Another first for Lake Erie fishing

I heard last week somebody caught a Muskie , I have heard of Steelhead being caught.
Today we were trolling west of West Sister with jets and spoons and one of my Offshore Boards buried under the water and the drag started singing .
I had trouble getting the rod out of the holder and tried to horse the board up on the surface.. No use. After 180 ft of line ripped off I finally cut it.
I knew I wasn't hooked on the bottom.
We reeled in the lines and went back to retrieve the board floating on the surface.
Once we started pulling my 20LB test line in we pulled up a rope covered in zebra mussels and eventually a 20lb anchor covered as well.
First for me ;)

Awesome story! Well-told. It's always something on Lake Erie.

A few years ago I snagged a line and started pulling it up once I got my bait into the boat. It had a catfish hooked up to that line so we netted it and got in the boat and could see the line was still going out. So I pulled on the line on the other end and finally got it to the end and a brand new rod and reel was there looked like it had only been down there a day or so. So that was a nice find. Certainly a first for me!