Big Fucker.

Date: June 20, 2008
Location: The Magical Land that time forgot
Air temp: 80s
Water temp: ?
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 2 Big Fuckers

Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

Quickdraw
Coach McGuirk (non F.A.G.)

Well me and coach headed out to the magic lake around the azz crack of noon. it was just a perfect day to be outside about 80-85 degrees out. we got setup on the alpha hole and started our drift/casting for large toothy beasties. It wasn't long before we had multiple follows. the fish seemed a bit lazy though, not hyper aggressive.

A few hours later and I hooked into this big boy.
at first I didn't think he was that big, he seemed to be swimming at the boat for the beginning of the fight, he made a few strong runs and we hauled him in the boat(excellent network by coach). we did a quick measure on him and he was just over 40" and chunky. We took a few pictures and released him, he swam off really strong which is always great to see. Caught him on the eastern edge of the J-hole, near weed island on the edge of the backbone. That fish turned out to be the biggest northern caught by us so far on that lake. Also this fish qualifies for a Master Angler Certificate from the Minnesota fishing hall of fame, I'll be submitting this fish this year. Bow down to your master. Now working on a Grandmaster Flash Angler Certificate.

about a half an hour later I hooked this one. He was a scrappy little bastard, ended up measuring up at a respectable 30".


It was a good day.