Sounds like you finished up with some good tugs. Those Utah Lake cats over about 25 inches can be a bit stubborn to bring to the net.
I’ll bet if you had some white bass for bait you might have done better. Most of us hardcore catters have been doing much better with white bass than anything else.
Yep, if I’d had some wb I may have done better. But I didn’t and couldn’t seem to entice any to join me on the water.
** Someone once told me that IF was the biggest 1 ****syllable word in the English language.
But no matter. I had a fair day on the water and didn’t have to tote home one of those southern area skunks… 
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