OK folks, please forgive my ignorance but I'm a Pike and bass guy. We started the day by getting started 4 1/2 hrs later than planned. Somehow, the key in my boat got left on and the main engine battery was completely dead. Once we remedied that problem, we headed for the lake. That was until we heard an unruly grinding noise. The passenger side wheel bearing on my boat trailer was toast. We got it back in the driveway and a couple of hrs. later after visiting our friendly NAPA store, we finally got back on the road to Hayden Lake. I guess the bad luck had left us because on my 3rd cast of the day, I mean I hadn't been fishing 5 minutes this big red and green fella came along. Believe it or not, we were looking for small mouth and I love to catch them on my ultralight. I threw a 2 1/2" pumpkin seed tube jig at the edge of a dock, in about 4 feet of water and thought I was caught on an anchor line or something. I guess all the bad luck wasn't gone because my brand new Cabelas digital scale weighed the big guy at 4 lbs and 10 ozs. I may be wrong but at 32" long and 10" deep in the belly, I think he was more than just a little over that weight. I have to say, I do not know what kind of fish this thing was. To me, it's just a really big freakin trout. Can anyone tell me exactly what kind of fish it is, and with those dimensions, guess what he may have really weighed? All in all, we got 3 nice smallmouth in the 2 lb range and this Hook Jawed Hog, so it was a pretty good day. The bass were all in less than ten feet of water, but they were the only 3 bass bites we got all day. I'm not complaining though. It's not very often you get a chance to land a pig like this one on ultralight and 6lb test line.

Happy Fishing,

AJ's dad