[Jigman13]

Thank for all the nice words. I've relayed the kudos to my friend and I keep urging him to sign up here... I'm sure he's a lurker.

After speaking with a taxidermist down by us in the Woodbridge area, we were reassured of the quality produced in the stretches of river in that area--in miles of both watersheds. The taxidermist had a 9 lb 'bow in his shop from that area that he was working on too. He wouldnt say which river though. He told my friend Steve that he couldnt believe that brown took a 2" inch pins minnow lol... As the adage goes, "elephants in peanuts!". He also gave some insight on some of his honey holes in that area (nothing too specific--just enough to make us want to continue to bring trophies to him lol) and even went on to discuss how a majority of those specimens get into those watersheds and their timeline, growth rates, diet, etc. There was ample reiteration that very large fish wallow in those areas due to conditions, oxygen saturation, and food source. He coined the bigguns' as "sugar fish".

Anyhow, it was a pretty damn cool experience being there to watch my friend land that beautiful fish... It's funny... It was his only fish of the day--he REALLY made it count!

Catch em' up!