July 18th, 2011

Last weekend, my brother-in-law Steve and I were fishing on Shadow Lake near Coboconk.  Steve landed this muskie after an exciting fight that saw the fish jump out of the water three times.  We had a scale, but there seemed to be no way of hooking it into the muskie without having the scale cut into it. The muskie is over a metre long, and probably weighed 18-20 pounds. Pike look pretty similar to muskies, but pike have light spots on a dark body, and muskies have dark spots on a light body. Plus, some old-timer told us there were no pike in this lake, but lots of muskie. We took a few pictures and then let it go. It was the biggest fish either of us have ever caught.