56 inch muskie in Brockville

[Dartee]

Anyone see the article in the paper regarding the 56" Muskie caught off the swim dock at St. Lawrence park in Brockville.

An 11yr old with a cheap rod/reel and a 3inch daredevil off the swim doc. The fish of a life time for any fisherman. Man I bet his knees where knocking for hrs afterward.

My kids saw the article and are now questioning if they ever want to swim off that dock again.

[matcole]

any pics at all?

[FatRap]

Found this in the local Brockville rag....

http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/Liv ... $rec=18847

FatRap

[Trophymuskie]

Good news bad news, I bet we yet lost another one of our rare upper St-Lowrance trophy muskies.

With the fish die off going on there they better hurry and make the muskie fishing C&R only and let the world know.

The fisheries went down 50% the first year, I bet it will be worse this year and fish are still been killed.

[FLOATFISHIN]

Richard, as much as I want to agree with you and maybe offer kudo's to a post of yours.......

Yes good news, bad news indeed, and that part I can't argue, but for once the 11 yr old yes indeed did he keep the fish..... Sure, If I was 11 and caught the brute I'd prolly put er on my wall too!

You gotta give thew kid a hand for even being able to weild that fish, let alone he was doing something we all are on here for, HE WAS FISHING!!! Not spray paintin walls, smokin up with buddies, he was fishing!

My hat goes off the young buck, and if the Larry lost one more, sure sad, but, I'd rather see an 11 yr old have that trophy on his wall and the memories of what will sure last the rest of his life to boot it did not go to a meat hunter, (Scuse the term)/ But I'm happy the little guy got it instead of someone who would have done different with the fish, and who knows, maybe he will only want to fish the Mighty Skie from now on and from now on practice C&R for the future of the fishery.

He is only 11 Richard.

My hats off to the little guy!!!!!

Beat my PB by over 4.5"s


Not pickin on ya Rich, just like to see kudo's to a little fella aswell as the idea of the C&R fishery as well, to which you have my vote on aswell!


P.S

Float's almost back

F.F

[joco]

hi all

first thing...................he will sponserd by red devil soon....... ......

wen i was that age,i kept almost everything......to eat or to show my buddies and parents..........

so he those no anything helse.........he is prowd.....and he should be..jee he got a musky i dream about,,,,,.

its bad for the musky population,,,,but like floatfhising said in some way,,mabe he will become the best guy to teach other,,,one day..


there is a lot more that bad thing happening on the water then a kid having a blast off a life time...........


but i do respect what you are saying richard........its to bad for a big femmale(probably) like that.. ....

but thats life.................and it goes on......


joco

[Trophymuskie]

Hey I didn't chastize the kid and good for him, I know of many that have never been lucky enough to ever catch one that big chit there is very few of us to ever boat one. BTW replicas look a lot better and the fish can live to reproduce again. I'm sure they didn't know that at the time the desition as made to kill it.

But I am very sadened by the state of the St-Lawrence and still hear of fish been killed. That's why I am going to look at what's been done to protect the few fish that are left. The fisheries will never rebuilt itself if people keep killing fish.

[Cancatchbass]

It's too bad there was not someone there at the time to educate the boy on the importance of that fish.

I would have loved to have taken photos and measurements so that he could have a replica made.

Losing a good sized muskie from the upper St. Lawrence, especially after what they've been through recently, is not the same as someone keeping a Rideau River fish, or even, for that matter an Ottawa River fish.

Although a ban on keeping any muskies at all from the St. Lawrence would make sense (at least until the full impact of the die-off can be assessed- if that is even possible), pressure from the N.Y. side will apparently not allow this to happen.

Let's hope that the youngster will actually have the fish mounted- some fish are discarded when the angler finds out what it costs to have a fish that large done professionally. Others are ditched because they weren't handled properly- the taxidermist won't touch it, knowing the end product won't be satisfactory.

In those types of situations, it would have been better to have eaten the fish.

A PS

For those new to the board- I pulled 38 dead muskies from the St. Lawrence last year- all between 50 and 64 inches. A real heartbreaker of a situation. The die-off had an immediate affect on the catch rate of muskie anglers. No one knows just what the bottom line on the remaining population is. So far this year, I have found only five "floaters", the largest being 54 inches. Is that good news? Or does it mean there are very few fish left to die from the virus?

[muskymatt]

For those new to the board- I pulled 38 dead muskies from the St. Lawrence last year- all between 50 and 64 inches. A real heartbreaker of a situation. The die-off had an immediate affect on the catch rate of muskie anglers. No one knows just what the bottom line on the remaining population is. So far this year, I have found only five "floaters", the largest being 54 inches. Is that good news? Or does it mean there are very few fish left to die from the virus?

for shame

[lostchild]

Well it's good to see it didn't lose all it's trophy fish, unfortunate about this one, but it was legal, good for the young guy! I know about a week or two ago a 57"and 58" were also caught/released from the Larry, hopefully it can sustain itself from the recent die off.

[Grimace]

that fish is gonna end up costing that poor kid thousands and thousands of
dollars. lol

just like my first walleye. i am still paying for it. but its worth every cent.

a musky hunter is born.

[wolfe]

Interesting the way fish tales grow...

Brian and I just got back from a quick wknd at the (Wolfe) lake, where Bri got chatting with a fellow fisherman who advised him that "a little kid caught a 62", new Canada record, muskellunge from shore on the St. Lawrence." We figured we wouldn't get too excited 'til we read something or heard more on it.

Still...what an amazing feat and I am incredulous that the kid managed to get that fish in without it either snapping the line and / or the pole!

Have to say, I'm also saddened that the fish was kept. First thing out of Ty's mouth was, "Did they have to keep it?" He's a little kid too, but we've kind of put the conservative edge to his outdoors education.

I can surely understand the excitement of the young angler, and imagine he will be telling his grandkids all about it in his golden years!

W.

[Badger Shark]

My biggest catch today was a 4 inch large mouth, man what a fight, my lure was bigger than him. Ive never even caught a musky so congrats to that kid. Yet it is unfortunate he kept it. Wonder if he charters?

[Muskie Rush]

Trophymuskie wrote:
"I bet we yet lost another one of our rare upper St-Lowrance trophy muskies. "


100O Islands St. Lawrence trophy muskie are so rare that must explain why we hear a see reports of these extremely large fish still being caught. I can't think of any other body of water that can produce size and numbers of truly giant muskie even with last years devastating die off. To early to write off the fishery. I Agree with Cancatchbass about a temporary moratorium being implimented strictly as a precautionary measure.

[Pickerel Paul]

Fish of a lifetime!!