We just took out our boat from the landing around noon to try another area of Lake Mille Lacs to hopefully get out of the wind more. We were approached by a MN DNR creel survey guy who asked us about our recent outing on the water. After some chit chatting about the lake’s SMB he then told us about a 26.5″ SMB he heard that was caught by a friends neighbor a couple years back. They were certain it was the state record but couldn’t weigh it because it was before the season opened.
As we fished the rest of the day we chuckled over this and wondered how this fish got that big?? Maybe the story was told so many times it grew a half an inch each time it was told. By the time it got to the creel survey guy everybody was convinced it was 26.5″. Or maybe the guy that originally caught it was convinced it was 26.5″ with a witness but they didn’t measure it.
Nonetheless, we had had some chuckles over this the rest of the afternoon trying the figure how that fish got so big.
