Wired reader Tim Hill from Lockwood, CA sent us this gi-normous fish-of-a-lifetime story. Way to go Tim!
"OK picture this....it was my first time to the lake my friend had been fishing since he was a kid. It was March 14th, 7:10 in the morning. I tied on a Bill Dance Spitting Image Top Water and tossed it about 15 feet from an out-cropping of rocks, mind you this was my first cast of the morning. Well I let the rings fade away and started to walk the dog and the water exploded!!! It started stripping line so I cranked it down good and shoved the rod tip under the water not wanting it to get air! My friend was staring in awe! I can still hear him whining that he had fished this lake all his life and has never seen anything that big!. The next fish that morning broke my pole.....I just cant imagine what that might have looked like!"
Tim Hill
"This fish is dedicated to my fishing partner that I have lost track of..Mat Kitamura."
Tim said the fish weighed in at 20 lbs on an old rusty Zebco spring type scale so he really didn't trust it but there's no question that it falls in the Fish-of-a-Lifetime category!
The fish was released safe and sound!
