It's not a Bass

I may have caught a chain pickerel that was close to, if not, the North Carolina record back about 1960. (The current record is 8 lbs (1968) so, it wouldn't have lasted long. I was piddling around with a very cheap fly rod in Silver Lake and had one of those rod-breaking experiences with a chain pickerel. The fish weighed 6 lbs 8 oz three hours after it was caught. I had to ride my bike to a bait store (5 miles) to get it weighed. We thought it was a record, but the owner wouldn't do anything to help me register it because, it wasn't a bass. That was the last fly rod I've had. I keep thinking about relearning to fly fish.