How Heavy was the Largest Fish You've Ever Caught?

[lonehunter]

my largest ever " hooked " was a stergon up at black lake . my dad had taken us fishing in a canoe ( i was a little nipper then ) and i was constantly casting and retriving a minnow , dad somewhat flustered at my antics put a whole bunch of the dead minnows on the hook and told me to let it sit on the bottom for a cat fish . i had a nibble and jerked on the rod , it bent over and started to pull me in , dad grabbed the rod and we started moving out into the lake . he must have batteled that thing for hours it seemed like , but he did get it to surface next to the canoe before it broke the line . it was almost as long as the boat . it took me years after that before i would go swimming again . oh yea , the rod was a zebco 202 !
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