Crazy. 13 lb.well 3/4 oz. nearly.
Erie is 1 1/2 hrs. East of me approx..
They scratch up a fw over ten often enough to make it interesting. That's at least double the weight of the few I've boated...
Erie being shallow can be a meanie though with the right/wrong wind.
Here on the West side in Lake Mi.. the wind is fickle too.
Hard to fish when the boat is making you jig violently three or four foot jerks at a time.
We a co-worker's boat once and invited a rookie co-worker along. About a sixteen footer with a modified v-hull in four foot waves.
After he got over turning green , he asked when it was his turn to drive the boat up and down....
As a kid I could run the ancient 16 footer we had through a couple lakes to get to Lake Mi..
Was not as committed to going on it if it was rough though as a tourney or long planned trip would have made me...
Turned around and went back to inland waters after seeing an angry big lake more than once!
Good luck to your Mr. and company.
A fifteen pounder should clinch it......