Mudshark made it to Madtown this evening for a night of chasing cats (when he wasn’t needing to go potty). The night started out slow and I was about to call it due to zero bites. Then at 10:30 I had a lazy bite which didn’t feel very big until it saw the boat and took off like a shot and took a good long time to get it back. Kind of a poor picture but 31×16 is still a hog by most standards. Rebaited and got back out quickly. Jeff was pulling in one of his lines which was tangled and I got another bite. I set hook and this time I knew it was a good fish. The big girl decided to head for the anchor rope and managed to foul 5 of our 6 lines in the worse tangle I’ve seen in my boat ever. She came to the net in a big tangle of power pro and measured out at 33 x 19. So I dropped it in the livewell and began to cut and retie. We had the third retied and back in and Jeff was giving me some light when I saw he had a bobber down. He set hook and the fish took drag and kept on rolling. I thought he might lose it. He couldn’t stop it or turn it and had 5 or 6 big drag screaming runs but he played it well and we finally got it in taped out a 34×19 estimate 18lbs and new PB for mudshark. 3 bites 3 fish all over 30 inches. Been a long time since I had two fish over 33 inches in the well at once. Lets do it again soon. After getting shut down last week due to high winds and no fish where I could fish I feel like July is going to be awesome here. Lake Mendota is loaded with big cats.
PS thanks for the smoked Tullibee.
