Nice muskie! I don't doubt he caught a 50 pound muskie (it was confirmed by the DNR) and I hope I am wrong but I think that the first two pics were a little bit altered. I have edited photos before and those first two photos scream photoshop. The lighting doesn't match up with the fish and the fish looks sjerper than he does.? That guy looks like he has spent some time at the gym but I think he would need more then fingertips to hold that fish up in the second pic. Either way congrats to him for setting a state record and possibly a line class record.