Anyone else battle with these fish?

[D.Cox]

Got out with my 6 year old son for 3 hours on a East Tennessee Lake to try out some new spoons that we are selling now and could only find 1 16 inch small mouth but caught 2 good hybrids. These things pull like a freight train.

   Pictures and netting by my son, I asked if he got us in the picture and he said yes. When we looked at them at home and I asked what happened. His reply, I got the fish.

Hope this great fall weather holds for awhile.

[simplejoe]

WOW   look at the belly on that one. Congrats nice find.

[Olebiker]

In the last few years of my Dad's life he really got into catching schooling hybrids on Taylorsville Lake in Kentucky. I never had the chance to fish for them with him, but last weekend I got into them where Dead Lakes runs into the Chipola River. I have to believe Dad was watching down and saying, "Well, do you see now why I liked them so much?"

[Uncle Leo]

Oh yes we have a Power Plant lake here with big stripers. They run had as close to a Tuna as we can expect in the Midwest. I caught one on light spinning tackle with 6 lb line. This Striper went 16 lbs, to say the least he about spooled me 6 times before I was able to land it. This as some bad mothers. ;D

[chubaka]

Wow those are really big, could never imagine catching them that size.

[aarogb]

Wow those almost look like really big Crappie!!

Good fish though.

[BassDeaton01]

I've heard those things fight really hard! Nice fish and congrats!