fish story (true one)

[slay emn fillet em]

There are tons of whitefish and yellow perch. My most recent discovery while jigging for perch was enormous smallmouth bass that love my little white jig! yesterday I caught two 2 pounders and 25 perch as well as about 12 whitefish. Today I rowed my boat way out on the lake to this underwater plateau. I dropped my jig off the edge slowly slowly down it went,finally bump I touched bottom and noticed the depth dropping. I knew I was right on the edge of that structure perfect! Then all of a sudden my cell rang! It was my girlfriend watching me from the cabin letting me know I forgot my stringer on the deck. Damn I had a decision to make. Either row all the way back and get the stringer or let perch flop all over the bottom of the boat Then WHAMO!! Oh my god I didnt know if my 4 lb test mono would even bring him up he was hooked but I couldnt move him. I was deep about 55 feet I kept the tip up and loosened the drag just enough to prevent a big run from snapping all hope of even getting a look at this monster it must be a bass I thought to myself.Meanwhile Im still on the phone(speaker thankfully) my hands were full .I looked behind me and there it was. My trusty landing net. Slowly slowly I started gaining ground he was moving up but not without a awesome feat of resistance. And there he was a lunker 4.5 pound smallmouth I lifted my rod up high and he slid into my net. Got him!! Well my mind was made up I was rowing back to the cabin. Not for my stringer. For my an early lunch.. I filleted him up and baked it in foil on my george foreman grill with lemon pepper onion and pineapple chunks.,Delicious!! I still have another fillet and bits-n-pieces for dinner tonight. I love this lake. It has only just begun to reveal its deepest secrets and tasty dinner guests.

[JustMark]

I've just Googled lake Samish and I must say, what a place! Not only do you have that lake, but less than half hour's drive away you have some of the best sea fishing anywhere too.

Looking forward to seeing the photos

[slay emn fillet em]

Im on my way out. The lake is calm and fishy.