I definitely wouldn't feel good about it but I think I would have to bonk it
20 plus years ago, there was a tackle store in Guelph (not Ray's Hook, Line, Sinker) on Edinborough near the Beer Store. The brothers who owned it like to fish for muskie. I remember the guy telling me in detail, how he could retire off the world record muskie. Deals with tackle companies whose equipment he allegedly used to catch the fish, trade shows, even selling individual scales off the fish to collectors (I think illegal now).
It's sad but true, without the actual specimen, it's just a fish story
that's one of the reasons I buy a sportsman licence