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I have never heard of such a thing. I have caught my share of good ones but if I ever catch one over 26" long that weighs less than 5 lbs, I quit and take up Basketweaving. I know this guy was full of crap because he said that all of them "Were football shaped and as fat as they could be". I had a 6-4 last year at Dale that was just barely over 21" and caught several 4-5 pounders that were not even 19 inches long. A 26 3/4" football has to go over 9 EASY and pushing 10, and there has not been too many of that size EVER caught in the history ( or at least recorded).

Bob,

You are a nicer guy than me. I tried to listen to his fish tale from afar and thought I had misunderstood him on the size of the smallies. But after about 200 miles and 30 hours on the boat and catching nothing but smallies who had there eyes too close to their tails, several Ky's and only 1 good Stiper, I had enough.

His story sounded a little like this - Go get em' boys for Stripers are practically jumping in the boat. Fished the last 3 days and had my limit in less than an hour each day, which included drive time to and from the cabin plus launch and park the truck as well. Culled 20 pounders each day for they are in the jumps the size of football fields on the main lake all the way from Indian to Beaver. Boats from everywhere coming from all directions to get in on the action. Jumps so violent that several boats ran thru the school just to see if the shad would go down for our arms were so tired from catching one right after another we needed to rest a minute. It did not work for stripers were busting at the outboards as they went by. I finally got tired of catching those 25 pounders that I fired up old Bessy and headed to the ramp leaving the school of busting Stripers behind for I had to catch up on some reading back at the cabin. This story versus my actual post is what this guy sounded like to the other guys that were believing in this bull crap.

Just ask Donovan Smith director for the Fishers of Men. He weighed the fish The fish looked Like a Lake trout it was so long. But it was the 6th day of May and the fish had just spawned out.As for weight vs length you can't go by anything . I once caught a smallie that would not touch 18 inches and we weighed it on the digital tournament scales that weighed 4.52. But I also had one in the same tournament that was 19 1\2 inches long that weighed 3. 26 . So call out lenghts all you want they MEAN NOTHING when it comes to actual weight of a fish.........!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elwood,Sorry about your bad luck,even more the fish didnt cooperate.
I'm headed down in the morning and try my hand at it.Thanks for the update.I'll let you know how it turned out when I get back.
A few of the other guys are already down there and are expriencing about what you did except for the nice spots.They're only getting small ones.Glad thet did'nt see your post.
Hope things go better your next time out.

Good luck Hoodaddy, from what I saw in order the guides and others were using downriggers the most, beached and fishing bottom second and pulling boards third. Hope you catch several including the ones that I did not.