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"…
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.
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.
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.
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