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Brooks Big John

This is the text of Brooks Big John telling about the one time he caught a fish this big, recorded July 5, 1998 by Michael Kline in Washington, D.C.

We spear in an little-bitty teepee, probably about, oh, four feet tall. You chop your hole, and you make five little bitty holes around your spearing hole. And then in those holes you place little-bitty sticks about two inches in diameter and four feet high. You tie them together on top so it forms a teepee. You wrap the teepee in a lot of old blankets and tarps and what not. And then we get inside this teepee and we lay down in there. We lay down on our stomachs. And we jig with our left hand – if you’re right handed, you jig with your left hand – and we the spear in our right hand for when the musky chases our decoys.

Quite exciting when the fish are coming in and are trying to grab the decoy out of your hand. I’ve had a few grab it you know – and they’ll snatch it right out of your hand. Boy, the musky is an aggressive fish up there. They’ll get to be five, six feet long.

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