I went over the hills to the east side , to Kittitas, lake Fio Ritto. And the wind was probably blowing 25 mph, and it hurt your ears. Just about every time we'd real in our bait was gone, What was happening was the wind was putting so much slack in the line that we couldn't see the fish biting. and after about 2 hours of this we had only caught one fish. And the next thing I know, the guy I was with's pole started going off, and I said hey you gonna get that, he kinda looked at like what are you talking about so I got up and ran over and hooked the fish. and after I got it in, weighed it was 6 and1/2 lbs, about twenty two inches, and the hook just fell out of his mouth, it was pretty exciting, (well worth the trip)

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