Nico | Thu Jun-05-08 04:05 PM |
Member since Nov 03rd 2001
1914 posts
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#10477, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 0
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Probably the dumbest big bite I got happend 6-7 years ago. I was fishing out of the back of a friends boat and as we were cruising down the shoreline we went right over a big fish that immediately kicked off into deep water. It was late May at the time, so it may have been on a bed, though we didn't see one.
We kept on moving down the bank, but I picked up a brush hog and made a long cast behind the boat where I thought the fish was, hand-pulling line off my reel as my bait sunk and the boat was moving away.
Soon as I tightened up my line the fish was on... 13.7lbs.
It's much easier to think of big bites I deserved to get, but didn't deserve to land. Like the time I broke my rod in half setting the hook on a 10lber with 100 feet of line out. Or the time I hooked a 10lber in the back of the throat. My stinger rig broke, the bait flew out of the fish's mouth, and the 2nd treble hook snagged it on the outside of its head. Or even just a couple months ago when I had a 10lber swim through a hole in my landing net while fighting it on spinning gear.
Don't even get me started on the birds. I've never caught two bass on one cast with a swimbait, but I have snared a double-header of canadian geese, for a while anyway :)
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dockboy | Thu Jun-05-08 11:57 PM |
Member since Jun 09th 2005
205 posts
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#10482, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 9
Thu Jun-05-08 11:58 PM by dockboy
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Not exactly a big bite.. but a couple stupid bites! Was fishing with a boater in a small club tourney at the local lake last year, It was windy, and we were hitting an area in open water I know well. I threw a Beaver out, let it sink, and was fishing when my partner hooks up. I net the fish, and somehow in the process manage to scatter my gear acoss the rear deck. My rod was on the passenger seat with the Beaver out, andI'm sitting there scrambling to get all my #### back together. Pick up the rod after 5 minutes, start to reel in for another cast, and fish on! Had one recently where the fish ate a dropshot while I was helping my dad untangle his rig. I'm sitting there and just finished put everything back in order when my rod goes sideways down the gunnel. Ended up being a solid 3lber. Don't get me started on birds. Seems every trip out I almost hook or nail a bird on the water with a cast. My worst ever was when I was fishing a Vixen last year and ended having a great blue heron take in in the leg. He didn't even hit the lure! I made a cast across this long point and as the line settling on the water, this bird just comes out of the trees right across the line. The bird takes line like crazy and I'm holding onto the rod with one hand try to find my pliers (which I had left on the bottom of the boat in an Einstein moment..) I watched the friggin Vixen fly out of the water into the bird's leg right as I run out of line and it snaps off the knot. Long story short(er)... my friends who was on the lake that day had to join me while we netted and proceeded to do removal surgery on a really pissed off heron. Bass + Fisherman= BAASS ADDICTT!!!
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