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Mine has to be Mothers Day 2001.  My  new born daughter had been in the hospital since be born on April 7, 2001. For Mothers a friend of our's wanted to take myselfe, my wife and my oldest daughter out fishing for mothers day. We needed a break from the hospital, so we decided to go. My oldest was only seven at the time and she really hadn't been out "Walleye" fishing. We set up on a bar and were going to do a little bobber fishing. I had been trying to teach her about bobber fishing. Well she was set-up in the back of the boat. I told her  when/if the bobber goes down, pull up the slack, wait until you fill something and set the hook. We had only been sitting for a little bit when her bobber went down, she did just like I told her, but when she set the hook, there was nothing there. She brought the line up and her leech was gone, I told her run up grap another leech and get it back down right away. I rebaited her hook for her, she dropped the line right down, next to the motor. I told, her to watch it as it goes down, something may hit it right away. Well, she just opened the bale and sat down, I was watching and when her bobber hit the water it just kept going down. I told her, her bobber was down and she got all excited, but did just like I said. She set the hook and we could just see the pole bend. She played it for a couple sec. when it decided to run (She had a Snoppy rod and Reel) the Rod came out of her hands and the bale release was hit. My friend and I stood on the back of the boat just wondering how big it was. When all of the sudden we seen the bobber go swimming along the boat. We then knew the fish was still on and I handed her the rod and helped here real in her biggest she fish she has got to date.   It was a 27 1/2 in Walleye. We didn't have our camera with, it was down at the hospital, but we didn't ever want  her to forget this. We ended up keeping the fish and took many pictures when we got home. We were sorry we had to keep that fish. But, we think we would have been more sorry had we not.