The approach Rose Dore tells it, her husband Brian Dore and his brother Bobby have been fishing a pond in Yorkville.
She had me when she emailed, “It was just a pond by some houses—no name.”
But it were given higher. Brian stuck the largemouth bass on a No. 6 hook with an evening crawler on “his trusty Zebco” with what seems like a bluegill in its mouth.
“He must have just ate him and then took the bait,” she emailed. “He released both fish. Needless to say, my husband said he can die happy now.”
Without a measuring tape, he measured the fish on a ribbon, which got here to 22 inches at house.
“Hope you loved this tale, ‘cause he hasn’t stopped speaking about it,’’ she concluded.
Come now, this is precisely the type of tale I really like.
Brian Dore with a large largemouth bass that still stuck a panfish.Provided
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