02-27-2009, 10:00 AM
worked off midnights around 6 a.m. put the boat in at 7 a.m. and fished the mid lake area today...."the bet": biggest fish of the day gets free dinner on the way home..... we fished everything but a rattle bait today.... trying to find a back up plan for upcoming tourney.... we caught several fish, not many bigh ones... unfortunately i was winning the bet with a massive 2lb 12 oz ball of fire until 20 minutes before time to leave, 410 p.m.... hub cap hammers down on a 3 lb 4 oz. fish and it seems to be all but over... we decided to make another pass back through the same stretch.....(just caught 3 fish, 2 were slicks, and had another bite) made it to the end of the stretch with hub and jazzy catching one a piece...2 small keepers....then with 5 minutes till time to head in.... i picked up the ole' rattle bait and hurled it as far as i could......thats when the line went limp and the fight was on.... after a few runs at and under the boat, we finally wrestlered her in the boat... she had the entire bait in her mouth.... she weighed 6lb 08 oz.. and with just minutes left... i was back to getting free dinner from zaxby's (which they completely screwed up my order). thanks hub for supper....