
Fought like hell, took some line a few times, knew it wasn't a bass and was too slow to be a pike. I got it up to shore and as I was reaching down with my pliers to remove the senko and hook from it's mouth it thrashed and broke the line, beaching itself... so I took the photo op and then prodded it back into the shallows where it swam quickly off. I'm actually a little amazed this was the first big cat I've hooked into all these years fishing senkos along the bottom. Just 'lucky' I guess.