A “TRUE” Minnesota state record Muskie released!

  • jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    July 18, 2011 at 3:15 pm #1240232

    HOLY CRAP! Pulled this from another site. 49 lb. Tiger out of the St. Louis River..released to fight another day! Huge congrats to the angler.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    July 18, 2011 at 3:44 pm #981751

    Holy cow…that thing looks like it just swallowed a farm pig

    Congrats to the angler

    skeeter20
    Winnie/Grand Rapids,MN
    Posts: 902
    July 18, 2011 at 3:56 pm #981754

    What a pig! I give props for releasing a fish like that. If I got a state record fish in my hands pretty sure its coming home with me.

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    July 18, 2011 at 3:59 pm #981757

    Let me be the first…..

    I saw it posted elsewhere claiming Eagle River, WI area……

    Awesome fish regardless.

    T

    ottomatica
    Lino Lakes, MN
    Posts: 1380
    July 18, 2011 at 4:08 pm #981760

    Let me be the true first. There’s no way that fish was a state record…nice fish but not a state record…

    JK, nice fish, I wouldn’t know regardless…

    Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1814
    July 18, 2011 at 4:31 pm #981768

    Looks like a record to me. Here is the old record

    Muskellunge, Tiger 34lbs. 12oz. 51″ length, 22.5″ girth Lake Elmo, Washington County Josh Stevenson, Woodbury, MN 7/7/99

    crossin_eyes
    Lakeville, MN
    Posts: 1379
    July 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm #981770

    Not sure if that looks like the St. Louis river in the background of that pic, but none the less, that thing is an absolute tank!!

    85lund
    Menomonie, WI
    Posts: 2317
    July 18, 2011 at 4:37 pm #981771

    What about the state record walleye in its belly…

    dank
    Minneapolis, MN
    Posts: 1123
    July 18, 2011 at 4:44 pm #981774

    Chris
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 1396
    July 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm #981789

    wow, that thing is a tank! My eyes popped out of my head when I saw the picture… imagine the adrenaline rush when it surfaced!

    Kudos on releasing the beast.

    skeeter20
    Winnie/Grand Rapids,MN
    Posts: 902
    July 18, 2011 at 7:31 pm #981822

    Quote:

    Let me be the first…..

    I saw it posted elsewhere claiming Eagle River, WI area……

    Awesome fish regardless.

    T

    Here is the real poster. It was on the St. Louis River.
    http://www.thenextbite.com/node/19879

    salmo_trutta
    River Falls,WI
    Posts: 661
    July 18, 2011 at 11:21 pm #981884

    fish of dreams right there, even better that the angler C.P.R.’d as well, impressive catch.

    sootie
    arcadia wi,
    Posts: 213
    July 19, 2011 at 1:03 am #981905

    wow great looking fish looks like record to me

    rangerski
    North Metro
    Posts: 539
    July 19, 2011 at 3:55 am #981955

    It’s to bad the MNDNR is shutdown (except enforcement). Record would not have counted regardless. Congrats to the angler and the release.

    huskerdu
    Posts: 592
    July 19, 2011 at 4:04 am #981958

    Quote:

    Holy cow…that thing looks like it just swallowed a farm pig
    Most of the pigs on the farm, holy cow!
    Congrats to the angler

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    July 19, 2011 at 6:35 am #981969

    That is really one amazing Musky,
    Congratulations.

    Jack

    youngfry
    Northeast Iowa
    Posts: 629
    July 19, 2011 at 12:07 pm #982009

    thats unreal. Was the fish just a complete overeater or did it have a “condition”. Either way… awesome TIGER

    timmy
    Posts: 1960
    July 19, 2011 at 12:41 pm #982018

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Let me be the first…..

    I saw it posted elsewhere claiming Eagle River, WI area……

    Awesome fish regardless.

    T

    Here is the real poster. It was on the St. Louis River.
    http://www.thenextbite.com/node/19879

    Excellent!! I hope that is accurate and I am wrong!!

    Michael Moy
    S.W. Wright Co. Mn.
    Posts: 31
    July 19, 2011 at 7:33 pm #982199

    Quote:

    It’s to bad the MNDNR is shutdown (except enforcement). Record would not have counted regardless. Congrats to the angler and the release.

    RangerSki, why do you say it would not count because of state shutdown,there is not a time limit to get a fish certified. A fish must be weighed on a certified scale,[like at a meat market if it that big] witnessed,and then taken to a fisheries office to have the species verified and get the offical form to register it.

    shaley
    Milford IA
    Posts: 2178
    July 19, 2011 at 10:26 pm #982246

    Quote:

    Quote:

    It’s to bad the MNDNR is shutdown (except enforcement). Record would not have counted regardless. Congrats to the angler and the release.

    RangerSki, why do you say it would not count because of state shutdown,there is not a time limit to get a fish certified. A fish must be weighed on a certified scale,[like at a meat market if it that big] witnessed,and then taken to a fisheries office to have the species verified and get the offical form to register it.

    Those waters have a 50″ lenth limit…

    rangerski
    North Metro
    Posts: 539
    July 20, 2011 at 1:39 am #982282

    It is not legal to keep it like Shaley said….

    youngfry
    Northeast Iowa
    Posts: 629
    July 20, 2011 at 1:15 pm #982351

    This is especially true for muskies but other species as well, but with conservation practices of many dedicated anglers, lots of people (including myself) would not kill a fish on the chance it is a state record. Is that a requirement? If so, maybe its time for change on that rule. Obvious hurdles exist with getting a certified weight but I’m sure the MN govt could quickly and skillfully negotiate that obstacle

    prieser
    Byron, MN
    Posts: 2274
    August 1, 2011 at 7:54 pm #985527

    Nice Ski

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