10-25-2007, 05:10 PM
Funny you mention the "She yanked it so hard...". As I recall, the fish followed her spoon all the way to the rockey bank, and bit at the last second, as so many pike do. She landed the fish by screaming, jerking back on the rod and slamming the poor fish into the rocks (it seemed healthy despite this on release).
This was also over a year ago, and I thought it would be a neat present. As I thought of it after the fact, and I didn't have the fish to do a skin mount (or cast a mold), I didn't persue it to much. Though now that I'm thinking about it, I should get one made of her first smallmouth she caught this summer. 18" is pretty impressive for a first. I wonder if I can find someone to paint one up before christmas...
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This was also over a year ago, and I thought it would be a neat present. As I thought of it after the fact, and I didn't have the fish to do a skin mount (or cast a mold), I didn't persue it to much. Though now that I'm thinking about it, I should get one made of her first smallmouth she caught this summer. 18" is pretty impressive for a first. I wonder if I can find someone to paint one up before christmas...
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