I went out fishing with my fiance's uncle and we started off casting some submerged weed beds trying to stir up some muskie. We boated a couple nice northern and a bunch of not so nice ones and no muskie, but thats life.

After we were done hunting big game we moved over to a massive lily pad/scum patch to throw some frogs and see what we could find.

We fished there for about 2 hours and caught a bunch of dinks, but nothing of any size. Then the phone call came and it was time to go home, so next fish was declared and we prepared for our last couple casts.

After getting a few taps on my Bull Frog Sizmic Toad I managed to go barbs deep into this nice slap of a fish:

Sadly I forgot my scale at home so we had to guess, we decided....around 4 lbs, giver'take

That is a very nice fish. I love catching a great fish right before I have to leave.

        If that fish is as thick as it looks in the pic, I would have to say it's 4.5-5. that thing looks like a fatty.

WTG Josh and that is definitely great lookin froggin water too...

Big O

Oh it was thick alright, I guess for all future tellings of the story the weight has now been upgraded to 5 lbs ;D

Heres another pic of it, it shows the girth a little bit better and also shows how nice the coloring was. All the fish we pulled up had beautiful bright greens and yellows in them. Even th northern were fat and had vibrant colors.

We did a very quick length measurement and it came out to be around 19 inches

Heres a snap of one of the two nice northern we caught. This one was the smaller of the two (about 28 inches), the larger one did not want to  stick around to be measured or photographed as he jumped out of the boat before we could get to it.

You know it was 19 inches long and you can estimate it's grith so....

Length x Length x Grith = Pounds

               1200

So give it a try and let us know what you get.  

Great story.  How many times do you get ready to leave a spot or make "one more cast" and catch a nice bass?

In fact, I now have a habit of saying, "there are no fish here" with the intent on catching one on the next cast.