the stripe type success @ last!

Well after along night and very little sleep decided to stick to the plan and hit the pipe in good ol' South Bound. Didn't get the early start I had hope for but was on the river at about 8 this mornin. Started throwin hatters but the river was so high and fast they were not swimmin to well so switched it up to a bomber green back w/silver sides. Casted my arm off tryin to cover as much ground as I could...was gettin tired so decided to fish a hole right in front of me like 10 yards away...casted just above the pipe and as it came over the pipe gave it a pull to get it to dig in and started a decent retrive due to the current. BAM! it was game on.....gotta say it was alittle irie watchin this big fish makin such a racket in the chocolate milk. Was scared excited and just plain pumped all at the same time. Fought it for what seemed like forever but was probably more like 10 to 15 minutes...It made some great runs and finally I coaxed it in to the shallow water. WOW! What a fight, drag screamin.....Ran into AndyS and Fasteddie29 also...always nice to meet guys from njf. Andy also had a nice one on up @ the falls but it took a run down stream and got caught up in some trees...we did our best to get it out with out lossin the fish. Waded down stream in between the trees to try to free it....felt the fished tail beat against my leg....startled the hell out of me...long story short, we lost the fish but save the plugg...