March04 I FINALLY put a hawgmomma in the boat. 27" length, only 18" girth and she weighed on a certified digital scale at 9.5#s. She came from a private lake in MS (about 25 acres) that was built and stocked for trophy bass fishing. Had I caught her a month earlier before she spawned her weight would've been closer too the 12-13# range! She had already spawned and was in rough shape, just trying to recover from the spawn. She was quickly measured, photo'd and then released. Keep the genes in the lake and a repro mount looks much better and lasts FOREVER.

I caught her on a 1/4oz black/chartreuse Strike King jig with a Strike King chartreuse/pepper 3x crawtrailer in about 5' of water under a HUGE stump. Thank God I had 30# braid on!!!

Throw em back and show your kids how to catch em one day,
RA