My 42 incher came that way though not bottom bouncing. Was working a tickle tail (think fuzz-e grub) with a minnow across mud flats about ten feet deep in hopes of enticing a negative walleye. Light action rod with 6# line made for some fun! There are big carp in that lake and I thought I had one. Horsed it to the surface and then all hell broke loose. laugh


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.