I guess it wasn't a farce after all.
 
Took me a while to dig this up and here's what I found.
 
http://news.google.com/ne...BAJ&pg=3396,418336

I'm not buying it ! There are already discrepancies in this story. Salt says the fish was not in too bad of shape and the article says the fish was already too beat up and not much left because animals got to it !  This is 1986 and I know digital cameras are not around yet but those cheap 110 cameras were every where! I can't believe someone would not attempt to run down to the grocery store and grab a camera off the shelf for such a rare, rare find. They are even at a sporting goods store and no one is even thinking about a photo for backup ! This had to be the fishing story of the year in that area! Someone would of had too say go get a camera because nobody will believe the size of this monster ! 35mm cameras were also fairly common I know because I lugged one around for years. 67 inches is just to hard for me to fathom without some kind of verification. I'm not calling someone a liar but I think there is cause for serious doubt......that's just my opinion. 
Rich, we usually wait till the season reopens in May.

Fellas, I know fish gain size with speculations. My son and I were ice fishing P.I. quite a few winters ago(7-8) and we started to hear rumors from other fishermen of a 17" perch. I'm game I have heard of such creatures and had to see it. Well as we were going back to the #3 parking area and loading up the gear to move to Misery a fella we talked to finally was a first person observer of said beheamouth. He points to a shanty that looked 1/2 mile out. I looked at my son and he said lets go. So we walked with tape measure all the way out. I didn't need the tape, it was a nice 14" jumbo. And I did tape it at 14", which is a true jumbo. That illusive 17" perch must be out there because I have heard of so many of them. I sure haven't seen one. There is still probably a bunch of anglers talking about the 17" perch someone caught that day.
I saw a carp swim by me once, that I still hesitate to tell others how big it was. Knowone would beleave me! 

As far I know though, a 59" musky is the longest that has been officially recorded. 

I guess I've always been a doubter on certain unbelievable things all my life. Especially outdoor events that involve hunting and fishing. Lets say I'm cautious,  I don't doubt that there is some truth to those stories but I'm more inclined to believe if it sounds too good or extreme it's usually false. To me when one has a photograph it's about 99% believable not 100% because photos can also be distorted some what. I always say show me several photos of that object and then I'm usually sold. I'm talking "extreme stories" not your average. I don't need to see several photos of a normal size fish or deer I don't doubt those .Too many times there are false photos posted on the internet and phones of false trophy fish or game animals. They usually post only "one photo" and usually there are no people recognizable in that photo. They will say this enormous deer (photo) was killed locally and my buddy's friend seen it and sent me the photo. All you see in the photo is a dead trophy deer with hunters boots standing next to it. Not 3 or 4 photos just one !! When you backtrack to find out who really seen it, it leads to nowhere ! In this digital camera age why would anybody only take one photo of a lifetime trophy or something truly rare ? Dead batteries can happen ( I know ) but if that animal or fish is being kept that excuse won't fly. Once again I'm talking the rare, extreme, almost totally unbelievable tales !

Captain, anytime you say "I'm not calling anyone a liar", in reality you are.  The article was in the May 18 edition of a Bend Oregon Paper.  How long did the story take to make it to Bend?  Obviously it went out UPI, but how long before they picked up a story of a dead muskie in Monongahela?  So what explains the discrepancies you point out?  One, in 1986 fishing narcissists weren't as common as they are now so no, we didn't have a camera.  The muskie was pulled out of the river on the east bank just below the old Monongahela bridge location.  It was in good condition, not something you would run to the taxidermist, but not the condition described in the article.  Now, speculating a little here, it sounds to me by the comments made in the article that it was either "found" near pigeon creek or the aquatorium.  Both of these features are on the west side.  Did a dead fish swim the river?  Doubtful, but the other feature of the Monongahela river in this area was that, at that time, all of the boat launches were on the west side.  I don't remember the date I saw the fish, but I do know what I was doing.  I was crappie fishing; specifically, I was headed for pigeon creek to hit the schools of crappies that used to commonly spawn there.  Although I cant say for sure the date, I know I was crappie fishing and NOT walleye fishing.  I checked, walleye(and therefore musky) came in May 3.  I find it reasonable to think(guess, postulate) that they may have picked that fish up taken it to the boat ramp to measure it, and then dumped it back in the water(at one of the west side launches) because it was too early in the season.  One launch, at that time, was an unimproved launch right at the aquatorium and the other was Hannas Harbour just about maybe two miles upriver.  Either one would put it on the side I presume is being talked about in the article, and either one would give it time to change from the condition I saw it in to the condition described.  All speculation(other than I was crappie fishing) but it makes sense.
 
 A photo makes it 99% not 100%?  So the Holocaust, the assassination of JFK, landing on the moon and the recent ISIS murders, all are only 99%?

wait a minute, Capt,n, you,re sayin theres no squach? but i saw several blurry pics in the 60 or 70,s from the enquirer about a russian or mongolian woman who had a half squatch half human baby. you tellin me thats only 99 % true? da*n !!! lol wire

Mikastorm
My guess this was caught along  the Sandy Creek Trail above Kennerdell in the Allegheny.

Good guess.....the word is Freeport on the Allegheny. Don't know , don't matter , just saying.
Wirenut ck. it out...... LOL !

Wirenut if that is you, I am pretty sure you'll not need worry about 'spot burning'.  Something that ugly (no offense) will have not only that spot but, the whole stream and it's tributaries too!

It was caught at Tamarack

Just spent the past 6 hrs. enjoying the company of my brother as, we had a good time fishing Pymie.  As for the fishing, my report is as follows..........!!!!!!!!!
 
Thankyou and good night.

HEE HEE...............
 
 
I do have some of those short leader fishing lures available; couldn't use them effectively for toooooo many tourist boating on the lake.  However, I would liked to have tossed a few toward all those dang rental pontoons being piloted by "old hair men" trying to show off their junk!
 
Now get off that 'puter' and on your boat, Walcat.   Ummmmm, wait, what the heck am I doing on the 'puter'?
 
I gotta get.  

sure am missing that lake right now.  hopefully the fall will bring less work and more opportunity.  in this insane and politically goofy world, pymy is one of the few places that make sense to me anymore.