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On WBL last night. Wife and three kids along.

Fished for sunnies and then trolled for northerns. Picking up some small to avergare northerns trolling a #7 floating rap and a silver spoon behind the boat.

Well it is getting time to leave so I troll across a bay instead of along the contour of the lake. We are in about 27 - 30 feet of water when my rod is nearly pulled out of my hand. Big fish hits my #7 rap. Cut into N and wow this fish is big. It begins to run deep and my line is stripping of the reel fast.

I know my line test and rod are undermatched.

I have about 120 yards of 8# test & an IM8 6.5 foot rod.

I keep the rod up and throttle the boat around slowly - trying to reel up line as fast as I can.

The fish makes another run - this time heading straight west into deeper water. I watch my line strip from the reel - getting near the end - I pull the rod up - its flexed pretty good. Pop - line runs off the reel - done - actually though my rod broke. Appears ok.

When did they put chinook salmon into WBL?? ooo.gif

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LOL! Chinooks! I love it!

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CARP!

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A carp, tail hooked! Now that's some power.

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I have seen a lot of carp there this season so far. Especially near the reed areas.

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I was on WBL on wednesday for a work toury. I caught a 45" muskie and my partner had a 50+ hit a 7" bass he was reeling in, fought it for 15 min befor the fish let go and gave us a skinned alive bass.

That was no carp, you had a muskie playing with you. That lake is full of them.

joe

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I wouldn't say "full of them". The lake is "full" of 20" nothern and 10" bass. There is a small population of musky in the lake but there are better lakes in the metro if that is the target fish. That day you had with two catches of that size was a day of a lifetime. Don't expect that to happen again.

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had that happen on calhoun in the middle of the lake years ago. i did have my muskie rod and was trolling a depth raider. whatever hit me almost pulled the rod out of my hands. didnt get hooked up though.

you had a muskie on there. the fight on a muskie rod with 80 lb line is short and sweet even with large fish, but with the set up that you were describing, a big muskie would have little trouble stripping everything you had.

it had to be fun. every year i lose something large ice fishing and i always wonder what it was. makes for a great story.

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