Brooke Butler

Yes, everyone believed me, as they were more interested intelling me how ugly it was and saying OMG it is huge! I got a 5X7 pic developed before we came home. My story: we were trolling it was about 1pm and sice 6am all we had was 1 hit, and no hook up. Anyways, I am usually the driver and hubby tends the lines and if trolling we take turns if we get a hit. So the weeds were bad this day, and I volunteered to clean poles for awhile. I picked up one and it was covered so I started banging it in the water to get the weeds off the pole before I started reeling-he is saying take it easy on my poles, so then I started just swishing it back and forth in the warter to get the rest of the weeds off. Then I started reeling, maybe 3 or 4 turns and I felt something grab and started screaming we got a fish!!!! I told him it felt heavy and I just reeled and reeled till it was at the boat, I was not letting off.. I have to say this was truly one of the most exciting days of my life! Zach are you the one getting married, or theone going back to Chautauqua? Please tell me the young ladies name and the other guy at the table. Thank you for letting me share my fish and my story!

49" On Opening Day at Chautauqua Lake, this big Girl won me 2nd place in Capt Larry's tournament! All thanks to Hubby for taking me out!