Pretty Cool Fishing Story

[mhall]

Very cool indeed..

[JUSTINHALL]

That's cool, it's always fun when you beat the odds.
With groupers and red snapper they will feed over and over after taking your bait or busting you off. I have been busted off many times over in a row by a fish only to finally get him in with a mouth full of jewelry. Its amazing that they will fight hard enough to break off 80 or 100lb test leader then hammer it again as soon as you re-tie and send another bait down. 3 out of 5 big groupers have jewelry in their mouth when you bring them up, they have all played the game before. I always remove it though before sending them back.
Like astrobass I too have donated a few loaded rods, it can sometimes be an expensive lesson.

[mhall]

One day at Cumberland APB and I were casting a long tapered point for Smallmouth with topwaters. Andrew throws a long cast and comes across the point and I say oh your gonna get bit on that one. Those words had just cleared my mouth and Boom one hits and he sets the hook and the line breaks on the hook set. We both hated it because it was one of his sweet home made walking baits.
Then it starts jumping and trying to toss the bait and I watch closely and on about the third maybe fourth try I see something sling free. Yep we went over there and had to do a little searching in the slight chop on the surface and there she lays, bait recovered.....

[DJD]

One day at Cumberland APB and I were casting a long tapered point for Smallmouth with topwaters. Andrew throws a long cast and comes across the point and I say oh your gonna get bit on that one. Those words had just cleared my mouth and Boom one hits and he sets the hook and the line breaks on the hook set. We both hated it because it was one of his sweet home made walking baits.
Then it starts jumping and trying to toss the bait and I watch closely and on about the third maybe fourth try I see something sling free. Yep we went over there and had to do a little searching in the slight chop on the surface and there she lays, bait recovered.....

Similar thing happened to us....I was fishing at Sebastian Inlet in Florida and the Bluefish were schooling like crazy. I mean big roaming dark schools of Blues. I was using a chartruese topwater chugger made of wood and it was getting slammed! That is some of the best topwater fishing ever!!! One would hit it, miss it and another would slam it while it sat there. Well I finally lost it while fighting a blue and watched for it to come up but it never did. Many hours later after the slack tide and with the new outgoing tide moving good we go back to the same area to intercept these blues again and there was my chugger floating around. The water had penetrated into the wood and split the sides a little since the teeth of those blues had tore the finish up.....but it still floated. I always look for crankbaits that come off as well since they float.

[mhall]

Similar thing happened to us....I was fishing at Sebastian Inlet in Florida and the Bluefish were schooling like crazy. I mean big roaming dark schools of Blues. I was using a chartruese topwater chugger made of wood and it was getting slammed! That is some of the best topwater fishing ever!!! One would hit it, miss it and another would slam it while it sat there. Well I finally lost it while fighting a blue and watched for it to come up but it never did. Many hours later after the slack tide and with the new outgoing tide moving good we go back to the same area to intercept these blues again and there was my chugger floating around. The water had penetrated into the wood and split the sides a little since the teeth of those blues had tore the finish up.....but it still floated. I always look for crankbaits that come off as well since they float.

Very cool....

[riverrat12]

Great stories...if I could type faster I'd be all over this one LOL.

[Fishin is life]

Few years ago fishing a tournament i take a bite on a plastic worm, reel down and set the hook and my line breaks, bad spot in my line. Before i can set down to retie my friend throws in behind me and sets the hook. A 2 1/2lb bass comes jumping out of the water and spits his bait. He reels in and sure enough he has my hook and worm hanging off of his jig. He somehow managed to get his hook between my hook and worm in the fishes mouth and pulled it out. So much for the people who say a fish wont bite again for awhile

[barren basser]

cool story

[kentuckykingfisher]

I was cat fishing once and forgot to leave my spool open and clicker on i ended up losing the whole rod to the water. After fishing about a hour later I get a hit and start bringing in what I believe to be a nice cat but to my surprise the fish I had just caught wrapped itself up with the line from my lost rod with the other cat still hooked So I ended hauling in 2 cats and my lost rod. Talking about feeling lucky

[Devils Horse]

A Smallmouth about 2 1/2 pounds or so took my shakey head on Barren earlier this year. Rascal peeled plenty of 8 lb pound line off the drag and jumped 4 times before I got it up beside the boat. Told him you're about a mean little SOB as I reached down for him. All of a sudden my bait comes out and he swims away. I looked and the hook point wasn't even pulled through the 7 inch finesse worm. Looked just like it did when I threw it out there.