Attached is a picture of a "fish of a lifetime." This Walleye weighed 16.2 pounds/33" long. This fish was caught on December 30, 2006, my husband, Bob's 60th birthday at Fort Peck Reservoir, in Montana. I caught this fish on a tip-up. It had froze pretty hard the night before and Bob hadn't chipped out a very big hole, just barely big enough to get the reel out. I set the hook and started reeling in the fish and as it came up realized that no way was that fish going to come out of that hole. Bob was able to gaff the fish so that it wouldn't get away. Then he ran and got the camera and the chipper to make the hole bigger. It took some doing, but we finally were able to get this monster out of the hole. Whew, was it worth it! What a huge fish! The first thing I asked my husband was how much it weighed, and he said, "Honey, you just caught the fish of a lifetime!" -- Kate Bahr, Great Falls
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