Ok, I don't know about you, but I love looking at any big fish pictures. So just to get everyone even more stoked for the upcoming season, here are a few pictures of some GIANTS that you may not have seen before. Unfortunately, I am in no way connected to any of these fish, therefore the anglers identities have been censored. All fish were caught in Michigan, the oldest of which is the state record fish in 2000, the rest were all more recent. Forget all those thoughts and questions that surely will be the first things to come to mind, like WHERE? SPEARED? RELEASED?, and just admire the fish and know that they swim in our very own Michigan waters!! And feel free to add more if you got em, I'd like to see!
First, the state record (51" 49.75lb). Ok I lied about not discussing the 'WHERE' – I guess you cannot have any muskie record without controversy. You all know it was reported as Thornapple, but it was originally reported to DNR as Tahquamenon River. That didn't even pass the laugh test for a multitude of reasons. There is still some speculation that it was not a Thorn fish, even though the lake certainly could and has produced 50lb. class fish.
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a 51" 46lb.!!! pig
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a 54" POST-spawn giant
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another 54" spring time fish
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this beast is 56 1/8" and 42 lbs.!
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That's the first thing I thought too Jason. Even though that fish looks like it was taking the year off from spawning- those huge OLD fish will spawn every other year because of the toll it takes on them to produce the eggs and all that- its a pretty safe bet it weighed more than 42 live weight. Like John E. says, those things dry out on the order of POUNDS per day, its actually pretty crazy how fast they lose weight.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
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Hemi I think this was an Ovid fish. [smilie=smoke.gif]
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