How about a 30# striper? On a 6'6" bass rod? In the rapids?

Can't hunt on Sunday in VA... so pops and I took my boat and went fishing this morning. The river was a little cloudy, and we thought it might be a bit early in the year, but we hammered the stripers this morning. Probably caught 15 or so... all over 7 pounds.... this is the biggest striper we have ever caught in freshwater... I caught one 34" fish last year... this one was 36" and a touch over 30#s.

Cell phone pic... rather poor quality... but thats what we had. I fought the fish for 15 minutes and had to chase it with the boat... cold water stripers at the end of one of the best urban whitewater stretches in the country ain't nothing to be taken lightly! My arms were so cramped from holding the little rod and working the fish that I couldn't lift the thing up... so I just held her in my lap. Released her to go make some more stripers.