Slow morning, one solid fish, saw some wild nature
Hit the water with my buddy Joe today from 6:30-1:30. They were dead on with the forecast this time, lots of sun and strong winds. Did a number on the trolling battery, we were fighting the wind all morning. I was hoping that would help the top water bite, but it was pretty slow overall. I chucked the Slammer (no hits) , Jig (1 smaller fish) and only boated 2 on the Toad , including this chunker ...
5lb 3oz Joe ended up 8 or so, his best couple fish were 3lbers.
We did see a bit of crazy nature going on, there was a smaller goose we could see from a distance was struggling in 2-3 fow. I said lets go take a look , thinking it was caught in old line or something and i'd just cut it free. We get up to it and there's snapping turtle like 3' in diameter latched onto it's leg trying to pull it under !!!! We were amazed
The turtle let go when we got up to it, the birds one leg was all pretty f'ed up from what we could see, but it took off swimming for shore. Looked like he was in rough shape.
I thought about it after but i should taken a pic of that monster turtle.
Pretty wild stuff.
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