http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2013/07/wisconsin-angler-releases-possible-world-record-muskie

wow.  Beast.

Makes my pb musky look small. 

Wow that thing is huge!

Proof that branding works.

in our area we have huge musky, stripers, flatheads and blues- yet the most popular by far is LMB. Slonezp has the same, plus salmon and trout.

All these fish fight harder, and get much bigger than any bass.  Some even with indeterminate growth which has always kept adrenalin going.

That's a heck of a muskie.  As with any record or near record fish, they aren't easy to come by simply because there are less of them.  

wow.  Beast.

Makes my pb musky look small. 

Likewise. My PB is 45" and it looks like a minnow compared to this guys.  Serious musky guys would have given a kidney to land that.

Likewise. My PB is 45" and it looks like a minnow compared to this guys.  Serious musky guys would have given a kidney to land that.

Same size here, and feel like I could have used mine on a swimbait rod for that thing.

My PB is a 40" I wonder at what point they stop growing lengthwise and just get fatter.

My PB is a 40" I wonder at what point they stop growing lengthwise and just get fatter.

 

The answer to that is around the 60" mark.

Personally, im glad to see that fish released.

My biggest muskie was 8 lbs, oh man

Hopefully that musky got fish slime all over that Packer coat.

That thing could make a meal of almost anything that lives in the lakes around me!

Hopefully that musky got fish slime all over that Packer coat.

Bears look decent so far

Revisiting this. While undoubtedly a large fish, the 64" measure has been completely discredited. There have been several biologists that looked at it again and they have compared several "know " measurements to those of the fish and it is more around the 52" mark; not even remotely close to the world record.

Source? I am interested in reading more about this.

That fish isn't close to 64", 54 I would believe. My family muskie fishes a lot and the biggest we've landed is 55. Pretty similar to that fish.

I have revisited the article on a few other sites/blogs since then, and I'm not convinced of the original 64" either.  Granted, it's a huge fish and I'd be stoked to catch it but I don't think it's what they claimed. 

 

Still a fish of a lifetime. Glad it's still swimming.

Hard to believe it took close to an hour to land it.

Muskies Inc had a write up  about it, Wisconsin DNR had a bit about it, there are quite a few floating around out there.

This brings to mind a question I've thought of before. If you think you've caught a record, how do you go about getting it weighed on a certified scale? And wouldn't the fish be hard to keep alive while you were trying to find a certified scale? If I caught an awesome fish, I think I'd rather throw it back in alive and well than get credit for a record.

I'm not sure if it's changed but you used to have to keep it so it could be examined to determine it was the species you wanted to submit it for and that it wasn't tampered with (lead or rocks in the stomach). They have length world records for catch and release fish but I don't know if it works the same for weighed fish.