WLG
Well-known member
Well I am happy today. I caught the LARGEST fish I have EVER caught in my life and my good friend DRC doubled with its twin. You can see from the pics where we were fishing and all were caught on fresh skippies today. The bite was HOTTT today. We arrived at 9 am and around 10:30 my rod bent over double in the rod holder. I picked it up and immediatelly i knew i had a big fish on. I use 30 lb line so my drag was set pretty loose. I started fighting my fish and meanwhile drc reels in a 20 lber and set him free. He then got the net and came up to the front of the boat waiting for me to get this thing in...and then his rod bent over double and started just ripping off drag....while he was fighting his mine started coming up but decided it wanted to go over and say Hi to his fish. They proceeded to get wrapped around each other about 3 or 4 times. Daniel was able to get his rod under and through mine ( while it was pulling off a bunch of line) and get them untangled. All i could do was hold on to this thing. Then both fish made another run for the bottom. I dont really know how long it took but mine came back up again far enough for Daniel to see him ...and then he got excited. Thats Right HE got EXCITED!!!!! I knew I had something at this point since I have seen some of the posts of BIG fish he catches on here. He said ..Wade you have a VERY large fish on buddy and put his rod back in the rod holder and was able to get mine in the net and hand the net to me. I didnt think I was gonna be able to pull it in the boat it was SOOO heavy. I went to pop the circle hook from his mouth then I thought hmmmm this sucker could probably break my hand when I saw how large his mouth was. I could put both arms in its mouth up to almost my elbows!!!!!! Then I got him out of the net and was able to get Daniel's fish in the net and got him in. They bottomed out the 50 lb scale so we didnt get a weight but trying to give a fair guess we figured both of them to be 70,s or possibly 80 lbers. I know Daniel has caught some very large fish and he said they both were the largest he's ever had in his boat. MAN WHAT A DAY!!!!!!!. We caught around 20 fish today all were in the 15 to 25 lb range except for these 2 fatties that just made my YEAR!!! My goal was to catch a 50 lber this year and by golly I did it. AND THEN SOME!!!! Daniels goal is to get a 100 lber and I really beleive he will do it soon. Special thanks to DRC and Fishing Machine for showing me how to catch these BIG cats this year. Its so great to have this forum and have the opprotunity to meet guys like this and catch some really nice fish. thanks so much guys!!!!!!
