Hooked and landed a 7 lb 1 oz LM today. She ate a butch-brown rigged ROF12 hudd in about 30 feet of water off some rockpiles on a very sharp dropoff into a feeder creek channel.

 

Typical post-spawn fish; long, skinny, beat-up; and probably older than most of the swimbait/ big fish I catch.

 

Landed the fish, weighted her, and then discovered that I forgot my stringer AND my camera in my sedan. I don't usually carry the camera anyway, and travel light. Besides, the last thing I want to do when fish are biting (which is not often) is to waste time and get a good photo. Also left the phone in the car because there's no cellphone reception in most of the reservoirs I fish. Anyway, she wasn't very pretty.

 

Gear: GGR medium swimbait rod. Cardiff 401A, Berkley Big Game 25#, ROF12 hudd in cutthroat trout (it's a special color).

 

 

Your killing them.  Keep at em!  I see another "sho nuff biggun" in your near future!
 

Jeff

LOL, this is only the third 7+ I've caught this year.I'm far behind, compared to 2012...

Nice work deep.

 

You kow every year is different - at least you're getting bit.

 

Keep on them Bud.

 

A-Jay

Nice Deep!

 

We need to figure out a time to get together and fish.