Traps, Triggers And The Ghosts Of Bassin's Past
Patrick Walters still dreams about the fish. Weekly, he says, he thinks about the monster that jumped 10 times on its way to his boat, hanging on by a single treble hook attached to a Rat-L-Trap. Fifteen years ago, while fishing with his dad in a tournament on South Carolina’s Santee Cooper, Walters felt his line go tight and his breath leave his lungs as a bass larger than any he’d ever seen — bigger than the two 10-pounders and the 11-pounder he’s caught since — soared into the sky.
“She was the biggest fish I’ve ever lost in my entire life,” he retells. “I bombed a Trap out there, and it just loads up. I could see the
