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Making Muskie Mark

Angler catches 58-pound Great Lakes muskellunge, breaks Michigan record

Making Muskie Mark
Jason Seeberger landed this record muskie with brother Chuck and friend Jason Orbeck. (Courtesy Jason Seeberger)

When Joseph Seeberger hooked into his group’s fourth fish of the day, what he thought was another smallmouth bass, he told partners “It’s a good one.”

Boy, was it ever.

Seconds later he revised that impression.

“Oh, it’s not a smallie,” the angler from Portage, Mich., told The Detroit Free Press.

Seeberger, along with brother Chuck and friend Jason Orbeck, fought the giant muskellunge for the next two hours during which they searched on smart phones for the state record, marked their boat for measuring, broke two nets and finally had to lasso the muskie to...

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