busterbilly (US)

 I have many many muskie stories but the one I am about to tell you is my most heart aching one. My family has a log cabin on a lake in northern wisconsin and the average muskie you catch there is 40-46 inches and there are also beautiful tiger muskies in there as well wisconsin barred muskies. Well one day I was casually muskie fishing while having lunch on the boat with my family when my lure gets a small hit in about 2-3 feet of water. I say aloud that I probably have a bass or a pike on my line when a ginormous muskie surfaces and rolls with my spinner bait in it's mouth. I had already set the hook and I look at my dad in extreme excitement and awe and my dad gives me the same look back at me. I look at the fish and that's when I realize it. The hook was set in the muskie's upper jaw and it shook the bait out of it's mouth. Nobody said a word. I had lost a lake legend!!!! The muskie had felt like a small fish because when it took the bait, it was just sitting there shaking it's huge head in disbelief that she had eaten the bait. My mom and dad both saw it and give an estimate of over 50 inches and at least 35-40 lbs. At least. This legendary muskie had escaped and I still pursue this muskie at it's same spot today.