How many here have landed a Muskie over 54″ ( Legal size in MN. )

  • Northcoast
    Posts: 26
    January 11, 2023 at 10:43 pm #2172862

    Here is a post spawn Shoepack my youngest son caught on the fly last year – upper 30s range.

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    timschmitz
    Waconia MN
    Posts: 1652
    January 12, 2023 at 3:49 am #2172869

    I have 5 over 54” with a 55” being the biggest. All from the metro. Muskie fishing use to consume my ever waking moment but since I became a father I only fish Muskies a few times a year now. Times have sure changed.

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    Morel King
    PLAINVIEW MN
    Posts: 520
    January 12, 2023 at 6:19 am #2172877

    37” shoepac hit a leech on a crawler harness . They were pounding our walleye baits that year . Even chasing our stringer over the edge of the boat

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    sunseteyes
    Posts: 75
    January 12, 2023 at 8:16 am #2172892

    Three over 54 personally and have netted two others. Unfortunately the biggest one I have ever seen hooked came off a couple feet from the net. It was a legit 56-57″.

    Timmy
    Posts: 1182
    January 12, 2023 at 9:09 am #2172930
    gimruis wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BrianF wrote:</div>
    Biggest tiger was a fat 45” – from Tonka of all places.

    That’s a rare fish because they aren’t stocked there. So it was a naturally produced one in your case. That’s a massive tiger too. A 40+ incher is like a 50+ inch pure strain.

    I have personally witnessed a 50” tiger. Presumably a “naturally hatched” monster. It was massive – fat as can be. Crapped all over the boat when netted.

    gimruis
    Plymouth, MN
    Posts: 14767
    January 12, 2023 at 9:13 am #2172936
    Timmy wrote:

    I have personally witnessed a 50” tiger. Presumably a “naturally hatched” monster.

    Good god, ya that is a true freak.

    CaptainMusky
    Posts: 19219
    January 12, 2023 at 9:14 am #2172938

    Remember that tiger caught on the St Louis River several years ago? I dont think that was 50″ but it was enormous!

    Michael C. Winther
    Reedsburg, WI
    Posts: 1480
    January 12, 2023 at 11:03 am #2172999

    i’ve caught one fish i suspect was a Shoepack strain.
    and my buddy released this ginormous 51.25″ tiger in Utah.

    we were a lot younger then!

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    Bob Bowman
    MN
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    January 13, 2023 at 8:14 am #2173301

    Haven’t broke 55, yet…

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    CaptainMusky
    Posts: 19219
    January 13, 2023 at 8:19 am #2173308

    Those are some slobs! Is that last pic the Sartell Dam? Ive seen guys fishing there for muskies and heard there are some big ones in there, but its so hard to get a boat in there unless you have a riverpro or some small boat. Ive ice fished out there and its a smorgasbord of species.

    brandmoney
    Posts: 262
    January 13, 2023 at 8:39 am #2173313

    47″ pure strain (leech lake while bass fishing)
    35″ tiger (metro, also bass fishing)

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