jacket weather...

Actually todays best fish didn't get it's photo taken. I'm guessing 18"+. I hooked it in the roof of the mouth on a three inch grub on a standard 1/4 ounce ball head jighead. The hook popped out easily enough but the fish started bleeding like a stuck pig. Very strange as it was hooked nowhere near the gills. Rather than stress it any more I released it immediately. All fish were on a smoke metalflake grub including the channel and the shovel. The shovelhead hit in about three feet of water in a chute of water that was zooming along, no way you could have stood up in it. Needless to say in the swift water on 8lb line the shovelhead was a blast.