My Daughter hooked it trolling, She reeled it right up to about 5 feet from the boat, then the twins saw the fish and she handed me the rod and said too big. The fish turns 180 degrees and swims towards the rear of the boat as she hands me the rod. It now realizes it's hooked and turns on the jets. I just hit the button and let it go until it slowed down about 30 yards away. Then I tried fiddling with the drag on the $14 outfit and found that there is none. So when it ran I hit the button and used my fingers as a drag. The last ten minutes were on about 8 feet of line. It was a biotch getting it in the boat. Too heavy when I tried with just the lip, Then I got the gill plate and bingo. The Carp that shadowed this one for most of the fight was the same size. Very cool day. I fought it for 40 minutes, Hooked in the upper lip, it took an orange and pink 1/32 oz. Crappie jig. I think its around 30pounds, it pinned a 25lb. spring scale. 4 and a half foot light action casting rod, a mini spin spincasting reel and 4# line!
Towed us around the pond and we had to chase it down twice with the motor to unwrap the line from around stumps!

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Wow Frank, What a fish, The twins are growing my god beautiful. It's great fishing with them right.

Great stuff Frank. Priceless.

That's awesome, I love the "to big part" and she handed you the pole. That had me dying. Great catch.