41 years, 5 months and 19 days

  • Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    June 5, 2016 at 2:13 pm #1622957

    It was a glorious Friday this June 3rd 2016. I was surrounded by good friends and family when i set the hook in to this back breaking lard filled toad. It took a short 41 years, 5 months and 19 days to land a trophy 30″ walleye (jigging no less). This one stretched the tape to 31 and 1/4.

    To aid in bringing this big gal in, I solicited the help of my 8 year old fishing partner Cavin and long time buddy from high school Brian Hanke. Together, we slipped the net under her and hoisted the trophy to celebratory cheers and bellowing! I can’t think of a better way to achieve a lifetime fishing milestone!

    Cheers fellow anglers… i’ve arrived!

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    Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    June 5, 2016 at 2:16 pm #1622959

    another pic

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    Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    June 5, 2016 at 2:21 pm #1622961

    tape pic… whooa!!!!

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    Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    June 5, 2016 at 2:28 pm #1622963

    Forgot to mention – Ma-goose walleye came as a courtesy of none other than the trophy walleye factory, Onaman Lake. That dang water body never ceases to amaze!!!

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    Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    June 5, 2016 at 2:32 pm #1622965

    Father and son celebrate

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    Twins Guy
    NULL
    Posts: 114
    June 5, 2016 at 3:47 pm #1622969

    love that first torpedo angle picture with you and your son in the background handling another nice fish! congrats!

    rwilliam
    St.Paul, Mn
    Posts: 291
    June 5, 2016 at 4:08 pm #1622971

    Nice fish, congrats. I’ll bet the long wait time to catch that big one was worth it.

    basseyes
    Posts: 2575
    June 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm #1622975

    Holy WOW! What a BEAST!

    Congrats and where does a guy go from that?

    Chad Thompson
    2 hours from Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Posts: 325
    June 5, 2016 at 5:57 pm #1622992

    Onaman Lake in NW Ontario

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    BigWerm
    SW Metro
    Posts: 11933
    June 6, 2016 at 9:26 am #1623115

    Congrats on the hog!!! Sweet pics too.

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    June 6, 2016 at 4:46 pm #1623304

    Awesome fish, hope to join you some day!

    tomr
    cottage grove, mn
    Posts: 1291
    June 6, 2016 at 6:24 pm #1623323

    Congrats what a beast! bow

    Curryale
    Posts: 2
    June 13, 2016 at 5:11 pm #1624329

    Great Lake. We fished there as a group of 6 last year for a week. Our largest was 30 inches and we had 45 walleye over 25 inches with 6 – 28 inches or over.

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