06-09-2015, 11:52 PM
Went up to Pine View today to escape the Willard bugs, but found irritations there as well! I started throwing a broken back Shad Rap in perch color and on the tenth cast or so I hooked up with a dandy, when he came by the boat it was the longest smallie I ever seen, over three feet and heading for Browning point or somewhere. What ensued was an epic battle, for maybe thirty seconds. The stinking thing took my Rapala and most of my 6lb. line, and left me wondering what happened. I did manage to catch 2 smallies that were small, and a grundle of crappie in the 8 to 9 in. size. I did catch 2 that went 11 in. but that was it. The power squadron were out , thought I could avoid them on Tues. but not to be.
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