There were even "death-bed" confessions acknowledging personal misdeeds.
In reality, many of these fish have since been discredited for various reasons, including not being caught legally (netted, blasted, or bought), being stuffed with water, sand, or metal objects to make them heavier, or being outright fabrications as to their claimed weights. Uninitiated muskie anglers might conclude that this was the golden age for record muskies.
Most of those fish were claimed to be over 60 pounds, with Art Lawton, Louis Spray, and Robert Malo each claiming fish of nearly 70 pounds. By some accounts, more than a third of the top-50 muskies of all time were registered by these individuals, primarily from the late 1930s to early 1960s. Most historical lists of the largest muskies ever caught are dominated by a handful of names such as Spray, Lawton, and Hartman. Muskie records are embroiled in controversy like no other fish.
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