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The highlight of the trip....

Jim Hudson

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Spent a few days over in MN, fishing and meeting up with some friends... Great times for sure and all around pretty decent fishing...

But the highlight of the trip, was having my wife hook and land her personal best walleye to date... After having lost a giant just beneath the ice last year, she made it her mission to catch one of equal caliber this year.

Being mid-day, she had switched up to a perch rig, hoping to land a few jumbos... She switched to a Perch Hali chain dropper, littering the small hook with wax worms. After drilling a series of holes, we found fish to be relating to the very base of a break off a small nipple, and each hole was littered with fish. Mainly small perch... But after fishing a hole, they would dissappear, and those single tell tale red marks would show up.. and slam a bait.. Walleyes for everyone.. hehehe

Well after a half hour or so, I hear Hannah say the proverbial words.. "Fish On".. And as I look over, her rod was doubled over and the 4lb Crystal Fireline was spooling off the reel.. Never missing a beat, she kept constant pressure on the fish and let it run when need be... No need to coach her or help, she had it under control... And after a few minutes, the water started to rock in the hole, and slowly the snout of the fish slid up the hole, just barely hooked by the tiny hook on that chain dropper. Hannah's hands were shaking and she was just stuttering.. "oh my god" "oh my god" as I took the fish from the hole for her. A few photos and we said our good byes to the big ol girl... The high fives then started and Hannah was on cloud nine..

But me, I was even more happier for her and it was great to have been there to share that experience with her... Being someone who had never fished prior to meeting her, to now having caught and released some stellar fish in her short stint of being a fisherperson.. I am so proud of her, and cant wait until I see her land one even bigger!!

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