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Look what I caught yesterday!!

55 inch MUSKIE, in Lake of the Woods Ontario Canada

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 2 2012 23:16:30

Kevin James Shanahan

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

Nice one , big mouth on that thing . Heaps of meat hope its good to eat . I got a nice jewfish of the beach last night, about three kilo , hoping its the start of a good summer of fresh fish .

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 3 2012 2:07:37

Anders Eliasson

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

Thats a big monster.

Are they as bad behaviored as their coisin, the pike? I can imagine that this fellow made your adrenalin move around very fast.
Do you eat them. In Denmark, pikes are mostly used for fishmeat balls and they are very delicious.
The french eat pikes in a lot of different ways and consider pike to be a very fine meal.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 3 2012 7:37:30

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to Anders Eliasson)

Anders
The Muskie is the King predator of the lake
They are similar to pike ,but are a different species
It is found only in some areas of north america..and is much less populated than Pike
This fish is only 4 or 5 inches short of the record ever caught in canada
I have been hunting for a big one for 35 years
In my life I have only caught 5 of them
This is a dream come true for me.

He was released back into the water after only long enough to measure and photograph. much too old and tuff to eat.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 0:02:13

estebanana

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

That is amazing, I have heard Muskie that size are really hard to catch.
What did you catch it on? How big were the four others?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 0:50:59

Kevin James Shanahan

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

Congratulations c . I get it

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 1:49:28

Ruphus

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

Fishing is one of the things that put me into wild contradiction as an animal friend who in the same time and strangely finds it thrilling to lurk with a fishing rod. ( Quarreling with friends about who please is to finally kill the quarry.)

- Have not been fishing since many years. Over here it is said that you need to drive 500 km at least to reach to natural fishing grounds ( other than commercial / artifical fishing ponds, which - catching what has been filled in beforehand- is something that I find ridiculous ). Yet, I am certain that even out there on the country side the fish would be intoxicated.

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ORIGINAL: c

It is found only in some areas of north america..and is much less populated than Pike

Is that now for environmental destruction, or would this species be rare ever since?

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ORIGINAL: c

He was released back into the water after only long enough to measure and photograph.

Good move. I hope he will recover.

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ORIGINAL: c

much too old and tuff to eat.

How is this to be imagined with fish?
A friend once brought me a prepared old chicken from his mother´s yard, strongly recommending me to make a soup of it.
Ignoring his advice I fried it, and boy: Chewing car tire would had been comparably tender.

Now, I can hardly imagine tough fish meat. Would it rather be that elderly muskie tastes strange?

Thanks for the heads up in advance!

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 11:22:15

Escribano

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

quote:

He was released back into the water after only long enough to measure and photograph. much too old and tuff to eat.

That makes me happy and well done to you.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 11:34:20

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to Escribano)

This fish is possibly 75 years old
I would guess he may have been caught before
The lake is covered in 4 feet of ice for 6 months of the year
The water is cool and the fish grow slow.
There is lots of other smaller kinds of fish that taste so much better.
Muskie is not the best tasting fish, but is not bad at all.

c

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 13:42:24

Ruphus

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

At that age he would be qualified for old-age pension even in Germany!
... Then again, at current and coming rates for retired none-officials he´d be better up with staying under four feet of ice and grab the one or other occasional stickleback.

Rock on, muskie!

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 4 2012 13:57:07

estebanana

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RE: Look what I caught yesterday!! (in reply to c)

A muskie that size would eat a two foot long pike. They call them the freshwater barracuda

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 5 2012 0:07:43