If you look to the end of Newbies thread you will see a message and some pictures of the fish I caught at Wallowa Lake yesterday. Today I took a friend with me and we hit the lake at 0530 and picked up a few fish in the 17-21 inch range. By 1100 he had three in the boat and I had four and the wind was starting to pick up a little so we decided to call it a good day and headed for the launch at the north end. We trolled back and were within a 1/4 mile of the launch when I hooked number 5 for the day. I was trolling a wedding ring with shoepeg corn behind a Luhr Jensen Bolo and we were in 24 feet of water fishing about 18-20 feet deep. I knew the fish was big when it hit, but I had no idea just how big. When I got it into the boat we asked a nearby boat if they had a digital scale that I could borrow. We ended up sending the fish to the other boat via a net and they weighed the fish at 8.14 pounds but said they thought the scale weighed a little light. We got the fish back loaded the boat up and headed to Joseph to get the fish weighed on a certified scale. The outcome was 8.85 pounds which makes the fish a new Oregon State and U.S record. The fish was 26 inches long with a girth of 17 1/4 inches.
