What a PIG!!!

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Dont like to promote another website, but this worth looking at

WOW Can anyone say road trip

I’m thinking that is the largest eye I’ve ever seen!

Whoa!!! Seen pics like that from the Columbia river but Michigan? Too bad Scott did’nt consider a graphite replica,look at the eggs in that girl.Road trip is right!thx for that Moreyes.

Hmmmmm! Have I seen that fish before? Not the picture, just the fish.

Nope! Thought it was Father Walleye’s. Did a search and the picture is different. My bad!

15 1/2 pounds!!!!!!!!!Now that’s a HAWG.

WOW!

I’ve seen one that might have been pretty close to that one. I caught and released a 33 1/4″ long, 27″ girth walleye in a Nebraska reservoir. I called the game and parks to see what the weight might have been and they thought around 14-16#.

Caught the big girl 8 years ago during the spawn. In fact, that is the last time I have fished the spawn cause I decided it isn’t worth the hassle. I had 2 guys from Lincoln Nebraska that was about ready to drown me that night and have just never had the need to do it again. At least I can say I ended on a high note though. I caught and released 4 big girls that night, a 30 1/2″, 31″, 31 1/2″, and the 33 1/4″. I think that is what ticked them 2 old timers off cause they had been there since dark and hadn’t had a hit and I come down with the wife in tow at 11:00 pm and fish 2 hours and catch them 4.

I bet you would give up the cats for one of those

That is a MOSNSTER!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Kirt,
I was HOPING that was you holding that PIG..
Super Walleye..
Jack..

Wow nice fish in anyones book even us cat anglers

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Kirt,
I was HOPING that was you holding that PIG..
Super Walleye..
Jack..

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In my dreams

Could he have stuffed that fish into the camera any further? seems to be a bit of an optical allusion, but I am no expert. I prefer to see guys hold trophys close to there body instead of stuffing it into the camera to make it look like a great white, if a fish is truly a trophy there will be no question about its integrity then. Sorry to rain on this big walleye parade just my 2 cents worth

There is no optical illusion here….that thing is a monster!

Too bad he didn’t release it…

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Could he have stuffed that fish into the camera any further? seems to be a bit of an optical allusion, but I am no expert. I prefer to see guys hold trophys close to there body instead of stuffing it into the camera to make it look like a great white, if a fish is truly a trophy there will be no question about its integrity then. Sorry to rain on this big walleye parade just my 2 cents worth

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Well said. You see those type of pics on this site(and all other sites/mags, etc…) all the time. Every smallmouth appears to be 25″ long and every walleye looks to be 35″. In my opinion, it makes all the photos look the same and gives no representation of the fish’s actual size. I do laugh, though, when the fishermans fingers look like rings of baloney . It seems as though lots of guys have hands the size of a catchers mitt!

Tim

Does anyone know if eyes this big still continue to spawn? Was told by a guide that ‘eyes over 27″ are found to be sterile and no longer contribute to the gene pool.

I don’t know about them being sterile or not but I know they have eggs. That big one that I caught was dropping eggs pretty good when I caught her.

It certainly looks like a belly full of eggsess, nice fish and congradulations on your trophy. No shame in my book for keeping the real thing for the wall, I look with great pride on my 33# laker on the wall every time I pass her and if I hadn’t kept it I would of had only memories because the camera was not loaded with film that day…there is a guy that caught a 51# musky on the last day of the season this year row trolling in 15 degree weather and guys on another site got on his case for keeping the “sacred musky” – this gentleman put in over 40 years of his life fishing for the one big trophy then when he caught it (by himself in a 12′ row boat) he gets backlash from the dont kill the precious fish club. oh well you cant please all people at all times you can only please yourself….this was also the first documented 50# + musky in Wisconsin in 17 years and she had virtually no eggs and nothing in her stomach.

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Does anyone know if eyes this big still continue to spawn? Was told by a guide that ‘eyes over 27″ are found to be sterile and no longer contribute to the gene pool.

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From what I am told by some friends that work in the fisheries division, They still spawn but the number of eggs that hatch are very small. The ones that survive have the right genes to grow big though.

Ron

That thing is a BEAST

That is a monster eye. 2 years ago, one of the guys in our fishing group got a 36″er out of Lake Erie that weighed right at 16 pounds. That was the biggest eye I have ever had the pleasure to hold.