I used to fish Coal lake a lot as a kid, and one time me and a buddy were fishing from an old row boat about a mile down from the North end.We came across a cow standing knee deep in the lake haveing a drink.I had this great idea to scare this cow by casting at it and splashing that big old red devil(or 5 of diamonds,I can't remember) right in front of its face.That was the plan.Well,as it turned out,the spoon smacked the cow right on the top of the head.And that scared it all right.It was all legs and tail after that, as it ran through the bush,bellowing and hollering,yarding out my 12 lb test at a rather alarming rate.The drag on that old berkely reel was screaming..I tried to break the line by grabbing it, and all that I got was some wicked line burns.My buddy was laughing to hard to come over and cut it for me..at least until it hit the end of the line..then..plink!!At this point he was almost hysterical with laughter.
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