good fish
went to bond lake all day today in cary, fishin was fairly slow at first my buddy caught 2 nice 1lb+ crappie and we hooked up with some small cats, i caught a 20+lb snapping turtle and we continued with the small cats. all of a sudden my rod went off and almost pulled in to the water. got the hook set and line started screaming off. I knew it was a big cat possibly the biggest i've had on the end of my line. I fought the beast for at least 10 minutes of cranking and drag runs and had it maybe 10 yards from shore... as it came to the top it wrapped up with a log, my leader frayed and the monster got off. all i saw was the monstrous tail... it was bare minimum 12lb channel cat, could have been larger. my PB to date is 8lb, i was crushed. A while later my buddy landed a nice 8# and we caught another few little guys. we went and got lunch and went back to a new spot and straight killed em. rods were going off one way and another. he caught a nice 6.5 and then a nice 4 and we kept having good bites. i caught some more dinks and then hooked up with a decent little 2lb and my other rod went off HARD, got it to the bank it was a solid 5# cat. we had a heck of a day landing a combined 18 cats and 22 total fish with many more cats missed or didn't take the bait fully. ended u with 1 monster snapper at 20lb, a smaller around 10lb, and another mud turtle. good day on the water worn out