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WOW! What an invigorating ride out on the lake in the crisp
morning air! Look at the bald eagles soaring gracefully overhead, but
wait, look at the moose busting into the trees from the shoreline after
being disturbed by the early morning intruders. These are your thoughts
as you lean back in your spring loaded seat as your guide confidently
heads you toward a great day of fishing...and then...you're here!!!
Your anticipation is so intense that you seem to be moving in slow motion
as you attempt to quickly snap that brand new "five-o-diamonds"
on the swivel hook. Finally you're ready and the first cast of the day
slaps against the crystal clear water and then disappears. You go to the
power handle and start the retrieve. What's that? Did I feel a tap? Before
another thought enters your head, your rod is almost jerked from your
hand as the huge northern makes his play for what he thought was going
to be an easy breakfast.
JERK, SLASH, PULL, JERK, SLASH, PULL...go man go! Boy, if the guys back
at the office could see this! For what seems an eternity, you match wits
with the foe on the end of that new line. Gradually the huge northern
is sapped of his strength and is brought up alongside the boat to be netted
by the guide. But then...as the huge northern sees the boat there is another
long run and the fight starts all over. Twenty minutes later, once again
the trophy is brought to the side of the boat and this time is netted.
Into the boat he comes, all twenty-nine pounds of him!
Won't a replica of that beauty look good on the den wall?
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