this is a silver caught by CravenMooreHead in Dec.

wait til he tells how he ACTUALLY caught it
Tyler

Nice teeny reach? How big was it really?

I am guessing close to 20#...but here is the story...
I hooked the fish and played it for nearly 10 minutes before it got into a root wad and snapped me off above the swivel. The root wad was just a few feet from the bank, but was too deep to wade out to get it, but I could see it thrashing around trying to get free. It finally broke the leader just above the hook, but it was to tired to swim away and floated right to me...Good thing I had my lucky Dolphins hat on.

Wouldn't be advertising that play too much.

Nice fish though.

Did it revive OK?????

OOPPS !! Didn't see that is was clipped.

it was a hatchery fish, but it was pretty much dead on arrival when it got free.

great story. and a nice fish. i had a big king do the same thing last year. we got out on a log jamb and netted the fish which had been drowning on the end of the line. we were using maxima fiber glow 30 lb. test. tuff stuff