07-05-2013, 12:57 AM
Hit Chesterfield early this morning. As we were driving through Lava my windshield wipers couldn't keep up with all the rain but the showers soon moved south. We didn't see the sun till 10:30, then it got roasting hot. The bite was on right away but the big guys were not biting. We landed over 40 in the 12-18 inch range. Around 1:30 my dad hooked into a monster. He uses a 9 foot steelhead rod with 26lb. lead line with a 12lb. leader. Not very fair you may say, but not much gets away. This fish was ripping his line out so fast and hard he couldn't get his rod out of the holder. So I stopped the boat, still couldn't get rod out of holder, finally....battle on, after 10 minutes it just popped off. I heard my dad make a whimpering noise and asked him what was that? He said that in 75 years he has never hooked a rainbow that big, once in a lifetime fish. He felt over 10lbs., never had my dad make a comment like that. Anyway he says why don't you turn around and go back through that hole again. Lightning never strikes twice right? CRACK, BOOM, WHAM, down goes his rod again, I didn't touch a biggie all day. This time I cut the motor, reeled all lines in and we landed this one proper. 5lbs. 7oz. by the scale, very respectable. No better way to spend the day than fishing with the old man! Here's a picture.
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