Lake Michigan Museum Campus 6pm-7pm

Bought the 2-month Burhnam & Dusable parking pass a few weeks ago. Tried to fish Dusable, but no attendant on duty, so I didn't want to chance it with a ticket in the 15 min parking zone. Then I went down to Burhnam to park in the qualified lot. Didn't find it. The cops and fisherman there weren't too helpful, so I just metered it along the museum campus drive street parking.

Fished a red/gold cleo and a 5" spoon (switched back and forth) from behind the Shedd all the way to the 12th Street beach (barely south of the Adler) from 6-7pm. No bites at all until I got to the shoreline all the way behind Adler, when I hooked onto this:



with the spoon (on 8-lb fireline). As I was doing my slow retrieve, the drag just went zzzzzipppppppppppppp. I was completely caught off guard after almost 45 minutes of futile casting and retrieving. No camera on me so I brought it home to get the picture--plus I know the in-laws will happily cook this one up.



I have no scale at home, so no clue of how much it weights. Maybe 8-lbs?