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    Default Biggest PA muskies from lakes or rivers?

    Does anyone know where the largest PA musky caught in PA over the past few decades came from?

    I know many guys have stuck some real pigs over the years but I am talking about "official" weights or lengths. If my memory serves me correctly, Steve Warner told me about a Kinzua fish that weighed 47 pounds that was caught in 1987, I think.
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    If I am not mistaken Pittsburghs own Doug Pavick has had the largest musky reported to gf in PA in 04 05 and in 07 these fish were over 40 puond I can not remeber the wieght he told me . The one fish was to say have a 26 inch girth. these were river fish I believe I think up near kinzu and caught casting doug very rarely trolls. I wil ask him to confirm size and length and were I think he even said were in the pa article . 26 inch girth is whaler, I caught one that had a 25 inch girth casting also and it was ungodly a monster ,when they have that girth they are around or climbing over or 40 pounds . Kinzu has some big fish in it but not a good stable population the ratio is very low per acre I just read a article on it they were saying this. The bigest this past year for me was 46 casting it was a lake fish. I had less time this year but that day in 7 hours I stuck 5 it was a good day ,the other 2 guys caught one each and total combined catch and hook ups were 11 . It was great a father and son first time musky fishing they were in aww and tired at the end . the boy age 12 caught a 42 1/2 incher casting hes hooked for life.

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    this is an article from pa angler and boater. im surprised i found it i remembered reading it a few years back. hope it helps.
    http://www.fish.state.pa.us/anglerbo...ec1muskies.pdf
    it is a bit old.
    Last edited by b.bent66; 02-25-2009 at 09:58 AM.

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    There are many big fish that are not reported to the PFBC for obvious reasons. Some that are published in there have only been seen/verified by a witness (unless the format has changed over the past several years) and supposedly on accurate scales. Hopefully, the witnesses are honest guys.

    The fish being held in the PFBC article by Mike was actually caught by Dave Bradley from Warren. I think there was a misprint in the caption beside that fish. Either way, it was a hog. Dave caught it trolling over 70 feet of water, I think.
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    I remember reading this article years back and since we are talking about BIG fish, I decided to steal this link from another site:

    http://www.fishinfo.com/fishing-arti...icle_384.shtml
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    Here's a picture I have saved on my work computer of a PA fish caught out of a Western Pa lake. Close to a 40#er. I don't know the angler, hence the blocked out face.



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