The photo circulating on social media that showed Connor Donovan holding a large striped bass almost looked too odd to be real.
The longtime angler assured viewers it was “definitely a real thing.”
Donovan caught the striped bass, which he estimates weighed between 30 and 40 pounds, on March 20 while with two fishing buddies on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Boathouse.
He said he felt a “dunk, dunk” on his fishing line.
“Like a double tap on it,” he said. And then “you could feel it going back and forth.”
Donovan said he realized the fish’s size when they had to turn on the boat’s motor and chase it up river. A normal-size fish doesn’t usually swim upriver, he said.
“I peeled 50 yards of line in 10 or 15 seconds,” Donovan said. “It was that fast."
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