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[Skagittarius]

Saint Croix River Fall fatty. This was one of the hardest fighting fish I've ever hooked. My buddy who was on the oars handed me a Murdich minnow he tied up and a few minutes later got this monster. I grew up fishing smallies on the Delaware, Schuylkill, and Susquehanna but never crossed paths with one like this.

 

[Stonedfish]

Saint Croix River Fall fatty. This was one of the hardest fighting fish I've ever hooked. My buddy who was on the oars handed me a Murdich minnow he tied up and a few minutes later got this monster. I grew up fishing smallies on the Delaware, Schuylkill, and Susquehanna but never crossed paths with one like this.
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Very nice. That is such a cool river.
Were you upstream from Stillwater?
SF