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Written by Craig Nyhus   
Sunday, 01 June 2008
Birthday bash: Carol Watson holds the 31-inch trout she landed and released on her 53rd birthday. Photo by Michael Angell.
Birthday bash: Carol Watson holds the 31-inch trout she landed and released on her 53rd birthday. Photo by Michael Angell.
San Antonio woman lands 31-inch speckled trout

For her 53rd birthday, Carol Watson’s husband, Andrew, took her fishing at Baffin Bay, and she landed the fish of a lifetime.

“We went with guide Michael Angell,” Andrew said. “We had fished some of the bays together, but this was her first trip with a guide.”

The group fished live shrimp behind a popping cork, and quickly began catching good numbers of smaller trout. “It seemed to raise the fish,” Andrew said. “The water was pretty murky.”

Carol struggled with the guide’s spinning rig. “I hadn’t fished a spinning rig before, and I was a little erratic with my casting,” she said. “They had to duck every time I got ready to cast.

Of course, they had me in the middle of the boat.”

At around 10:30 a.m., both husband and guide wished they had given her their spot in the boat. “It was a big strike,” Andrew said. “The line started stripping out fast. When the fish rolled, Michael said ‘did you see that?’” “I could barely reel,” Carol said. “Then the guide got really excited. After he finally netted it, he said, ‘Oh, my God, people fish all their lives and don’t catch a fish like that.’”

Angell measured the trout at 31 inches. “It was heavy, too,” Angell said. “It weighed a little more that 11 pounds. And I didn’t throw it for her, either.”

“Michael asked if we wanted to mount the fish,” Carol said. “But we decided to release it. Of course we forgot our camera, but Michael had his in the boat. We took a quick picture and Michael revived the fish and let it go.”

Her husband said Carol is the lucky one when it comes to fishing. “She caught 80 percent of the fish that day,” he said. “She does that to me all the time.”

“It was so much fun,” Carol said. “I felt like I got to dance with this magnificent fish for a few minutes.”
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