Jerry wrote:

Not calling you a liar
mind you, only just as I said I suspect a fish story being spun here.
BTW, a 11.25 inch Bluegill would bust 4# test line in a heart beat.
Pound for pound they will out fight a large mouth bass any day.

Jerry

True they are fighters

False they will bust 4# line in a heart beat

That is if you have your drag set right, and they don't snag you up

My personal 4 lb test record fish is a 22 lb flat head catfish, it did
take a very long time to get a net on it,, but we did it (I had help
netting it)

I was blue gill fishing and the flat head hit a single cricket on an
number 8 long shank hook, I had a 12 foot fly weight crappie rod , and a
reel with 200 yds of 4 # test on it, I really doubt if I could have
landed it with a different rod, that limber rod took a lot of shock out
of the line

Now a real fighter is the hybrid stripe, it puts the L.M. to shame, this
spring I landed nearly a 12 lber on 6 lb test line, I was not fishing
for hybrids when this fish hit, If I had known there were any there, I
would have reached over in the truck and pulled out a much heaver rig
with 17 Lb test on it. I was fishing for little two lb spotted bass,
they are a blast on that ultra light rig, I got the shock of my life
when that striper, nearly spooled me before it ever turned

I have photo's of the fish and the little rig I caught him on




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