Lucky Craft Man

Nice!  What are the dimensions on that sucker?

Very Nice Fish!  Great color and has some girth to it.

Any pictures of the winning fish?

Any results?

FishinNY just informed me that the Chautauqua tourney is on June 11 this year (thought it was on the 4th Saturday again therefore I would miss another one for a wedding) so this will be fun to fish it earlier!

Is there more information on this anywhere?  Is this an open event like it has been in the past?

That would be great until the first time it just deosn't deploy (e.g., dead batteries, loss of link, etc.).  Then you will taking a nice long swim.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I find hard to believe you hadn't caught a muskie in 15 years out of that lake.  As others have mentioned, I would bail on the trolling and cast.  It shouldn't take long to hook up with a fish that way (2 full days tops).

Congratulations to your Dad! Nice looking fish and great picture!

The 53" Muskie report turned out to be not true at all, the kid caught a 37"er and yelled to a passing boat that he caught a 53"er, that person in the passing boat called me and told me about the 53"er.Then I talked to the person's that were in the boat and asked for a picture, that is when they told me the kid stretched the truth!

Larry, I'm glad you were able to get to the bottom of that. A 53" out of Chautauqua would be a great fish! I can't help but think a few are in there, but I don't think I have ever seen a picture of one over 52". You would know better. What was the biggest fish you have ever caught or seen a creditable picture of out of Chautauqua?

Someone in Pat Herkowitz's boat caught & released a Fattie 53" Muskie Today!

Where is the picture of this one?  Great Fish!