steps on how to land a realy big fish

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hey dave, thanks fer your hep!! haha what a time tryin to git this thing situated. haha, anyways don,t think our ice is gonna last long, it,s rainin again today. it,s gonna be bad ice again this year i think. especially the way this years startin out. back and forth,again cold then warm. thats dangerous and i,m not goin on it. not worth it to me. too bad, cause i use to love goin and gittin the little smelt over to echo lake in plymouth. vt. bout 20 miles away from us. but they are so sweet and taste alot sweeter than even my brookies. but my brookies still come first! haha, there about 6-8 inches long got pink on their sides. and my lord the taste!!! we use to catch 3 at a time. cause that the way you can sit up your line. i used the size 8 hook like i do fer my brookies and a little minner and boy would they hit!! and even at times we,d git some goooood rainbows on em. cause they follow the smelt. i,ve pulled out a 25 inch rainbow,trout but had to make the hole bigger before i could pull him out. lotta hollerin goin on, haha especialy when your usin a 4lb test on em. haha we had a good ice shanty with a picture winder in it. aha and had the reels set up on a 2x4 a pice off the old ice set up ya set out on the ice, the alunimun straight piece, and stick it out over the hole, and wiated fer it to move and you,d use your finger go under the line and pull up. we had em. 3 at a time. haha had hotdogs on the kerosene stove fried the fish later, make a tader salad, tader chips, hot cholate beer haha and spend the nite cause we had bunks that folded down, sleepuin bags the works, just like home. haha even had the porta potty. hahamy son was only 7 then. haha did it fer years. miss it. it just hasn,t over the years had good ice like we did back then,. ya know. i guess i,m skiddish of it. when it don,t stay cold. and snow, ya know. it,s foolish toi take that chance to me. we use to have good ice in end of oct. and november! back when i was a kid, and it,d stay till april good may part of. now i don,t dare it,s fuuny how the years have changed the weather, wekk youy have a hole hearted christmas. with love surroundin ya all thru the year, take care, be safe, mare, we will, we got a houseful comin!!11 hahah hope santa don,t have a hole in his bag. hhaha
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