Wife does it again!

[jbmaine]

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.

 

[Fishingmickey]

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

FM

[Arcs&sparks]

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”

[Choporoz]

@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/