My wife is my fishing partner and better half, but she has hand, arm strength issues and can only fish for short periods of time, and only with a lite rod and Zebco spin cast reel.

 

However this doesn't keep her from showing me up on a regular basis.

 

Yesterday was a perfect example. We were fishing for bass in shallow weedy water. The bass weren't cooperating but we caught the occasional pickerel. I was doing OK with pickerel when I heard her say " Fish on ". As our usual practice she handed the rod to me to get it in. ( she doesn't have the strength to do it ). Got the fish in and darned if it wasn't the biggest, thickest, pickerel we've seen in years. 3.2 lb. 26+ inches of muscle and slime. No one will ever convince me a Zebco can't do the job.

 Here's a couple of pic's. the first one is the average I was getting, the second, I'm holding, but it's her fish.

 

Congratulations to your wife, beautiful Pickerel! Hopefully be fishing Maine again this fall.

FM

Don’t tell the wife she could’ve submitted it for an IGFA all tackle record if it wasn’t caught by by both of you.  ??.  Congrats,  that’s a tank!

62cm=24.4”

@Arcs&sparks, that's a crazy fact....I bet a lot of us have seen or even caught hammer handles longer than that....in fact, look at this "local" beast:

 

http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2015/01/07/anglers-open-the-new-year-with-two-state-fishing-records/