Herb_b - 9/29/2011 12:48 PM

That fish bit your hand up even with the leather glove? Now that is one mean fish!
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She was mean but here's exactly how it went. Got to lake of the woods, got to camp and checked in, headed out on first spot. Half way around the first little island she came from underneath on the first turn of the eight and ate the bait. Netted then measured just like normal. Cameras out and my cousin says " You want the gloves?" I say "Nah, I'm Good" Well slid my right hand into gills and started to lift and she thrashed and tried to swallow my left hand. I pulled hand out and up and put other hand on my palm as fast as I could and my cousin goes " Man that's a good one huh?" I said "yep needs seven stitches or so". ( I'm an expert on stitches by the way) So we cleaned it up with alcohol swabs and wrapped with gauze then I put the gloves on and took the pics. We fished until dinner and then after dinner found some superglue performed a little surgery with nail clippers and sharp pocket knife to clean up the edges and glued. It busted open on every hookset the rest of the week so I would have to re-glue it but I got lucky and it never got infected. So while it was sore all week it never really hurt too bad. Healed up surprisingly well.

This year we took a stitches kit, and a couple bottles of superglue and no one in the group even got a scratch. And I wore gloves on every fish...

THA4 - 9/27/2011 9:27 PM

Here's one of my favs....

Shoot2Kill - 9/29/2011 8:07 PM



The size of head on that fish makes me believe she's 51" long. :)