what a giant, NOEL!!!!!!!! Nice fish man!
Thanks Lance! I was shaking so bad at the end of the fight it wasn't funny. Not sure if my arm was tired, was excited, extremely cold, or if I was nervous about losing the fish at the small hole. The fight lasted well over a half hour. It was quite chilly that day and I had serious icing problems in my guides, to the extent line was not moving through them very well at all. Hard to fight a fish like that and get those guides in my mouth to thaw them out, but apparently it can be done. lol