I learned a valuable lesson over the weekend and had to let you guys know so that you would not endure the same fate..
It was this past Sunday afternoon that Smalljaw and I went to Lake "E" to whack us a good ol' Bigger'un...
We had fought the wind for the better part of the day and were on the verge of winning before mamma said he had to come home..
We decided to fish one last area while making our way back to the ramp. only 4 fish under our belt and one of those was a shad..
I made a long cast with the wind and slow rolled my big ol' spinnerbait about 10 feet and then "WHAM!!!"..
I Said Scott.. I got a big ol' Gooder'un. and he continued to fish and said something dumb like.. "Yeah.. It looks that way".. Well with out any help from smalljaw other than him telling me the obvious (Don't let him get in the trolling motor).. I fought him down the rusty pipe line I was fishing, into and then out of the trolling motor previously mentioned, and then beside the boat where I learned my lesson.
Under no circumstances should you try to swing a 5lbr into the boat with 12lb line after you have ran it up and down the rusty @*&!! Pipe line and then through the &^@*! Trolling motor. (Who would have thought it would snap your line?)
A better approach would be to lip him yourself rather than relying on some no good fishing partner that is too busy fishing to land your fish even with the big net by his feet. Just FYI.. So in wrap up. Don't swing em into the boat and don't bring a worthless partner or you could lose your 6 dollar spinnerbait.