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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:40:26 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


I managed to land it with the Rebel halfway in his mouth. Not knowing
anything about blues, I reached down to get the lure out and the fish
clamped his jaws on it shattering it into pieces. That's how I learned
about blues.

You're lucky. That "it" could have been one or more of your fingers. ;-
( Still, on fresh water gear, that must have been one hell of a fight.

It was. It wasn't huge .... I think I remember measuring it at 28" long,
but it took me about half an hour to get it in.
I actually got two of them that day. I took them back to our apartment, all
proud of myself, and Mrs.E. almost fainted.

"Not to worry", I told her, then made a mess out of the kitchen trying to
clean and fillet the stupid things. I really had no idea what I was doing.
Someone told me to let the fillet soak overnight in the fridge in a pan of
water with salt, so I did. I didn't know what to do with the heads, so I
stuffed them into the garbage disposal and damn near burned the motor out.
Even after 20 minutes of grinding away, I'd turn it off, pull off the rubber
stopper, look inside and see an eyeball staring back at me.

It wasn't worth the effort.

Eisboch