Did a 30 minute quickie late this afternoon in the pond. Went through a few lures and no bites. Then put on a silver rattletrap and had a 7# 14 oz (digital scale) 26" CC nail it soon thereafter. Go figure, trying to catch LMB, HSB, & WE and end up with a big CC. Was a thrilling fight to say the least. Made several strong deep runs and surfaced once. Until it surfaced, I didn't know what I had on, but new it had size. Didn't do the CC roll until it got close to the bank. Bogo gripped that big boy and brought him home. Now he rests in my freezer until the next fish fry.
Just another example of large CC being a predator. He had quite the belly on him, likely courtesy of my TH feeder going off 6 times a day. Regardless, he still wanted some "live" food and fell victim to my rattletrap.
