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Tip-up tiger

By W.H. "Chip" Gross
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, February 19, 2009

"Hey, Honey, look what I got you for Valentine's Day!" Tom Boise's wife must be one understanding woman, because what he came home with on the afternoon of Saturday February 14th was not a dozen roses and a box of chocolates, but rather a potential new world-record tiger muskie. The big fish officially weighed 27 pounds, 5 ounces, measuring 45.5 inches in length and 22.5 inches in girth. Caught on an ice fishing tip-up from Otisco Lake in central New York, the fish was so large it was hauled ...

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