I caught my biggest sunfish ever, on Lake Tetonka yesterday (part of the Cannon River chain). I wanted it to live so I slid it into my minnow bucket and slow trolled it back to Best Point Resort…. where I had my wife take the pictures on the dock. From the tip of my middle finger to the four fingers past my wrist, measured a total of 11 inches! What a fish. And the pictures would finish the story… so after several snap shots, I released it.
About ten seconds after the fish slid into the water, my wife says, “Honey you are going to kill me!”
“And why would I do that, dear?”, I asked.
“Because there is not any film in the camera!”, she says.
“And why is that!”, I screamed.
“Because you didn’t put a new roll in after you shot the last pictures of that new boat decal you got”, she says, “I allways put in a new roll when I am done with one”.
I had to do the real slow reaction “shrug” and say, ” Well, there has to be one bigger than that one out there!”
My head shook side to side, for some time….
I took this bruser on a Fire Willospoon and a piece of crawler, in 6 feet of water, just West of the last shallow reef marker on the edge of the weedline. Returned to catch seven more big ones, two were three fingers past my wrist, but none as big as the one that got away, that I released!
Hawger
