WHYYYY!?

[burce]

Went out on the lake today (last night vacationing in the adirondacks) to fish for some smallies using my new *** Trick Sticks I got the other day. I've caught about 10, 10-12" smallies over the last few days and today I decided to use the smaller, 4" trick stick since the bass were pretty small.

Well, after about an hour of fishing I had caught one 12" smallie and two 8-9 inchers. THEN I got a big bite and pulled in a smallie that was seriously 4.5-5lbs. The line snapped (bad knot? don't know) once I got him in the canoe and as I held him up some other canoers went by and were like "omg look look thats huge!" etc etc

The bass flops around in the canoe and makes his way to the back, and I'm freaking out thinking hes gonna flop out into the water...so I use an ore and get him closer and pick him up and man was this fish beautiful . I grab my phone to snap a pic and guess what....MY PHONE IS DEAD!!!!!

WHYWHYWHY did it have to die!?! I'm probably never going to catch a smallie that big, the girl was a monster!!

to look at it a better way, the canoers that went by had dropped their camera in the water, so at least I didn't do that...

I wish I had a picture :(

[fishinfewl]

Ouch.  At least you have your momory.

[Dwight Hottle]

That does hurt. Catch a bigger one & the hurt goes away.

[K_Mac]

The advantage of having no scaled weight, measurements, or pictures is that this fish can grow to epic proportions as time goes by, without any evidence to ruin a good story.

Keep up the good work. There are more where that came from. 8-)