Just an update for everyone, I got ahold of Mr. Michael Kurre the Minnesota Dnr State Record Fish Program Coordinator with one of my emails. He says in order to verify the fishs weight & size I would have to bring the fish back to Minnesota and it would need to be unthawed, weighed and verified by two Minnesota Dnr agents only, it cannot be done here in Wisconsin. He says a Minnesota fish must be done there only. Well I don’t plan on going back up there till next winter so I guess I’ll just have to be happy with putting it on the wall and telling story’s about what could have been a record if I would have went thru the all the mumblejumble to get it verified. I’m still happy either way, it’ll always be a trophy in my book.

Thanks for all the nice posts everyone, I sure enjoyed catch’n him. I cant wait to get back up there in Gods country next winter and try my luck again!

I took the picture to my local Dnr office and he said it was a pumpkinseed, but maybe he was wrong, hard for me to tell the differences, this fish does have some red right on the outer edge of the gill, hard to see in the pick though.

-mplspug,

It wasn’t caught in the Grand Rapids area it was Northwest of there by aways.

Thanks Timmy,

I’ll check into, I don’t know how it would work now after its been frozen for a week now and that I live here in Wisconsin and if Minnesota would honor what a certified scale says here in Wisconsin with witness’s at a Wisconsin Dnr office. I’ll also check into the Master angler program.
Either way I was thrilled to catch the fish and will have him on my wall some day to share with everybody!

I have whole fish packed in the freezer now still, I am not sure about how to go about getting it certified and such? I plan on having it mounted.

I got a Laser Pro this year and it has same problem drill 3 holes and it pops off the the fuel hose behind primer, put back on start up and pops off fuel hose again. I put some mini tie straps on to see if this will help. Didn’t try it on the ice this way yet. Mine also doesn’t cut very well its like it came with dull blades and I have to press down to much to get it to cut. Finally got ahold of Rapala/Strikemaster and what a joke to get ahold of these people, you can only contact them via email and hard to get a phone# to get ahold of a real person to talk to either.

I think mine seeps/leaks a little gas out around fuel lines where they come out of the gas tank thru the rubber grommett also.

I sent them pics of the blades & the pitch and they want me to send the powerhead & augershaft (the whole unit) back to them to be looked at, I really don’t want to be out of an auger right now, but what’s a guy to do, I need it to work better than this… this thing is brand new!