Sunday, August 7, 2011

1989 August 20 - Esther's Trophy Smallmouth, Maine

It was a calm gray drizzly day and Frank and I had our rain suits on.  We were picking along the shore when I hooked into something really big.  I had never felt such a fight before and was afraid I would lose it.  But I brought it to the surface and Frank landed it for me and then I snapped this photo.  We couldn't believe it, we had never seen such a large smallmouth bass.  Not wanting to harm it, we quickly put it back in the water, so I didn't even get a picture of me holding this prize fish!  I actually thought they were all this large in Maine, but I soon found out they are not all this large and in fact, it took me 21 years to beat the size of this smallmouth bass.
Esther's 4 lb Smallmouth Bass

Esther

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