Bite

[Devils Horse]

i caught a big striper on a jerkbait.
took me 15 minutes to land him on 20lb line.
water was real cold so he didn't move real fast but just pulled hard.
his tail was probably 12" wide.
will his tail on the boat deck, he came up past my belly and i'm 6'3".
almost couldn't get him in the boat since i was by myself.
had to use both hands.
i'm sure he was over 50lbs but i didn't want to fool with him since i was in a tournament.
probably was lake record.
i let him go but we usually cut the gills out of em since they eat all the panfish i like to eat.
he was in 3 feet of water.

One I caught was tiny compared to that, but he did try to pull me outta the boat. Those stripers are game.

Tail hooked a 50lb carp last year on a #7 shadrap with 10lb string, and that was a pretty fun 20 minutes. Actually got it in the boat for a picture with the help of my fishing bud. Was about long as me, and I'm 6'1". Caught a 9lb largemouth that day on an A-rig, too. We slayed the bass...was a day for the books.

[ZoraSpook]

Best bite I ever got was on the Ohio River in the fog at 3:am when one of my farthest out Offshore planar board got hit and hung up on the stern of a push boat.

I knew my landing net was not up to that load so I cut it loose after a good 20 minute run.

By the way, did you know push boats will hit chicken livers? News to me, whoooda thunk it.