Back in the mid-70's, I was fishing some flooded woods backwater in SW Louisiana with a buddy out of a 14' flatbottom alum boat. I hooked what I thought was a monster LMB. It turned out to be a monster choupique. Don't know what he weighed, but he was much longer than the bottom of the boat was wide. My guess today 8-9lbs. I managed to get him unhooked before he started tearing through the boat. He managed to flop down in the middle of an open 2 door center opening tackle box...that's when all hell broke loose. Lures and baits with treble hooks were flying everywhere...like a hurricane in a tackle shop...we had no place to run. Just made a vain attempt to cover our eyes and faces until the rapture subsided...not long after that, the big fish flipped out of the boat back into the water and swam off with about 4-5 lures and hooks imbedded in several parts of his body...true story.
Stickem
Last edited by stickem'; 12/28/14 01:12 PM.
