I slept in Saturday and ran errands (Costco free samples = Dukes chowder had a buffet!) with the family, so no fishing. Slept in again this morning, woke up, made breakfast for the kids and wife, then the 6 year old begged..."Dad, can I go fishing with you this time?", so that we did! We were on American Lake around 11 a.m. We started pulling the normal gear around at 25-30 feet and within 10mins, my boy had the first fish boated. After boating a few koks, I wanted to see if the bows were wanting to play a little... so I rigged up a red wedding ring, tipped with a chunk of night crawler. 10' down and 65 pulls back on the south end of the lake, across from the boat house, in 60' of water. Within minutes... I had a huge take down! This thing smacked its tail on the surface loud and hard! I tried playing the fish the best I could....but unfortunately, I was going against the wind and the boat was all over the place. I had the fish 10 feet behind my boat and it stopped and ran off. The hook came flying out... and I had some choice words flying out of my mouth! We brought 9 koks home. Tossed a few back, lost a few... and lost the American Lake Rainbow Monster! But I'll be back with a vengeance to get him! I'll post it when I do!

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