Round Valley Trouting 9/13

[anthrax2244]

Took my little brother on the boat early am 6:30 -10:30. Fished the pines depth 80-90' I drifted using shiners, had 3 rods out, one on the bottom, one down 45' and one with 2 splitshot cast out...I marked fish at the bottom and at 35 to 45' down...the rod with the splitshot is an old 6'6 fiberglass rod. We missed a couple fish on the bottom before 8:30. At 8:30 the fiberglass rod started bending. I picked it up and set the hook and felt a good amount of weight. It took awhile to get the fish in, it fought like a laker, but I didnt think a laker would be so close to the surface....However, it was a fat 22'' laker, which I released. Every fish feels like a whale on that fiberglass rod , haha. I've never caught a laker before so close to the surface, I figure it couldn't have been more than 20 feet down. Anyone else ever caught them that high up?