this thing is heavier than the 16.5lbs the crappy spring loaded fish gripper indicated. my friends 16.5 put on his grocery store scale was 18. but as far as i know, it is bigger than 16.5. but that is all i can claim due to the scale we had at the moment.
but dang..what a fight!! i light lined it with a 2500 spinning reel. it was screaming in protest, but it handled it fine. best shore fishing ever. i was in Oklahoma. casting against the wind with topwaters.
Wow that's a nice fish!

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Nice! I bet that was a fight!
Congrats on the catch there Tks for sharing the picture with us also ~shade
Congrats, nice fish!
I hope you fileted it out and made some shore line fish tacos!!
Great catch and thanks for the pic!
Quote from: apenland01 on April 26, 2023, 09:51:27 AM
I hope you fileted it out and made some shore line fish tacos!!
Great catch and thanks for the pic!
No, this one I released.