fishing buddies

[daymere]

it was a saturday morning in tennesse and the water was perfect.i was out on the lake in a 12 ft jon boat with my freind.we were fishing all day and catching a few ,the shinners we got at the bait shop were very large all most 3 inches long when i pulledout a shinners that was 4 inchs long and hooked it up for my buddy when he cast it out the float was really moveing around and bobing up and down,i mad a joke that it was a hurcles minnow and we had a good laugh ,then all of a sudden something hit the minnowand hit it hard. the boat stated to turn around i was in amazement of how strong the fish was as ut was pulling the boat around the point of the river bed we were in this lasted about 9 minutes then broke the line as it came to the surface it was a 6&half foot gar biggest fish i have evr had on my linne before .we sat in the bot for 10 min not saying anything .no one would beleave we had caught a fish of a life time and we laughed at each other because we lost it.
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