'Mommy, there's a monster fish in the sand!'
By Celeste Beam, Staff Reporter
Friday, 9/13/02
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Posted on 09/14/2002 5:52:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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'Mommy, there's a monster fish in the sand!'
By Celeste Beam, Staff Reporter
Friday, 9/13/02
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Catching a muskie is no easy task.
But, for three little girls who live on Lake Miltona, it was as easy as taking a walk on their beach.
When the Jones girls, Jordyn, 2, Josie, 5, and Justine, 8, took a walk down to the lake one hot summer day to play in the sand, they found a surprise.
Running up to the house, they yelled at their mom, "Mommy, there is a monster fish on the sand!" explained the girls’ mom, Genny.
She thought a big sunfish washed up on shore, she noted, immediately grabbing a spade to scoop up the fish so she could throw it away.
To Genny’s surprise, the spade was too small for the fish that washed upon the shoreline.
Instead of just a big sunfish, Genny indeed found a "monster fish" — it was a muskie that she estimated to be 54 to 55 inches long.
"I am about 61.5 inches tall," she said. "And the muskie measured up to my nose."
Genny didn’t know what to do with the fish, except bury it.
"I immediately thought about how it might smell, so I ended up burying it," she said. "I didn’t realize I would have to dig a shallow grave."
She added, "I thought when the girls told me about a dead fish on shore, I would be able to just throw it away."
After burying the muskie, Genny said, she realized that she should have called someone, but didn’t know who to call.
She noted that when she checked the fish out, it appeared to be completely intact, adding that it didn’t appear to be traumatized.
Her daughters also didn’t appear to be traumatized by the event, Genny said, noting that they are now interested in learning about muskies, but are still spending time in the lake — swimming, boating and tubing.
The Echo Press contacted Bob Volkert, a member of Muskies Inc., to find out his thoughts on the fish.
He estimated that the fish could have weighed as much as 52 pounds, noting that it was definitely a trophy-sized fish.
"It is probably the biggest I’ve heard about in this area," Volkert said.
Although, he noted that one of the Muskies Inc. members caught one similar is size this summer.
Uff Da.. He's a Big 'Un.
'traumatized'?
By a dead fish laying on the beach?
God help us.
What's next, being "traumatized" by the rib roast in the meat dept?
Evidently there is a place called lake Teal in Iowa (i think - its been a long time) that had a monster muskie as long as a canoe. Both of these guys claimed to have been fishing crappie when it hit the crappie & pulled the line off their reels.
It's supposed to be sort of a local legend, with guys going after it with deep sea rigs & not getting it.
Sounds like this man is slightly hacked off that these girls got the big one all of them at Muskies Inc. have been looking for all their lives. Geesh, if it is true that one of the other members did catch one where is the documented proof?
LOL!
Picture a young woman, with clothing and hair straight from a 1950's clip art collection, with her fist shoved into her mouth, screaming at the meat...
Then a man, Bogart's twin, in a tailored wide lapel suit, wearing a fedora cocked jauntily over one eye, lashes out, slapping her violently across the face as he growls, "Get hold of yourself you crazy broad!"
Sobbing she collapses in his arms, blubbering, "Thanks... I... I... needed that."
Mommy, I think I'll name my muskie "Edmund".
It's the screeching eel from "The Princess Bride"
Exactly.
Life's an ongoing 'trauma'.
But it beats the hell out of the much more peaceful alternative.
They'd really be traumatized.
Thanks, Charles.
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