April 2013 SOTM Entry: VA Musky

Charlie Gordon honing in on his craft.

Tennessee Muskie

Fly fishing for musky is a tough game of hide and seek. When you find them they follow, refuse, take and let go, but sometimes they really take and it's a rush of adrenaline like no other fresh water fish can give.

Fondness for musky outweighs desire for state record

Scott Berrier loves to catch a musky, but he's bound and determined not to hurt a musky. He knew that taking the time to get the big fish to a set of scales that could handle it would be a death sentence, so he got a picture, took the relevant measurements — it was 53 inches long with a girth of 26½ inches — and let it go.

LINK (Via: Knox News)

First Annual Musky Fly Fishing World Championships Announced!

The First Annual Musky Fly Fishing World Championships will take place Saturday, March 24th 2012.

Rock Island, TN will be ground zero for the inaugural event.

LINK (Via: Zero 2 Hero)

Maashkinoozhe

A stellar musky trip journal post from Tosh Brown.

Government Shutdown Prevents Potential Record Fish

Well sort of....

John Gergen landed a monster musky on Lake Sallie in Minnesota that came in at 57.5 inches and 54+ pounds on the family scale -- a weight that would break the state record.

Only problem for John was that due to Minnesota's government shutdown, that is also threatening to cut off the states beer supply, he could not find an open DNR office to direct him to a certified scale.So instead of doing a Google search, which would have told him that the local meat market or bait shop would have a state certified scale, he gave up on getting the fish officially weighed.

LINK (Via: The Twin Cities Pioneer Press)