Vic's Monster 20-Pound Brown Released!

Vic Eldrid and his friends were drifting just above Short Creek about noon today when something struck his minnow/Gulp white egg combo. It was big. The 3 guys in one of our jon boats had a time trying to get the big fish secure, tossing the one and only net from one end of the boat to the other. But they got it in somehow. Getting into the small livewell was a chore too... and I had a harder time getting it out! It's a 23.5 x 33.5 inch brown trout weighing 20.56 pounds. They said it would have weighed more if it hadn't coughed up a half digested rainbow trout just before they netted it.

After an hour rest, we took some pictures and released it back into the lake.