We were trolling in about 20 feet of water, along a steep ledge drop when something hit my custom pink/purple/black 300 Bandit on a 14 foot pole. I got the pole out of the holder and could tell it was BIG. I started reeling it and all of a sudden the line went slack. I thought I had broken off so I started reeling it up when we realized this fish was headed the same direction we were but twice as fast as the 1.8mph we were running. It actually passed us and headed south east up the ledge as we were headed south. All of a sudden it turned, headed back north down the ledge and started under all 4 of Dean's lines on the rear. Between the 2 of us, we managed to pass the rod, with fish attached and ripping line off the drag, under all 4 of his rods. I have no idea how many yards the fish pulled off until all of a sudden the hooks pulled loose. The last we saw of whatever it was (we never saw it), it was headed northwest while we continued south at 1.8mph. It felt like I had hooked a jet-ski.

Oh well, it was probably for the best anyway. My net man would have likely knocked it off with the net had I got it to the boat like he did a 5 pound green carp I had right to the transom.

We had a good time for a couple of old, overweight crappie fishermen on a Sunday afternoon on Ky Lake.