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Been grinding my new 8.5 soft tail for the last couple weeks since I got it and have been drawing quite a few fish, but have been struggling with getting them to eat it.

Well we got nice couple days of hot weather here in my area this week so I figured they'd be chewing.

Got out for a few hours the other day after work to fish a small acreage and very shallow lake local to me. Had just about fished the whole thing when I made it to a dock with a lay down next to it. Pitched my bait up shallow between the dock and lay down and turned my head away looking around for where to make my next cast and made two reel turns when the bait stuck. It felt like twig or rope at first so without even turning to look I popped the rod tip up once to try to free it and kept my head turned. When I finally looked over I saw the fish trying to shake it free and panic set in. I grinded her to the boat and noticed she was barely hooked so rather than reaching for the net I flipped it in my tiny boat and thankfully she sat still haha. She went 5.11 and was definitely one of the biggest fish in this tiny lake.

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Been grinding my new 8.5 soft tail for the last couple weeks since I got it and have been drawing quite a few fish, but have been struggling with getting them to eat it.

Well we got nice couple days of hot weather here in my area this week so I figured they'd be chewing.

Got out for a few hours the other day after work to fish a small acreage and very shallow lake local to me. Had just about fished the whole thing when I made it to a dock with a lay down next to it. Pitched my bait up shallow between the dock and lay down and turned my head away looking around for where to make my next cast and made two reel turns when the bait stuck. It felt like twig or rope at first so without even turning to look I popped the rod tip up once to try to free it and kept my head turned. When I finally looked over I saw the fish trying to shake it free and panic set in. I grinded her to the boat and noticed she was barely hooked so rather than reaching for the net I flipped it in my tiny boat and thankfully she sat still haha. She went 5.11 and was definitely one of the biggest fish in this tiny lake.

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