Young Christopher Swon caught his while muskie fishing the first time in November with some friends on Bankson Lake in southwest Michigan.

``He caught the muskie on a Rapala and it was the only one the whole weekend,'' his dad Peter said. ``The tape measure he had was only 40 inches long, and the fish was bigger than that!''

I like that way of describing a big fish.

The Willowbrook fisherman released his muskie after photos.

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