That’s awesome! Nice to see that your commitment to a new technique paid off. Your comment about being surprised to see the big girls has me intrigued.
Are you insinuating that these fish came from small waters acreage wise, or just that you had not run into any big girls at these particular bodies of water? I would expect that fish that big would surely come out of our bigger lakes, and not ponds. If they came from backyard pond type spots that’s really impressive.