I caught this big sucker in the rock river on a light action rod. It bent the rod near the point that i was afraid it was going to snap and pulled the drag out until the line was nearing its end. I was alone in the boat so it was quite a battle getting it close enough to the boar for me to net it. I wish I could have taken better pictures like one with me holding the scale.

This sucker tipped the scale just over 18lbs. Its pretty hard to hold my phone to snap a pix and hold the nasty sucker at the same time. so this is the best i could do. This is would have been an exciting fish to catch with the kids in the boat. I released it so maybe one of the kids can catch it in the future.