only place around that you can catch monsters like that...Lord Herbeck told me so.
Elkman99 - 1/23/2013 7:23 AM
toddb - 1/16/2013 9:25 PM
trax
Wabigoon eh? I heard the same story and was shown a pic of an extremely large fish along with the story. I wanted to believe...
Terry from Merkel's seems like a great guy. I plan on going to his camp one day. Not sure what the exact size of that fish is, but it looks bigger than anything I've ever seen in print or person. Wasn't Lebeau the one doing the research/netting in that picture? Larry Ramsell talks about that fish in his books. I'm sure Steve W. has seen some knee bucklers in his days on the Goon. The lake to the west of the Goon gets all the headlines, but people are missing the boat by not fishing that old murky water.
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