breachless
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I had it. I had the largest bass I have ever seen on Saturday morning out on Cross Lake... Was out frogging with my pops and caught quite a few decent fish, but this one... It really was the biggest bass I have ever seen in person. Got it up alongside the boat and had it all tired out. My heart was beating like CRAZY: this was the fish of a lifetime! Then I reach over the side of the boat to lip the thing, and it gets that second wind and took one last run, and can you believe it? He actually managed to snap my 30 lb braided line. I was in shock.
It's all I have thought about. What if he dies with that **** frog in his mouth? I would have removed the frog and just took a picture and put him back, but man... And the funny thing is my dad offered to land him with the net. I have never used a net to land a bass (but I had never had a fish on like this before) but for some reason I said no. 10 seconds later it was gone.
So we left the lake and hiked down to the river and fished smallies for the afternoon. Nice change of pace. All in all, it was a great fishing day: I caught a TON of bass (both Large and Smallmouth) but it was all just kind of nothing compared to fighting that monster of a fish... I was sad that he got away, but it was extremely exciting: like I said, I have never seen a bass that big before in Minnesota. At least I got to look at her up close and even got to touch her before she gave me the middle finger and took off (and it was nice that my dad and my brother in law were there as witnesses to the size of this thing...)
Anyway, I will be there working that shoreline every Saturday and Sunday for the rest of the summer in hopes of hooking it again. I am convinced this was the same fish that got away the first time I fished that spot in the spring, and I caught it on the very same frog.
It's all I have thought about. What if he dies with that **** frog in his mouth? I would have removed the frog and just took a picture and put him back, but man... And the funny thing is my dad offered to land him with the net. I have never used a net to land a bass (but I had never had a fish on like this before) but for some reason I said no. 10 seconds later it was gone.
So we left the lake and hiked down to the river and fished smallies for the afternoon. Nice change of pace. All in all, it was a great fishing day: I caught a TON of bass (both Large and Smallmouth) but it was all just kind of nothing compared to fighting that monster of a fish... I was sad that he got away, but it was extremely exciting: like I said, I have never seen a bass that big before in Minnesota. At least I got to look at her up close and even got to touch her before she gave me the middle finger and took off (and it was nice that my dad and my brother in law were there as witnesses to the size of this thing...)
Anyway, I will be there working that shoreline every Saturday and Sunday for the rest of the summer in hopes of hooking it again. I am convinced this was the same fish that got away the first time I fished that spot in the spring, and I caught it on the very same frog.