Awesome fish!!

[Mayfly]

I'm kicking myself this week.....I was supposed to at least be in this boat. Would of loved to witness this!





Article From: Minnesota Bound


For years anglers have been talking about Mille Lacs producing the next state record muskie. On Saturday, Oct. 27, it almost did. Joe Kiritschenko, of Woodbury, caught a 55-inch muskie on Saturday that measured one inch short and four pounds light of the state record. The record muskie, measuring 56 inches and 54 pounds, was caught on Lake Winnibigoshish in 1957.



Fifty years later, Kiritschenko came close. He caught the muskie, which had a 27.5-inch girth, while jigging a new Magnum Bull Dawg. “I was working the Bull Dawg really slowly when I raised the fish,” Kiritschenko recalls, “I let the bait drop and when I pulled up again I felt this dead weight on the line. Then the fish took off from the front of the boat to the back of the boat and into deep water.”

 

After finally landing the fish, Kiritschenko cut the hooks, but the muskie couldn’t be revived. Which means Kiritschenko has a monster muskie to mount. Hopefully he has the wall space.

 

“This is something I never imagined,” Kiritschenko said. “I’ve fished my whole life for muskies, and this is the fish of a lifetime for me.”

 

His fishing partner, Josh Stevenson, owns the state record for tiger muskie. Stevenson caught his famed 51-inch, 34-pound 12-ounce tiger muskie on Lake Elmo in 1999. But he’s never seen anything like Saturday’s fish. “That was the biggest muskie I’ve ever seen in my life,” Stevenson admits. “I didn’t even catch the fish, and I still can’t sleep I’m so excited.”

[UncleDave]

Wow.  What a monster!  If you have a smaller dog, I would avoid letting it swim in Mille Lacs!

[tripnchip]

That had to be nothing but a pure adrenline rush. Tell yor buddy congrates.

[laker]

What a 'pig' of a fish! Hats off to Joe.

[GRIZ]

Well if he doesn't have the wall space, I could let him hang it in my fish house for the winter.

[repoman]

i take it josh was guideing him ? thats a monster though 

[GuideGirlsMom]

Holy Cows--What a monster!!! I would just about die if that came on my hook!!! I bet U will find space on the wall for that!!!! GGM