Nice!!! What did it weigh?

My son Ryno and I were bass fishing last summer. An impromptu father son tournament as he had issued a challenge of taking the old man to the woodshed. About an hour in he surrendered and laid down his weapon. Feeling a little bad, but wanting to keep him from being a quitter I told him to not give up, all he needed was two 8 pounders to be back in it. He picked the Lews combo back up I had bought him for his 16th birthday and pitched a shakey head with a junebug 10x trick worm up against the bank. started bringing it out to deeper water and then i felt him load up and set the hook. about 4 minutes and 30 or 40 yards down the levee later I netted a tail hooked, (still don't know how) 17lb catfish! He was pumped and learned a great lesson about not giving up! Pic doesn't really do it justice but for reference Ryno is 6'1" 280lbs...

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