the kids went out last monday and came across this musky on lake waconia. 54" and very stinky at #37.5 might have been #45+ ? looks like a possible prop hit that smacked it back ?

Not sure they are that far south but it sure looks like
Pollyhumper bite marks to me.

Dude..... Pull up our pants

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quote mastertangler: "Not sure they are that far south but it sure looks like
Pollyhumper bite marks to me. "

I searched the entire internet and found only one other reference to a Pollyhumper was made by you. I still don't know what it is???

quote Savage Voyageur: "

quote mastertangler: "Not sure they are that far south but it sure looks like
Pollyhumper bite marks to me. "

I searched the entire internet and found only one other reference to a Pollyhumper was made by you. I still don't know what it is???"

I think it's something that screws parrots.

Odds are it died after being caught previously. Possibly a poor job of releasing it or possibly kept out of the water to long, or too much stress during the fight. The prop mark is more likely to have happened after it died and was floating on the top of the water.

quote Savage Voyageur: "

quote mastertangler: "Not sure they are that far south but it sure looks like
Pollyhumper bite marks to me. "

I searched the entire internet and found only one other reference to a Pollyhumper was made by you. I still don't know what it is???"

I think its actually a typo, it should have read "The Polly Humper". Either way if your next BWCA trip takes your through Lake Polly you may want to sleep with one eye open just in case.

That's a big musky but I think I would have just left it floating :)

quote mr.barley: "

quote Savage Voyageur: "

quote mastertangler: "Not sure they are that far south but it sure looks like
Pollyhumper bite marks to me. "

I searched the entire internet and found only one other reference to a Pollyhumper was made by you. I still don't know what it is???"

I think it's something that screws parrots."

LOL :-)

if you click on the pic with my son holding the fish and click + the fishes head is as big as his, and i'm sure it weighed more i think #45 is not a streatch. maybe it was just this fishes time ? but i have heard stories of big pike/musky hitting boat props.

Big muskies caught and released in warm water temps have a high mortality rate. A lot of Muskie fishermen will avoid going out when it is too hot.

Could've been a failed catch and release but usually muskies caught locally around 55" end up in the paper or online, I don't remember anyone catching one recently---so I think that is the most unlikely scenario. A musky that big in Waconia is most likely nearing or at it's end of life cycle, so it probably just passed and was hit by a boat after it died, all of it is pure conjecture though.

Big fish anyway ya look at it.

T

quote timatkn: "Could've been a failed catch and release but usually muskies caught locally around 55" end up in the paper or online, I don't remember anyone catching one recently---so I think that is the most unlikely scenario. A musky that big in Waconia is most likely nearing or at it's end of life cycle, so it probably just passed and was hit by a boat after it died, all of it is pure conjecture


Big fish anyway ya look at it.


T"

+1 me and the kids are leaning your way, 1 said 55" and pic of my kid holding in the water with his pants down(yes he doesnt get it yet), that tail is touching the water, and they both commented on not how long the head was but how wide it was. and stinking that bad i think you could put #5-#10 on that fish easy. 1 thing we know for sure is the racoons ate good for awhile ;)

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quote yogiweedr: "Dude..... Pull up our pants"

He has a belt but it appears to be for decoration.

I missed out that day! What a Fish!

Before blaming a careless angler, fish DO die from natural causes. Also pollution from industrial and agriculture runoff are the main cause of fish kills.

The latest edition of outdoor news had a picture of some dude with a 54" musky out of waconia. I bet that's her.

Can't really tell by the pic,but if a prop hit that thing there would be a sizable gash on it somewhere...

quote plittle: "The latest edition of outdoor news had a picture of some dude with a 54" musky out of waconia. I bet that's her."

it sure could be ? a young lady caught a 55" earlier this year. they have been stocking muskies in waconia since 1984, and all though i havent hooked into a big 1 i have seen a few monster follow ups, there is a good amount of trophies in waconia, of all species, i'm lucky to live within 4 blocks of waconia.

quote yogi59weedr: "Can't really tell by the pic,but if a prop hit that thing there would be a sizable gash on it somewhere..."

i wasnt with the kids but 1st pic right side of head looks like a gash ?

quote plittle: "The latest edition of outdoor news had a picture of some dude with a 54" musky out of waconia. I bet that's her."

I saw that too this weekend and thought of this post but wasn't that fish in outdoor news caught the month before this fish was found? I already threw the magazine out but that was my recollection. If so the chances of being the same fish would be pretty slim I think.

T

Pollyhumpers.......

We have a resident expert who remains in the shadows and who first educated me to the mystery and potential dangers of these huge beasts that inhabit the deeper and larger waters of the Canadian Sheild country.

They are thought to be prehistoric something akin to the Loch Ness. Both inhabit the deeper waters and make occasional forays into shallower waters where they are thought to feed on fish. There is a reason there isn't more 40" pike and 50" muskie around.

While there is no documented attacks on a canoe ancient pictographs depict 2 stick figures in a canoe type vessel with can only be described as a large set of jaws crushing the vessel. This picto was "scrubbed" by the powers that be as it was deemed to be bad for tourism.

Numerous scientific studies have been launched (under the guise of "water quality" tests) to ascertain the current population. Unfortunately the creatures, when at rest, are indistinguishable from the rocky crags of the deeper lakes.

They are considered mostly fish eaters and largely non threatening to people excepting during the breeding season which may be several years apart. But much is still unknown at this point. All things considered I paddle very quietly on any lake I suspect may harbor them and stay off the water at night when they are most active.

That's pretty much what I know and quite a bit of it is second hand. Scoff if you must........but just remember the mayor in that documentary with that other really big fish. Under the aforementioned picto mentioned earlier were the deciphered words "we are going to need a bigger canoe".