Toledo Bend Reservoir served up a headturner for Jim Franklin, after boating a 14-plus-lb largemouth dragging a Carolina-rigged brush hog through flooded timber.
The fish beat the stateās ShareLunker threshold by more than a pound.
āIt was total chaos in the boat,ā Franklin tells F&S. āShe jumped five timesāand every time she surfaced, she looked bigger.ā