WRMA - Mission Statement

The WRMA is dedicated toward using modern scientific methods and technology to:

(1) resolve the current controversy surrounding the legitimacy of the currently accepted record muskellunge; (2) establish proper controls and record keeping agencies to ensure the legitimacy of all future record muskellunge; (3) library and disseminate scientific data regarding world record muskellunge catches; (4) promote and maintain trophy muskellunge fisheries throughout the species’ native range by supporting ongoing scientific efforts to determine optimal species reintroduction strategies; (5) protect vital spawning and nursery habit to ensure integrity of designated trophy waters.

The record debate has served to divide our muskie hunting community along severalwell-known, well-defined and equally well-entrenched lines of argument for sometime now. In 2003 a fledgling group of concerned sportsman envisioned that thecreation of a non-partisan group working to objectively authenticate these recordswould do much to heal the bitterness over this issue that has so long divided ourmuskie hunting community.

To this end, the World Record Musky Alliance (WRMA) was formed as a non-profitgroup in an attempt to authenticate the brass ring of our sport. Our endeavor will beto retain highly qualified, impartial sources to analyze and verify, where possible, allevidence related to these record catches. This will include both research into thecircumstances surrounding the catches and professional evaluation of available photos.

If our conclusions give rise to evidence different than the accepted current records,these will be submitted to the IGFA and/or NFWFHF for their review andconsideration in modifying the records in the same manner as was followed in theearly 1990’s. We are just as open to the possibility that when this work is complete,everything may sit just as it is now in the record books. Either way, we feel it is ofcritical importance that all records reviewed be subjected to reasonable scrutiny andconsistent standards of measure. Our hope is that this effort will provide moreconsensuses in the recognized records, and the long running record debate will bereasonable resolved either way.