Muskie Photo Gallery

[stayman79]

Compare that 38" to the 39" higher up the page. It's all about the hold! You gotta have a good camera man to direct you

stayman

[caseymcq]

Yup, it is all in the hold. My fingers give it away.

[CaptainMusky]

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Yup, it is all in the hold. My fingers give it away.

And Deitz, I am concerned with your pessimistic view of the Hokey Pokey

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Your arms must be 10 feet long! LOL

[WallyGator12000]

Here's my first musky ever! Caught last night on White Bear with a pacemaker on top, we had two more missed connections as well! A modest 36"

[setterguy]

Congrats on the first muskie, now you are hooked. I think its about time to start cranking up...

[caseymcq]

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Yup, it is all in the hold. My fingers give it away.

And Deitz, I am concerned with your pessimistic view of the Hokey Pokey

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Your arms must be 10 feet long! LOL

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Yup, I get road rash on my knuckles all the time

[minnesotamusky]

Caught this one on Fox Lake last week. It was 43". Also caught a 44.5" and a 34".

[bcon2005]

Nice fish! We have hooked into a couple short fish casting bucktails over the tops of weeds. Have you been trolling or casting?

[minnesotamusky]

Caught all of them casting. One on a bucktail, one on a Grandma and the one in the picture was on a Hellhound.

[bcon2005]

Sounds like what we've been doing. I've thrown those grandma's for awhile, then get tired and throw the bucktails again. Both that we caught were right at the boat. Missed two others, but figure 50% at the boat was pretty good. I'm not familiar with a "hell hound", but will check it out. Do you have troubles with the Grandma hanging up in the weeds?

[minnesotamusky]

If my Grandma starts getting caught in the weeds, I will try reeling in a little slower or twitching it a little lighter. If that doesn't work for me, then I will switch to a smaller sized Grandma with a smaller lip. Seems to work for me, most of the time. You really should try a Hellhound. It's one of my favorite baits to throw.

[The Yeti]

This was a couple years ago on Minnetonka. My first ever. We were bass fishing. 12 pound test. Successfully released.

[Andrew Erickson]

yeti how big was that fish?

[The Grebe]

RR 78...That Muskie was taken out of my boat and we weren't sure how big it was?

We had a 36 inch stick on in the boat, but the fish was much larger then that.

The fish was towing the boat around and none of us in the boat had any experience with a fish that big! My personal best was a 16 1/2 pound northern and I think Yeti's may be the 9 pound walleye he got afew years ago. Brian, the 3rd guy in the boat, has about a 10 pound pike as his biggest.

Having that big critter in the boat was a little unnerving to us inexperienced muskie fishermen...it drew blood on both Yeti and I....Brian backed off and let us handle the fish.

When we first seen it come to the side of the boat, we weren't really sure what the he11 we were gonna do? Our net wasn't small, but certainly not made for that fish and I for one had no intention of getting my hands anywhere near that dude!

Yeti expertly fought the fish to the side of the boat, I got it's head in the net and somehow we got it into the boat?

After it smashed and thrashed around for a bit we were able to pin it down and get the hooks out....it had busted right through the net.

The Yeti was pale as a ghost when he held the fish up for the photo. He successfully released it and we have been pitching muskie plugs ever since! We figured the fish to be about 46 inches?

Does anyone out there in the muskie world know how to do some sleuthing, using the picture as a guide to get another interpetation as to length?

[CaptainMusky]

It is hard to tell by a picture, but if I were to guess, I would guess slightly over 40". If you look at his one hand he has 4 fingers showing. On my hand that is about 4 inches across. Now he may have bigger or smaller hands than mine, but that is a guess. Using that I came up with a little over 10 of these across. Maybe 42 +/-, but I don't think it is a lot bigger than that. It is a stout fish though. Many of the from Tonka are on the skinny side.

[MJBo]

The radius of the average human eyeball is .63 inches. If you apply a simple distance normalizing algorithem and then measure the fish using that as a standard the fish measures at between 59.5 and 60.3 inches. Congrats. Thats the way I measure all my fish so I'm pretty good at it!

[The Grebe]

Cap-e-tan...Check out MJBo's formula below yours....I think we'll go with his method! I tried figuring out something using kinda the same method you used...that and a formula sent to me from my bud Dan Thiem....as near as we can figure the fish is 4 1/2 inches long and weighs 60 pounds!

Next time the Yeti comes over, I guess I'm gonna have to measure the width of his head!

[mtreno]

hate to point out the bad news but he is holding the fish away from his body - therefore useing his eyeballs will not work. that would give him the worlds biggest fingers....... look at how big his fingers are compaired to the fin..... i would guess low 40s. nice fish!

[not_nuf_time]

Mjbo, I think your right, my largest Muskie this year measured 47inches, but who knows, that was with one of those silly tapes you put on your boat. Going back and looking at the picture I come up with roughly 98 eyes. So I'm going with 62" Seems your way is more reasonable. Who says those guys at the factory that make those tapes are always right, they could be off by just a smidge. 62 it is.

[Muskie_Man]

I like that kind of measure tape!!!!!!

That means, If I did it right I got a 79in'r!!! Dammit I knew it was a world record!!!!!

[Musky_Madness]

Back to actual muskie pics, here is a estimated 40" fish caught on Lake Alexander on Saturday. My partner did a quick measure and am not sure if it was accurate.

[DinkADunk]

Well this is the first Muskie my wife unhooked and the first one we've boated on Minnetonka. She thought she had a snag, well snag's don't shake their head ! It jumped 3 times which was fun. It measured out at 38". At some point in its life it had mangled up the right side of its mouth pretty good - what an ugly fish

[JRedig]

Well, this is my first muskie!! About a month ago, i went fishing with a friend and his dad on Leech. His dad's a big time muskie fisherman up there. I was hooked. I've grown up fishing for bass a lot and fly fishing a ton. SO over the last month, i stole my dad's boat(thanks dad!!!) put a hitch on my car, loaded up on gear and hit the water. I've been on the lakes in the east metro 13 of the last 14 days casting and trolling my butt off!!

44 incher, caught in about 2 feet of water. Topraider, black. Just after sunset. We saw two fish earlier and had some other hits later on. Thanks for lookin!

[Andrew Erickson]

nice fish guys

[WallyGator12000]

My fishing buddy and I braved 3ft whitecaps today on White Bear in my 14' lund...but it paid off big time! This fish hit a double cowgirl in 2 feet of water, 45" Man this musky fishing is fun!