Michigan Muskie Alliance

I'm having a garage sale and have some musky baits for sale and a guy starts telling me a story about a 6 foot musky him and his dad caught in robins bay. Pulled all the line off their reel twice, they finally caught up to it going full speed with their pontoon boat an hour later!! It was way too big to net so they just cut the line because they didn't have a pistol. Supposedly its still in there and its so big now its making trenches in the shallows as it swims along!!! I think I'm gonna go try to catch it, anyone wanna go with me? I'll make sure I bring my pistol too!
It was almost impossible to not tell this moron what a b.s.er he was and how full of s**t he is. It was an amazing story and an even better story teller. I love talking to morons just to hear their stories.
What's the best you've heard?

There are so many...
I think my favorite is still the story of the muskie that was biting the heads off the ducks, geese and swans in Murray Lake. A lady that was feeding the waterfowl called the DNR about all the headless birds. The DNR came out and told her it was a muskie, they eventually netted the muskie. Turns out the fish was 84" long and the DNR moved the fish to Thornapple Lake.

Like Will said, too many to count and I haven't even been at this anywhere near as long as him or many guys. I'm actually shocked when I hear a non muskie fisherman comment on a musky they saw and they don't claim it to be 60"+. There isn't many or any other fish species that brings about more ridiculous stories than muskies.

My favorite started out as a garden variety dog-eating musky hanging around the park in Thornapple. But after several dogs, the musky attacked a human swimmer, which finally got the attention of the DNR (and presumably Chief Brody). The DNR came in and electroshocked the musky, which also was 84" by the way. They were forced to destroy the fish because "once they get a taste for human blood, they don't give it up"...

Heard one once about a guy catching the world record on 8the lb flouro and having to lasso it to get it in... oh wait that one happened

Yea Vano, that sounds like a fish story!!

That one moron on fbook that added a few of us.. Went thru some of his pics and he claimed he and his friend consistently catch 60+ inch fish out of the flat river every fall.. One of his pics mentioned a 59 and a 61 caught in the same day out of the flat, which were obviously murray fish.

yeah he had pictures of about a 34" fish which he ate of course and was going on and on about a 73" he caught but the pictures were on his mom's camera or other such nonsense.

I once heard of a "pro" on the upper chain with a boat wrapped with a giant muskie head who caught a 60"er in front of the launch on one of the lakes. The guy pointed out exactly where she was caught. I have spies everywhere Will!

Heard one once about a guy catching the world record on 8the lb flouro and having to lasso it to get it in... oh wait that one happened

Haha yeah that.

My great uncle used to tell a story of hooking fish on a rural Iron County lake that he said was too big to get in the boat. It was one of the colder lake trout lakes out there, though.

I have heard my fair share of "fish" stories as well. Matter of fact, I just got into an argument last week with some hicks that claimed the 20-22 pound salmon I was looking right at weighed 40 pounds "if the guts were still in it". Really,... 40 pounds?,..40 FN pounds! Not even close, although it was a nice fish.
I do hold on to one long,long shot explanation for a couple of these mysterious fish encounters though. Sturgeon! Thorn and Gun could possibly,maybe, probably not, but ya never know, have one or two of these fish swimming around in them. People could think they are muskies because it may be a "muskie" lake. Or it could drag them around for a few seconds before snapping their line. I know its very doubtful, but yet it is possible.

Chris Musselman wrote:I once heard of a "pro" on the upper chain with a boat wrapped with a giant muskie head who caught a 60"er in front of the launch on one of the lakes. The guy pointed out exactly where she was caught. I have spies everywhere Will!

What?

I'll explain when we fish long...

After a long day of catching no fish at thornapple, a guy at the car pool on the east beltline saw my boat and long story made short told me about a musky in thornapple eating German shepherd puppies untill the electroshocked the whole lake to kill it. I felt like electroshocking him at that point.

Apparently, there's a 72" muskie that hangs out in the Moot every spring without fail. Surprising, as the story comes from a very educated and competitive bass fisherman that knows his stuff and has caught decent muskies in the past...yet swears the fish is as large as he is tall. He's not a BS'er and he's very knowledgeable, yet he SWEARS it's 6' long.

Fish of legend.