the lake was pretty calm all day, got pretty hot, surface temps up to 81 around 3 pm. had one fish roll a talonz never saw the fish, pretty sure I jerked it out of her mouth, I have a tendency to do that with the bait, not very patient! the weeds were grown up really good, which helped to point out the drop offs for me. a funny scenario while I was trolling. I decided to troll the points pretty hard in the afternoon, especially since the weedlines pointed them out amazing, came around the second point south of the launch, not howards but the other one that usually has one mean swan that rules that part of the lake! I was trolling a super believer, bought it the day before because I realized I lack baits to troll down deeper. while going around the point I got a little to close to the weeds and my transducer had come off. I put the boat in idle and set my rod down. while pulling it in my rod came flying back and hit my leg. I picked it up to set the hook just in time to see a huge fish jump up and spit my bait 3 feet in the air. Im pretty sure it was a big northern I saw the pattern on its side, but it was a big fish. I decided mostly out of anger to turn around and was going to troll a 50 yard section over and over again until it came back..lol 2 passes later my rod tightened and I saw MY FIRST HOG come to the surface. it is a whole new ball game netting a big fish by yourself, the hooks came out and it happened to be in the net, I must of done something right. Ill try and post some pics here soon but here is the link to the video I took of it, maybe you guys could tell me the length and weight of the fish, I was pretty nervous that it would die, I didn't bother measuring the fish. it kicked away really hard im sure its just fine. cant wait to get another, you guys were right, they are few and far between on thornapple but worth the time and the effort, now I need a 50'. 😀

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