Yea it was a beauty. We caught a lot of pickerel that day but that one was by far the biggest. I can't take credit for it though, that's my nephew that caught ...more it.
Didn't weigh her and being alone I couldn't even get a decent measurement. I carry a yardstick in the boat and she was somewhere like 3,4,5 inches longer ...more than that. 40" would be with an inch or so of accurate. Far short of my best ever but much bigger than any I've caught in probably 15 years.