The Situation --- the solution?

"Larry L" wrote in message
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The situation:

He briefly turns away, towards the far shore, but then nearly instantly he
runs AT you and down into the depths between you, much faster than you can
gather slack. There he dives into deep weeds and you can feel him
throbbing through the rod, or maybe it's just the weeds in the current and
he's already broken the 6x and is gone. ?


My cousin and I coined that very description the "Silver Creek Shark
Attack"...

From my experience the end result has been the same as yours... On a couple
occasions, I have let the line go completely slack when the fish tangles
itself in the weed base, I don't know if the fish thinks it's free, however
it would free itself from the weeds and the battle would continue.

By far the most difficult and humbling place I have ever fished.

JT