John(guest in 103) struggles to lift this big drum that he caught off the back wall this afternoon. There have been a number of drum caught around the complex the last few days.
The drum was larger than the yard stick, but Sandy(107) had a tape that showed it to be between 39 and 40 inches.

Interestingly, you can see the fish was foul hooked. Even then it did not put up much of a fight, just shear weight drag. A comparable red would have fought much harder. The fish was hooked in the mouth, but with someone else's hook and line. The rusted circle hook even had a barnacle growing on it. It looked like the hook and residual line had been there a long time.