Exciting finish for a couple seconds

[Oregon Native]

Fished the Thursday nighter last night and it was beautiful to say the least.  Calm water after a rain...water temps had cooled to the low 80's.  Launching was at 5:00 and there were fish chasing by the ramp so we thought ....hmmmm...lets give this five.   Well...that plan went into the dumpster....right when they surfaced I got snagged with my favorite schoolie baits and it was no more....sadness.  After the five we headed down lake and actually had our three fish limit in two hours....amazing.  (It's been very tough)  Anyway the last half hour we pull into one of our favorite spots....my partner had given me a crankbait to use.  Caught a short and thought...hmmmmm...maybe.  Then was bringing this baby over some deeper wood and the rod loads up.....OMG....this is big...possible kicker....taking line....(some of you have been here)  Net is in my partners hands....then.....the head appears....it's about a 15 to 20 pound flathead......sadness.  The good news was I get the crankbait back...only one hook was in the beast.  Oh.....we did pull off the win which was sweet with a little over six pounds for three fish.  

[bagofdonuts]

nice. i thought for sure you were gonna say 15-20 pound drum.

[Oregon Native]

Smiles....drum to me fight kind of different and so do most catfish....darn flatheads are in a league all their own!!!