Big fish - Little Line - Great Fun!

[TimL]

Well, we had a good day out last Saturday.

Caught plenty of crappies, we brought home 14 of them, and put the rest back. It was real late when we got done, and I didn't want to clean any more than I had to. 14 was really too many at that point.



My wife got a 14.25 inch one, and I got a 15 incher. They were real nice and fat.




The next fish really took us by surprise. We were drifting once we were out of the main wind, in the channel, and trolling minnows, and this monster latched onto my wife's pole and about took it away. She fought it for a while, and thought she would break the line and handed the pole to me to land the fish. I fought it for a few more minutes, thinking it was a tree limb, then it fought back... finally.

We only had a small crappie net on the boat, and it didn't fit. Just the front 1/3rd of it. It was as hard to get into the boat as it was to land this nearly 16 pound fish on that 6 lb line. We finally manged to pull it into the boat and as it hit the floor, and I let the tension off the line, the line gave way at the hook.

Check it out!!



Now that was fun..

Tim L