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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
Tonight went out to my home lake and within minutes landed a whopper of a
1/4#...I figured he was small but it was signs of what was to come. Well, it wasn't. I walked the entire lake and not even a hit..UNTIL...I was just about to leave. I was tossing a rat-l-trap and reeling it in until my reel was smoking..and then BAM! My line seemed to be going backwards. In fact, it was..my drag was coming out VERY quickly and I was watching my line in the water wave back and forth..it was crazy, I couldn't react fast enough...reeling in did nothing, pulling did nothing..all I could do is watch this guy steal what little line I had left(I know, I should've respooled before I went fishing)...and then it happened. He got away....at least he didn't get the lure. I have no idea what he was but I'm goign to assume a VERY large bass. There are no stripers here and there's nothing else in the lake that would have that kind of pull. I would've considered it being a turtle but this was a fish..very different pull. I even though maybe I speared a catfish or a carp but it wouldn't have felt like this... The fight that I lost lasted no more than 15-seconds from start to finish. During that time, my heart beat like no tomorrow and it felt like an eternity. I may have lost him, but that memory is enough to keep me fishing another ten years... In lieu of having a real picture of the fish, my wife has done this "police sketch" of what I expected it to be... http://users.snip.net/~ccericola/ima...-Depiction.jpg Christopher |
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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
Must be fishing in Loche Ness...
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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
Must be fishing in Loche Ness...
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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
Chris,
My first guess would have been a carp, just the way it took off instantly, I just caught one recently that took off like a bat out of hell and ripped off probably 50 yards of line before he finally gave up. If you snag one of them in the tail, then it is on! Chris "Christopher P. Cericola" wrote in message roups.com... Tonight went out to my home lake and within minutes landed a whopper of a 1/4#...I figured he was small but it was signs of what was to come. Well, it wasn't. I walked the entire lake and not even a hit..UNTIL...I was just about to leave. I was tossing a rat-l-trap and reeling it in until my reel was smoking..and then BAM! My line seemed to be going backwards. In fact, it was..my drag was coming out VERY quickly and I was watching my line in the water wave back and forth..it was crazy, I couldn't react fast enough...reeling in did nothing, pulling did nothing..all I could do is watch this guy steal what little line I had left(I know, I should've respooled before I went fishing)...and then it happened. He got away....at least he didn't get the lure. I have no idea what he was but I'm goign to assume a VERY large bass. There are no stripers here and there's nothing else in the lake that would have that kind of pull. I would've considered it being a turtle but this was a fish..very different pull. I even though maybe I speared a catfish or a carp but it wouldn't have felt like this... The fight that I lost lasted no more than 15-seconds from start to finish. During that time, my heart beat like no tomorrow and it felt like an eternity. I may have lost him, but that memory is enough to keep me fishing another ten years... In lieu of having a real picture of the fish, my wife has done this "police sketch" of what I expected it to be... http://users.snip.net/~ccericola/ima...-Depiction.jpg Christopher |
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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
"Chris Rennert" wrote in message . .. My first guess would have been a carp, just the way it took off instantly, I just caught one recently that took off like a bat out of hell and ripped off probably 50 yards of line before he finally gave up. If you snag one of them in the tail, then it is on! I was thinking carp but I've never known them to really strike lures let alone lures that are speeding through the lake like a bat out of hell. If anything I think I might've hit the tail, like you said. I still hold to my "police sketch". Christopher |
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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
"Chris Rennert" wrote in message . .. My first guess would have been a carp, just the way it took off instantly, I just caught one recently that took off like a bat out of hell and ripped off probably 50 yards of line before he finally gave up. If you snag one of them in the tail, then it is on! I was thinking carp but I've never known them to really strike lures let alone lures that are speeding through the lake like a bat out of hell. If anything I think I might've hit the tail, like you said. I still hold to my "police sketch". Christopher |
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The one that got away, or Why I love fishing...
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:04:00 -0400, "Christopher P. Cericola"
I was thinking carp but I've never known them to really strike lures let alone lures that are speeding through the lake like a bat out of hell. Carp will occasionally hit an artificial lure. AMOF, a couple of years ago, I landed a 27# carp which slurped in a bass-sized popping bug. What a fight on a 9 ft. fly rod with 6 lb. tippet! Happened on Reelfoot Lake. Many years ago, during a hatch of 13 year cicadas, carp in the Stones River of Middle Tennessee were sucking them off the surface. I caught them on popping bugs then too. |
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