Spent about 3 hours at my former boss's pond.  Windy, BP dropping, high 70s, cloudy, and one day before the full moon so I thought I had a good chance of slaying them but all I could manage was a 4 lber plus 5 or 6 1 lbers.  Still a nice way to spend a few hours as much needed rain approaches from the SW.

Dan

Fat Pig!!  Congrats man!

Jason

Great fish Dan!  Wish we were getting some rain down here...  The lake dropped another foot!

Great job as usual Lightnin!

Yo Dan,

Beautiful.

Let me guess.

C-rigged the big ika (next size up from the fat ika) in color 222

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great fish lightninrod!

Thanks again y'all.

No Avid,  I haven't thrown a C-rig in years.  I detest having to fool with all that terminal tackle :-?.  I T-rigged it using for the first time, a "bobber-stopper"(keeps the weight in place) and  a tungsten weight with a 4/0 Sugoi hook.  Tried that b/s out as I'm running low on my favorites, Gambler's Rattlin, screw-in weights.

That Ika is a "big" Ika(I don't use the "fat" ones) in their color #236:

They don't make any Ikas in color #222 or I'd have some .

Dan

Beautiful fish Dan.  Keep posting more!!

Congrats! Nice fish!

You never stop, do you.....awesome!

ps- your rod butt is bent,....I thought that was a saltwater thing,lol

nice as always!!!!

can u explain us why did u choose t-rig ika?

Great fish and I always have to gawk a little at your tackle, its amazing.  

Corey

Nice fish, great pics!

Thanks everyone for the kind words and for looking.

Russ:  It's a MB F4 ½-68XFti Jabberwock Evolution (Medium Fast, ¼-1 oz., 8-22 lbs.).  That 'bent' handle fits right against my lower arm .  

EDIT:  Sorry but the handle is 'cut' in that pic  Let's see if this works:

Thanks Corey .

Vyron:  I'd been T-rigging a GY Lizard and remembered I hadn't thrown an Ika in a long time.  I use to throw one weightless all the time and caught many doing that but the bite seemed to be on the bottom that day.  GY's Lizards are so fragile in the 'nose' area so I decided to try a thicker bait and that Big Ika fit the bill .

Dan

nice