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Controversial World's Largest Real Muskie

Controversial World's Largest Real Muskie

Come see, mounted on the wall, the biggest muskie fish ever caught. Maybe. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

Controversial World's Largest Real Muskie

The muskie on display here, the only 70-pounder ever caught, will forever have an asterisk next to its name because the scale that was used to weigh it was not officially certified. This 70-pound, 4-ounce record-holder, caught by Bob Malo on June 6, 1954, bests the muskie in the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame by a full ten ounces, enough of a lead, we'd think, to override any scale error. But freshwater fishing is a sport of rules and verification, and this suspect muskie must therefore be banished to the back pages of the record books.

It's some small compensation that it's displayed in a clean, bright, sportsman's lodge, unlike its other rival, a 67-pound, 6-ouncer, in the dark and smoky Moccasin Bar. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 12/02/2005]