Set some banklines over the weekend, and was able to get the boat into places I have never been able to before the mudmotor setup. Gotta say it was satisfying once i wrangled this bad boy into the boat off the bankline.

Forgot to add, he bottomed out my 50 lb scale so I am thinking he was right at 55 or so............let him go to be caught again one day. Hard for me to keep fish that have been patrolling the waters for 20-30 years. Guess I'm a softy. We catch plenty of smaller flatheads around 5-15 lbs to keep for the fish fries.

dats a big azz goujon
nice catch, bro

dat's nice...... but ur crazy for lettin him go!!!!!!!!

I woulda knocked him off da food chain and made room for one of dem smaller one's to grow dat big. lol

Dat's da next best eatin fish to a yella fin tuna!

The smaller ones taste better IMO and we catch the 5-15 lbs all the time.........hopefully this guy will make somebody's day in the future.

I love drum..... I eat drum all da time. Red drum and da young black drum too....... prolly not da same drum u talkin about tho. lol What u callin a drum is prolly what we refer to as "Gaspergou" which is good eatin' too..... but I wouldn't put it nowhere near a goujon or YFT. lol

Anywho.... keep postin pics of dem big flatheads! U gettin me all worked up to build another shocker!!!

if u can find 1 like dis, buy it

you'll never use a hook & line ever again. lol

Got dam outlaws LOL My cousine who past away a couple years ago love to fich > Came back to the camp with about 200lbs. of 12-15 inch fish with to zebco 33 with spinner baits hanging of the tip LOL Classic

i have always heard that this worked, but never knew where to get the crank phone. thats some crazy stuff, bet its bigg trouble if johnny law catch you

Nice job!

Stumpgrinder, we cooked some 30lb black drum and I thought they were OK. I caught one over 90lbs and put it back. Dude with us said it prolly had worms as big as your thumb in the meat. We watched a dude scale one with a flat back shovel.
Nice flatheads. Kill em all. They are hell on smallmouth.

Looks like sum good eating yea!

I was coming back to the ramp from running some nets when I came across a couple fellers wading around with a little boat behind them. I stopped and asked if they were o.k. and learned they were biologist. They were pulling the boat and it had a small shocker rig in it. They said they wade up to stumps and put the shocker probs down into the water near the stump and shock up fish. They were doing a study on flatheads that day. I sure would have liked to got a better look at that shocker.
Randy

very nice cat....

we let all our big ones go.....they deserve to be caught another day for staying alive so long!!!

and for the record...them 10lbers taste ALOT better!!!