To: longbeard who wrote (163204 ) 6/6/2009 1:34:46 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (2) | Respond to It was a world's record without doubt although never made the books. It was recognized locally as such, but it was caught by a grabbing it by the gill by hand off a dock while the fish was 'sunning itself at the surface, so did not qualify as an angling record. An employee of Tupper Hughes Marina caught it. He thought the fish dead so just reached in and hauled it out. It started thrashing when it was on the dock and was far too much for the employee to handle. He hauled it out to his head height, (he was 6' tall) and its tail was still in the water. It was a floating dock so only 4-6 inches above water as it was. Probable length of the fish was about 7 feet. Two people saw it from the restaurant and ran down to the dock and beat the fish to death with baseball bats. It was not notified of any record keeping authority, photographed, or 'officially' weighed. Scales were available at the Marina for weighing gear going into aircraft which frequently tied up at that dock, and they were DOT certified so the 110 lb weight is accurate. (48 inch pike are common there as are Muskie exceeding 30 lbs.) The skull, which was 12 inches long was nailed to a post on the outside of the Marina building for the longest time. Catch date was 1961. I remember it being caught. I don't think the event even reached the newspapers as I recall. I watched as ducks would be pulled under backwards by pike and muskie on that lake often. A 5 foot muskie lived off our dock and would sometimes nip at our toes when we went swimming. I guess he would weigh about 40-50 lbs or thereabouts. We caught a 35 lb muskie off the dock one day, but we thought it too small, so threw it back. Lake has Ouananiche too which you would only see in the spring. They come to the surface and roll, but do not jump. Uncatchable all summer. Brook trout too.
