"rw" wrote

Julian timed the fight. It took 45 minutes to get the fish into the boat.
He didn't have a scale, but we figured it was about 80 lbs. In case you
missed the photo, here's the link again. :-)


Cool

I've honestly never understood the appeal of "the fight" in fishing when
reading such stories. Some of Zane Gray's epic struggles sounded
incredibly boring, to me.

But, then, I've never caught any really big fish, a few Stripers around 15
pounds being my best. But with those the fight seemed anti-climatic and
after the first short bit I just wanted to get back to fishing and hopefully
another "take."

Guess I'll never get it, but I AM happy you do and did G

Nice fish, rw