When I renovated the pond and broke the retaining dam to let the fish into the larger portion of the pond there were a number of CC that continually tried to swim "upstream". Most were in the 16" range, but 4 were large enough that I couldn't get my hand around their body right behind their head to pick them up. They were two handed fish in the Fall of 2008. I think those are 4 "Shamu's" swimming around in the pond now, two tagged, two not tagged. As long as I don't see CC reproduction, I kinda like the idea of a few huge fish swimming around. I caught the last one on a floating Rapala with either 4# or 6# test line and that was a suprise! I really thought it was a good sized LMB. All the other CC gotta go, and I'm working at that (albet slowly).

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