Nice stuff BarO. would love to see a pic of yer CNBG.
LOL....similar thing happened to me down at the ranchpond earlier this summer, was bringing in a fiesty 12" LMB on ultralight tackle (4 lb test or so). i got him to w/in about 5 feet of shore and a lunker lurched from the depths and wolfed down the 12-incher. i almost wet my pants. i played him about 5 minutes before he got the best of me beneath some submerged ponderosa pine structure.....all broke off
my wife caught a 5-7 lb range LMB on the same rod and reel earlier in the day in an area lacking bottom structure, I helped her land it.
In early October, I was talking to one of the ranchhands.....he and a buddy caught a 10 and 11 lb LMB down there....could have been what i almost had :rolleyes:
