While out prefishing in preparation for the QFS walleye tournament I was working weedlines with crankbait when my rod was just about ripped from my hand. Drag starts screaming and I say"Must be a big Pike" Well i am fighting and fighting but not making much head way and infact am starting to lose ground and am thinking now this must be one really really big pike. Put my foot on the trolling motor to make up ground and am finally making some head way when i see a really wide and long flash in the water which we all know means drum. Once we got it in the boat i pulled out the scales and it weighs 17lbs! Not as big as Marty's but boy what a tank of a fish. Nothing you can do to stop these things just hold on and wait to tire it out. The next picture is of a 5.4lb eye that cymbals hit. It was caught about high noon in 6ft of water on a crankbait
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