We got to the pond yesterday at about 4:45PM. The threat of storms had been increasing most of the afternoon. I could see the dark clouds approaching from the East....which is unusual for here. My buddy and I agreed that when it got close enough, we'd call it a day. Well, it was on us pretty quickly.

But not quick enough to prevent this.....

It was 8lbs4oz....and will be watching him play pool from the wall from now on....

That's my buddy Mike. He's the one that's been teaching me the ropes and helping me get back into fishing. He's also the one I was with when I landed my 1-2 punches that I posted previously. I think he was getting back at me for catching mine while he didn't catch anything that day....because I didn't catch a thing yesterday. This was in a 5 acre pond in the middle of some hunting property he has. There's more fish this size in there too, which we'll be after this weekend.

wow, what a HAWG! What did you catch it on?

Outstanding fish did it go back?

Nope, it didn't go back. He's having it mounted. It was pretty spectacular. He said when we got there that he was going to have a wall-hanger in about an hour. He 1st caught a grass hopper on a stem of tall grass and put it on a bream hook.....he caught a bream about the size of the palm of his hand. He hooked the bream at the base of it's tail with a #4 hook and threw it back in, set his bait clicker, and waited. All of a sudden you could see the line moving like the bream was getting a little concerned about something. Then the bait clicker went nuts. Something BIG was on there. At 1st we thought it might have been a catfish because of the way it was "rolling". Then it came up and broke water and we both were like....Holy SH....... He fought it just a couple of minutes and finally hauled it in. It was then that the rain really started pouring and chased us back to the truck.

That is a great looking fish.  Now go back and make him mad by catching a bigger one.