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This is my friend Chris. Introduced him to the canal this summer. This was his third trip, landed this one on a rigged eel about an hour after arriving this past weekend. . Released apparently unharmed evidenced by the vigorous thrash of the tail on her way back. Measured exactly 50" tip to tail (un-squeezed). It didn't occur to measure girth until she was released, but likely weighed somewhere in the 40 lb range. No giant belly, but well proportioned. Fish another 19 or so hours with just a few small bass and a toothed bastage, but this one made it worth the drive and sleeplessness.

Z - congrats to the Friend :btu:

Great fish and great job by your friend on the release of that beauty!

nice catch and release

Excellent!

Well done!

Look at the shoulders on that fish. must have been a great fight.

Impressive fish. Thanks for letting it go.

nice fish

We have discussed several times in the past that neither of us had the need to keep a big fish if it wasn't hurt. There were a few minutes where I couldn't find the camera and he was holding the fish in the water reviving it. If I hadn't found it, he would of had a bit of decision on his hands, but I still think he would have released it. Definitely some fretting on his part while I looked in my bags for the camera. "Dude, we might have to eat this thing" :devil2:.

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Atta Boy!

Nice! good thing the racoon didn't get these rigged eels.

truer word have never been spoken :biglaugh:

Nice fish, the second pic is great.

thats a nice fish for shure!

WELL DONE, lads!!!
thanks for tha pone!
:claps: :claps: :claps: :claps: :claps:

and the smiles on his face tell the whole story!
glad you found yer camera; but we would've believed YOU!
:bl: :bl: :bl: :bl:

awesome!!

Love that smile! Nice fish! Not a better feeling in the world than getting a beauty to the beach like that, and then watching her swim away! NICE JOB!!

Dave

Congrats to your friend on a beautiful fish!

Excellent Smithers....Excellent...

Nice job... The smile say's it all! :)

C&R Pone
 

So much better than corpse shots.

Congrats, and thanks as Numbskull said. We need them big girls.

very nice!