Holiday Weekend On Lake Viking

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spent the fourth up north..an hour or so north of K.C. on a private lake...needless to say the water was quite active with boats and people, making for a less than ideal fishing expedition. i did manage to hook up a few: 4 small mouth, 2 large mouth, 3 whites, and the strangest for me a 3.5# ( i think blue cat) caught from a peddle boat in a cove on a mepps black fury. I thought i had finally caught a keeper bass (19 inch min) but when it broke the surface all i could do was laugh and hope i did not break line before getting back to the dock and getting a net...did not want it flopping around in the boat with me