0.2 lbs off Lake Record! Won Striper raffle

My brother and i took our dad out to DVL today in hopes of getting him hooked up with one of the big stripers, Had one shot but it came unbuttoned. Caught plenty of LMB and hooked into what we thought was another 5-8 lb bass and ended up being a 3.25 lb BLUEGIL!!!! Damn that thing faught hard! Biggest bluegil we have ever seen and probably ever will see. It ate a 3 1/2" fish trap and inhaled it! We decided to get it mounted since it died, Will look awsome on the wall! Also found out that i won the stiper raffle!!!! Nice basket of assorted swimmies,Z-plug,Line... ect. Awsome day on the water..

damn that thing is a pig

Dayumm! Nice..

HOLY CRAP! I've been fishing for 5 years for a toad like that! Nice job!

Congrats!

THAT is a BIG panfish!
Almost looks like some kind of Redear/Bluegill mix...... hybrid.

Either way, NICE FISH!



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Great job out there! That thing is huge!

with those spots it looks like a giant shellcracker, " redear" !!!!

exfactor respond to this one..... still a nice fish,,



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holy crap!! :EyePop::Shocked:

that thing is a BEAST!

That thing is a beast. Nice catch!

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:Not Worthy: Damn I was going to use the "Now that's a sandwich" line, but damn, that won't cut it here. Not sure if I can even come up with a good one on the fly .... 0.2 shy is definitely something to be proud of! Congrats