01-04-2020, 08:18 PM
Got up early and hit Echo again. Hoping to maybe get a walleye or a brown while it was still dark. Nope on both of those. Fishing was much slower today and I moved around trying to find an active school. Never did find that either. Had one exciting event as I was watching my lure head to the bottom I saw a mark trailing it. I stopped, jigged twice, and was hooked up. I knew I was in trouble from the get go. 4 lb test and this fish had serious shoulders. Ran my drag a couple times, got tangled in my other line for a while, but finally got to see it a couple of times. A great rainbow easily over 20 inches and thick. Finally got its head up the hole, reached down to grab it and "pop", broke the line. I am not the cussing type, but something might of slipped out...oh well. Finished with 8 keeper perch with the biggest going 11.5". Just not the numbers day today.
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