In the afternoon of Jan. 21, Larson was fishing alone at a spot called the flats, on Clearwater West. He told CBC News he was jigging with two rods, watching for fish to show on his electronic sonar unit. "I had my right pole up about 25-to-30 feet and then the left pole was down at the bottom and I jigged it a few times," he said. "Then I saw a fish come in kind of in between both poles. I had a white tube jig with a minnow on so I reeled up above the fish and he nailed it."