Holy Cow -- Anyone see that PIGGY pulled out of White Bear

[RuKiddingMe]

Seen it on the channel 5 10 o'clock news last night. Bet WB will be packed for the remainder of the season.

Very Nice fish, a true fall piggy.

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S11617.html?cat=1

Congrats to the Angler, and Kudos to him for releasing it.

RU

[TurnUpTheFishing]

I saw that too. Definatley got to give the man props on the release.

Think its safe to say that WB will have a state record swimming in it next year?

[Jim Hudson]

Shes a PIG.. Hopefully I will get to hoist one up as big this coming week!!

[Slyster]

Clay Ring.. you a member of the fishing forums? Tell us the story!

[Random guy]

That would explain the parade of boats on the bear. I thought I was just late getting to the landing.

Good job on the release and great job on the fish Clay!

[mtreno]

52.5 - now dont get me wrong thats a huge fish (bigger than my best for sure). but its not that close to the record.......

[Guest]

It might rival a record if it lives another 10 years..

yes, it was a pig with a ton of girth... but saying that fish may have weighed 40# is stretching it.. has a long ways to go to be a record.

[Random guy]

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52.5 - now dont get me wrong thats a huge fish (bigger than my best for sure). but its not that close to the record.......

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It's the news. It needs to be a big deal, they also called it a Big Mouth Musky in the article. I have caught alot of musky through the years but have never caught a big mouth musky, and I'm a big mouthed musky fisherman.

[TurnUpTheFishing]

So the fish wasnt actually weighed in at 50lbs. it was just added to the news story?

Im not huge into muskies and thought it seemed a 50lb muskie would need to be longer than low 50"s, even with a nice girth.

[Fish-n-Freak]

My biggest to date 57 x 26 was calculated by Larry Ramsell at 49.8 pounds -- Huge fish and still not a TRUE 50 pounder?

That 52.5" fish would have had to have the girth of Mike Tice's head to reach 50 pounds. ;-)

Still a nice fish and thanks for letting her go.

Steve

[mtreno]

Big mouthed musky - oh i see - so does that mean that we all have been fishing for the small mouthed version? so when i am thinking my 12inch jake is too small for the small mouthed musky - going to need a 30 incher to start this new "big mouth musky" fishin.

better start another forum.........

[The Prodigy]

I thought that the low 50"'s weighed in around the low to mid 30lbs. I am just wondering. I have nothing but congrats and envy for to dude that caught that fish - truely awesome!!! But if anybody could give me a length/weight convertion for a few numbers that would be great.

Thanks - The Prodigy

[AWH]

This talk of "big mouthed" muskies reminds me of when my brother bought his fishing license last year. The question he was asked when he bought his license was if he harvested any "big toothed" bass last year. So there are two rare species that are swimming in our waters. Not only the big mouthed muskies but also the big toothed bass!

Aaron

[Random guy]

As long as they are toothy and mean I wanna catch em!

[RuKiddingMe]

Not so good at the catch'n em part, but man I love to chase them. Maybe you could teach me a thing or two there Jon... haha

One thing to remember about this story, it came from the media, without the typical media frabrication it never would have made the news in the first place. These reporters have no idea what this fish is, much less the size and typical "nicknames" we give them. I take the information provided in the article for the small grain of salt it's worth and just drool over the picture of such a beast out of one of our local inter city lakes.

I'm sure the guy that caught the fish laughed histarically when he seen the segment on the news. Just like everything else in this world the media over exaggerated...

RU

[Doonbuggy]

The conversion I use for muskies and pike (seems accurate for walleyes, too) is one that I got here on FM: length x girth x girth / 800 = weight.

Not sure how somebody developed that but it has proven to be quite accurate.

DB

[TBone1]

That is the best conversion I have used. It seems to always be within a pound of the actual weight. And yes very nice fish- but a 50 pounder, not.

[Andrew Erickson]

Thats one of the biggest metro muskies i ever seen even though its under 50 pounds it still huge.Nice fish.

[Zelmsdawg]

Using the length x girth x girth / 800 = weight and giving the fish a 52.5" length and weight of 50lbs, the formula says the fish only has to have a 27.6" girth. thats realistic, isn't it as long as i did my math right...

Zelmsdawg

[Carp-fisher]

Cabelas in Owatonna has a 54" musky mount that is estimated at a weight of 60lbs. It seems to me that there is a huge variation in the girth of 'skis, so perhaps a thick 52" could go 50lbs...

[CaptainMusky]

There was a 52" musky pulled from Mille Lacs a couple of years ago that weighed 50#. The state record from Winnie was 57" I believe (54#). It really depends on time of year, but you have to have girth to get the weight. Length is important, but I have seen some 42 to 44 inch fish that were approaching 35#. Tankers.

That story makes me wonder if someone they interviewed told them it was called a Big Mouthed musky to be funny. Or were they just that creative? LOL either way!