Well, I finally caught one that wasn't totally embarrassing. I went to Lake Davis (near Portola, CA) with a friend from work. We left at the unnatural hour of 4:00a so that we could be on the lake and fishing before 6:00a (it takes about an hour to get there from Reno). Although the fruits were not many, at least they were okay. I pulled one out that's definitely 18" (questionably 18 1/2"?) and the other one was about 13", which is a decent-size fish (it just looked a little small next to the bigger one). All in all, there was nothing to complain about. It was extremely windy, so we ended up leaving to get out of the wind.