It's long overdue that I update this page. Muskie
fishing has been incredible in 2004 and I'm going to start posting all the
muskies that were 40 inches or better on this page for the past few years.
The first addition to the page will be the photos of the 50 inches
from 2004. Check these hawgs out and you'll see why people chase around
the lake looking for the perfect point, weedbed, and rock reef.
October 50 inchers!
53" beast
pretty 51"
fall fish
another 51" fatty
All three of the above fish were caught during the week
of October 23-30, 2004. With Randy B's 50.5" fish that is below, that
made 4 fish that were 50+ caught during the last week of October by our guests.
Jordan Dahl (WIS) Randy
B (MN)
52"x25" - Oct 10/2004
50.5"x22" - Oct 31/2004
50" - August 24/2004
THE WEEK THE MUSKIES WENT CRAZY.
I was here to witness it and it was still hard to believe. It started
innocently enough on August 2, 2004 with Tom Harvey's 52 incher (measure
without a tail pinch) and ended August 7,. 2004 with Joe Aldworth's 51 incher.
In between those 2 monsters, there were 6 other fish caught in the 50
inch class for a total of 8 in one week by our guests/customers. Simply
unheard of!!
Joe Aldworth (WIS) Ronda Beaulieu (MN)
51"x24" - Aug 7/04
52" - Aug 6/04
Len
Rubesch (WIS) Len, again (same
day!) Dick Stelter (WIS)
53"x24" - Aug 5/04
50"x25" - Aug 5/04 54.5"x23" - Aug 4/04
Doug
Kauffman (WIS)
Bill Nuyttens (IL)
Tom Harvey (SD)
50" - Aug 4/04
52"x19.5" - Aug 2/04
52" - Aug 2/04
Wow. What an amazing week. We even made the
homepage of a popular fishing website.
JustFishOntario.com put our spread
of 50 inches on it for everyone visiting the site to see. That's something
I doubt I will ever see again. It was great being a small part of it.
Thanks to everyone for generously getting the photos to me.
Garrett Gingerich
(IN) Jim Graham (KY)
50" - July 22/04 50" - late
May 2004
WOW! That is
12 muskies 50 inches or better through October
11 of 2004. There is one other 50 incher I know of caught by a customer
of ours and possibly a second one without a photo caught by a guest in late
June. I'll get my detectives on the case and see if I can produce some
evidence before I add them to the totals. There is still some great
muskie action to come this fall so the 50 inch club could grow some more
yet!
Other Muskie Photos
Dan Hanson (left) & Dan Klein of the First
Wis Chapter of Muskies, Inc.
All 3 fish
were 48+ inches and caught & released during the last week of July in
2001.
Bob Baietto (Peoria,
IL)
48" - July 2001
Aaron Dammen (MN)
Dennis Dammen (MN)
Brad Meyer (IA)
Larry Meyer (IA)
Dick Sudyka (NE)
John Pfaff
Paul Klancher (WI)
Jim Everett (WI)
J. Olesczuk (WI) T. Smetana (WI) J. Olesczuk (WI)