Jon Olson, a fisherman from Kenora, Ont., has a fish tale few can top.

Olson was competing in the Kenora Bass International fishing tournament last weekend when he dipped his toes in the water before the weigh-in.

He said he felt a tug, yelled, and pulled a muskie out of the lake, its teeth clamped to his foot.

Jon Olson shows off the spot where a muskie bit his foot at a fishing tournament.

At first, Olson thought someone was literally pulling his leg.

"I thought one of the other guys was playing a joke and swam under the back of the boat and actually grabbed my foot," he said.

"But when I pulled my foot up and yelled, I (saw) it just attached."

Olson said the fish was more than a metre long and weighed about eight kilograms.

"All of a sudden something come up and grabbed my foot and I kinda just yelled and jerked my foot away," he said.

"When I pulled my foot, it pulled the muskie and pulled him out of the water by a foot and then he let go."

Olson has deep cuts on his foot and ended up placing tenth in the tournament.

But he has a great fish story to tell.