Your big fish of the year: conditions and lure....

[eyehead]

Biggest this year was 46"

Central MN Lake, July 19, 2:00 pm

Full Moon

Partly cloudy, Strong East winds

Blue/Nickel DCG

Burnin blades over cabbage. Caught 4 fish that day, and had another halfway to the boat. It was awesome

[TrophyEyes]

First and biggest 43 1/2"

Metro lake

Super Humper

5am Early Sept., Calm

I caught it on my 5th cast and it jumped completely out of the water 4 times, which was really awesome. Unfortunately the fish died before we ever got it out of the net. It inhaled the lure and one of the trebles went through the gills and ripped all but one of the gills during the fight. We cut the hooks, and spent 45 minutes trying to revive the fish, but it only kicked once.

[10,000 Casts]

49" and thick from head to toe

The wind had been blowing into the shore all day and my buddy picked up a 50"er at 7pm on his 3rd cast with a bucktail of mine that I would never even think of throwing.

End of September, 10pm total darkness no moon. 4-6 FOW, Black Rumbler. I wasn't paying attention and she smashed it at boatside. Not much of a fight to speak of.

[guideman]

51 inches,

On a Lake in Gods country, on a spot that the tourist never fish.

Glittertail, 6ft of water, midday, bright sunshine and a south wind. Mainlake point off a small island with a lot of boulders just under the surface.

"Ace"