50" pike from Pewaukee

In the July 2017 In-Fisherman, there is a picture of a massive pike that was entered in the release category, for the Master Angler awards.

The fish was reported caught on Feb 22, 2016, and from the picture, it is easily the largest pike I have ever seen from Wisconsin waters; the girth would appear to be approaching 30".  Easily over 30#, and if it had stripes rather than spots no one would doubt a 40# weight claim.  A true giant that may have been contested the 38# state record.

I've never seen any other reference to this fish.  Does anybody know of any further photos, or story behind the catch?

Being a graphic artist for 20 years before becoming a Marketing Mgr, I was actually on Adobe's PhotoShop beta testing team.

The PS job is arguably one of the worst I've seen.

Nice sleuthing, Driftless.  Thanks for your efforts.

I wanted to believe.  Joe Erhardt (sp?) took an honest 50# musky out of that lake in the 80s, so I thought maybe...

It takes all kinds, I guess.

I wonder who he posts on here as?  Lol

Not only the fish, but look at the jacket (exact same) and the mouth spreader laying on the ice!

Easy to see that he just flipped the photo and photoshopped his head in the pic. Must have made him feel good to do that.

Long story short, I mentioned to a buddy of mine at work about the fish after seeing it in In-fisherman. I said no way was that fish caught in southern Wisconsin. He looked at it and said that he had that same fish as a wall paper pic on his computer. That fish was caught in Canada somewhere. I contacted In-fisherman and showed them these 2 same pictures. They sent me an email back saying they were going to confront the guy from the Pewaukee pic and ask him to explain. I haven't heard anything else from them.

Case closed.  Beautiful fish to the guy who actually caught it.  I hope In-Fisherman posts a retraction and gives the kudos to the angler who deserves them. 

 Do these look familiar? One was caught in Canada.....the other from Pewaukee.......hmmmmm

I did not look at the post below mine. I was not aware he got a 47" musky mounted. That is odd that he would do that and not the pike. Makes the pike way way more suspect. Pretty skeptical now. To take the time to photoshop that picture he must have really wanted that little piece of paper from In-Fisherman lol

Oh my goodness! Thanks for the pic. I am a skeptic no longer....Wow.

Here it is

There was a picture of the fish in the magazine. I'll see if I can find it online or when I get home I can get a snapshot of the photo in the magazine.