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Hey Tom, Thanks for sharing!! I have missed your great reports and pictures the past few months so it's great to see you back in action. Have a great offseason Chris

Awesome! Not a lot of folks have seen it, but it's still my favorite clip of all time.....in fact I just watched it again for the 100th time and I still die laughing!!

BTW - One of my favorite quotes of all time. However, it's only hilarious if you have seen the original TV sports broadcast of the nerdy guy who uses this line when he's ruining the sports boradcast b/c he's so nervous

Brother Matt - best fish I've seen this year!! Way to go - look at the tail on that thing I will be pulling my boat out for the season tomorrow, so it's nice to keep living the fishing through reports like yours. Be safe and tight lines my friend, Chris

Your underwater videos are always my favorite! Thanks so much for sharing Chris

Awesome report! That's the way to end the season. Thanks for sharing, Chris

Agree 100%!!

What a fantastic report - thanks for all the details to help out the other fishermen/women! Chris

Agree 100% with Anthony. You will be rewarded by the fish gods for your honesty. Keep up the great work Tomy Chris

To my LOU friends, As another stellar year on this beautiful lake comes to a close for me, I want to thank all of you for all the great memories this past season. It was a season of calm seas, great fishing, and great friendship and family times with all who fished with me this past year. This morning I fished with my great friend Anthony and his daughter Brianna. We hit the offshore site early at 350' and beyond and our best action came between 380-410'. We managed to lose two brutes - one which straightened out one side of a treble hook (see the pic below) and a second beast which we lost 15' behind the boat. The offshore bite kept us busy with majors today including some nice steelhead as well. The biggest fish we landed I thought was a derby steelhead, but boatside it was "only" 13.3# so she just missed the last day leaderboard. This fish was fought hard by Anthony's 15 year old daughter who fought this fish better than many anglers with 30 years experience! One of our best hits was a mighty rip on the 85' rigger - free slider, which was a monster king that Anthony just couldn't budge no matter how hard he tried. It peeled out 600' of mono until it surfaced once and after gaining ground it became tangled in the 10 color leadcore. Amazingly, the beast straightened out the treble and lived to fight another day - something which blew me away. We had another crazy rip on the 400' copper pulling clean meat on a DW glow head and it almost spooled us as well. When we saw the fish surface 1/4 mile behind the boat all of our jaws dropped at how far away he was. Anthony, pouring sweat but concentrating like a precision scientist, battled him for 30 minutes and managed to get in 300 yards of backing plus the 400' copper but unfortunately the monster shook the hook only 15' from the boat after a valiant battle. His mammoth mouth and wide girth put him 27-30 pounds easy we felt, although it'll simply go down as another fish tale of the "one that got away".......Compared with the two 30+ pounders I've caught in my lifetime, this fish had that unmistakable huge mouth and huge wide girth which is why we felt he was so big. We will never know how big he truly was, but I can promise you that it will be a memory we will never forget. It was a spectacular end to a great year - good luck to everyone and please be safe. Thanks for sharing in my many tales and many videos, and thanks for all your advice and what you all taught me this year. Now it's on to the deer woods for more tales and treasured memories. The following all took hits/fish today: clean meat - yellow/glow DW head DW SS 42 sec. free slider NK Kevorkian spoon - 85' rigger NK Purple thunder/ glow ladder spoon - 85' rigger ten color core - DW regular Buffalo Bill spoon DW SS - UV wonderbread - free slider Fuller KOS - rigger Chris

WTG - thanks for sharing your video as it's awesome. Those bells would drive me bonkers though. Good luck this weekend, Chris

WTG - still bumpy out there? Thanks, Chris

Thanks for your incredible reports - they really are awesome. How choppy is it? Good luck, Chris

Video added - see link above or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4bO0A5P-_w

Great stuff - thanks for sharing. It makes me want to run more fixed cheaters only 5-10 feet above my lowest bait and/or Mupped rigs after seeing so many of the fish hang out above the bait. Thanks so much for the footage! Chris

Cool stuff - amazing how long they follow the lures and dart in and out, only to come back later for the fatal pounce. Thanks very much for sharing, Chris

Great job out there. All fish on riggers and just one wire? Very impressive. Good luck, Chris

Doubt it - you will have to save it as "Youtube format" using your editting software in order to upload. The Cineform program has this built in

Awesome report - what downspeed unit do you have since there are often differences between units. Also, what was your SOG? Thanks again for sharing, Chris

You have to upload it to Youtube and then post a link to Youtube. Chad - the dude that runs this site may also be able to chime in Chris