Seems to be the MO of those who do wrong and get caught....had he not been caught I don't think he really would have cared.
http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/ac...-confrontation
The man caught killing and discarding a muskie in an online video – which had snagged more than 54,000 views by Wednesday afternoon – is fishing for forgiveness.
Eddie Parent said Wednesday he’s sorry for what he did to the fish, and the vitriolic confrontation that followed when two other anglers confronted him.
“I don’t know, I just blew up,” said Parent, 52. “I don’t want this to look like I’m looking for some kind of a way out because I’m not. I deserve to be punished. It was the wrong thing to do because I made no effort to put that fish back in the water so that it would live. I didn’t think it was going to live anyway, but that makes no excuse for the way I handled putting the fish back into the water.”
Conservation officer Kevin Sprague said the Ministry of Natural Resources is still investigating and charges are possible, but he couldn’t provide any other details.
“We thank the public for their assistance in this case and their concern for our natural resources,” said Sprague.
Eddie Parent talks about size of lures he uses to catch muskie during a visit to The Windsor Star Wednesday September 10, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Parent was fishing Sept. 3 on the Detroit River near where it meets Lake St. Clair. He was out for pickerel, but reeled in a muskie.
Two other men who were fishing nearby captured Parent on video. Mike Cowley and Dane Alexander said they saw Parent beating the fishing to death and throwing it in the water. In the video, which they posted to YouTube, the sound of Parent bonking the fish against the side of the boat is audible before he throws it back in the water.
Cowley and Alexander boated over to Parent and questioned what he’d done. The interaction deteriorated into an obscenity-laced confrontation.
After a story appeared in the Star on Wednesday, Parent reached out to the newspaper to offer his mea culpa.
Parent said he said he didn’t “pummel” the fish like others have suggested.
“The pummeling makes me look like I was out to just go catch a muskie and kill it,” said Parent. “That’s not what happened.”
Parent said the muskie swallowed his jig. When he was taking the hook out, he said it caught his hand.
“I swung and hit the side of the boat with it,” said Parent. “As soon as it was in the water, I went ‘aw, sorry.’ They had it on video and it made me look bad. It was bad, I shouldn’t have done it. But it was more of a reaction than anything.”
He claims this was the first time he killed a muskie and threw it back.
“No I don’t kill them,” he said. “We, 99.99 per cent of the time, release them. I’ve never done that before. Obviously I’m never going to do it again.”
Parent said he doesn’t know why he did it this time.
“No idea,” he said. “This fish was going to die anyway because the gills were ripped. Again, no excuse. There’s absolutely no excuse for what happened.”
He said he also doesn’t have an excuse for his reaction to the two guys shooting the video, even though they were “shooting their mouth off.”
“I don’t know why I said the things that I did,” said Parent. “To those two fishermen, and to all other fishermen and my friends, I really am sorry. It’s something that never happened before and it definitely will not happen again. Sincerely, from inside of me and my heart, I am sorry that this happened. I apologize to everybody that I offended.”
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Musky killer says sorry...
What I would pay for one 38 inch muskie in a perch lake I know about. It would be 60 inches fast. 
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