Just a word of advise Pete......you should get rid of the cradle. They can be quite damaging to the fish and you tend to have to spend an hour afterwards trying to get your hooks out of them. Go to a large sized Beckman style net....you will wish you had a long time ago....
Let's be real here my friend........unless you are 11 feet tall those fish are not 9.5 lbs and 4.1 lbs. The world record is only 10.27 lbs...
http://www.insideline.net/2001/news/world-record-spot.html
If you can't be honest then we are not interested in your posts