One on the wall. 29 inch fatty from battle river July 3rd 1996. She was 9lb one ounce at the taxidermist (Clarence kriaski) my son was born the next day he weighed 9 lb 2 ounce. Easy to remember to say the least. North wabasca 1999 or 2000. Last couple days before she closed landed a huge sow over 10 lb, got a picture of a picture to post of that one. Big ones out of moose lake 25 years ago had to be ten lbs. It was open year round and we ice fished it right to the last minute. Terminal tackle was junk back then. We straightened hooks, snapped lines, cussed like sailors. Kept the nice 5lb males and put the big football females back. Never got the very biggest of the ones we saw laying on the ice. They were huge. A year class that I would guess 12 to 15 lb a week before the spawn. Few and far between but when you saw one we all knew what you were talkin about.
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