Thought I would get you guys worked up!

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Slip, a forty on a jig in the Canal is no small feat. You are in a class apart with that one. Nice Fish.

I have two fish over forty from the canal. One 45 pounder on a yellow Gibbs 3-1/2 oz. Polaris at pole 195 Cape side in July. The other was a anniversary present on the evening of my anniversary of being married, September 16th. The fish was caught at the mud flats on a skinny little eel that I was goofing with while waiting for the west tide to slow down. I was fishing with Dave Kosewski, Stan Koslowski ( aka Staash) and that fish also weighed forty five pounds.

Two years later within two weeks Dave "Stifftip" LaPorte landed the 55 pounder at 155 in early September 89 first and two weeks to the day fishing with me on a west tide at 10:00PM at the Mud Flats landed a 45 pounder on an eel. Thank God on my first cast after he landed that one I got a 30 lb. fish or I would never have heard the end of it.

Somewhere I have an old clipping from the Falmouth Enterprise with a picture and story of a guy and the largest bass caught in the canal on a plug in ther late fifties. It was 63 pounds. Taken at pole 155 on a Gibbs Blue/white 4 0z. Castalure popper.

The largest bass that I know of from the canal was 68 pounds and the angler wants to remane nameless. I t was caught on an eel in front of the control building at the Army Corps HQ. It was weighed and then I believe he sold it. I watched him and another guy night after night bailing bass from the corner of that lot because they alone had permission to fish there. While across the way on the Mudflats we went fishless. He is a friend of Dave LaPortes.