Mike Sheils caught what his friend Bruce Kalinowski called a possible “fish of a lifetime.”
Sheils, of Harwood Heights, caught the 51 3/4-inch muskie with a 23-inch girth on July 29 on Minnesota’s Lake Vermilion.
“Caught it at 6:45 a.m. on a weed edge along a main channel,” Sheils emailed. “Fish hit the [Mepps] boatside.”
“Looks like a proud father holding his new child,” Kalinowski emailed.
Deservedly so.
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