World Record Muskie...

[Steve Foss]

Ouch!

[jkrash]

Good job on the story Steve

I bet this fish will be a 60 lber in a year or three when I catch it

[widetrack]

RK, Not all of us can be a pretty-boy-metrosexual like you...

Jim, Nope, just picked your name up from the thread... Just a congrats from me... Dandy fish.

I wish I could share the 54fatty my friend caught with me this fall... Biggest fish the guy has ever caught in 25yrs of fishing muskies (and he has some dandies) and his film didn't load properly, so we were shooting blanks all week...

I'm not sure who was more bummed, him or me...

[RK]

Bahahaa...funny stuff Widetrack. Nice to see you're still around. Starting to think you'd froze to death up there. Whooped it up with Jon the Cop in Indianapolis a while back. Hurt for 2 days. Tell DH congrats on the fish...

RK

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RK, Glad you took that in jest... I couldn't resist a good jab back...

It wasn't DH that caught it, it was my friend John W. Not sure if you have met him before...

Take care...

[Steve Foss]

Hey Widetrack:

Nice avatar of the Esox coming into the hole. But, ummm, where'd you get an OVAL auger blade???

[widetrack]

Ya, avatar sizes do some funky things to picture sizes...

I can't ever get them to look normal...

[Blue Kayak]

Here is some new information on Louis Spray's world record musky. This was reported by Mike Norris Outdoors on January 17, 2006.

The National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame decided a report challenging Louie Spray's 1949 world record musky lacks sufficient merit to overturn the mark. The World Record Muskie Alliance (WRMA) reported to the Hall of Fame that based on photogrammetric analysis the Spray muskie was only about 53 1/2 inches instead of the claimed 63 1/2 inches.

However, the Hall of Fame hired two math professors, and they reported the fish was in the range of 61 1/8 inches to 66 5/8 inches.

This isn't the end of the controversy. The WRMA stated, "... and we will again turn the matter over to qualified, independent experts, and report our findings to the media and general public as soon as they become available."