Eben:

Great tale and thanks for sharing it with us.

Bringing my plug in one night, I got a hit that that nearly pulled me overboard. I had to grab my leaning post and my rod about a foot above the handle just to try to slow it down. As she dived streight down near the back of the boat. I thought for that one moment, this is it, until my motor came to a screeching halt.
It was the prop of a life time.
Later, L

Pilgrim , it takes a real man to tell a story like that.We're all proud of ya.:kewl:

Nightmares for the rest of the year, if you had not "landed" it.

lol,lol,lol.
Those bath mats are definite fighters. They beat a bass anyday.
Where you using a jig, or one of those Storm shad's.
Good Job anyway.:poke:

great story thank for sharing it with us pal. :btu:

Back in the day when I was Chartering on Lake Ontario. We always had a customer who would nod off at the end of the day when things slowed up. So I kept a small 2 Gallon bucket in the boat. I would slow the boat down attach the bucket to one of the downriggers and tighten the release way down. The rest of the party would wake up their resting partner. I would goose the gas and the rod would violently release and start screaming line off the reel. The poor sap would fight like hell only to find his buddies were filming him and taking pictures. Man was it funny when the bucket came into view, everyone laughing on the floor. :laugha: :laugha:

:tooth: We did that to a couple of guys back in the 80's when I was tuna fishing. We used a 5 gallon bucket though. Each time I saw the bucket getting close I'd signal the captain and he'd gas it a little sending the bucket out another 60 yds or so. After 4 or 5 times we'd let him reel it in. Well with the fisher sitting in the chair he couldn't see directly below the transon so I'd lean over to gaff it. The expression was priceless when I pulled the bucket over the gunwale.:laugha: :laugha:

great story........dont feel bad nebe i had something like that happen to me too. Fishing right after a storm, might have been close to where you had your incident, turned out to be a canvas cover that came off a T-top.

Go back and post a pic of you with your trophy......that's front page mat'l :rotf2:

Eben,
You need to head back down,find it,bring it back and melt it down into a few of your special EEl's ,
Talk about all the mojo when you catch that 50lber on a melted down bath mat ,now a Nebe Batheel ,complete with some old athlete foot smelly toe jam :grins:
VB

Nice..I was wondering why u called i was takin a nap for the night's fun..
Sounds like u floored em..

Actually, you were there right after it happened. it happened on the side you were on, but when you showed up, i had moved over to the other side..


T-orlando is right- thank god i landed it :hihi:

Great story and great read to get my day started :thanks:

great story!!!
I've had weed take some serious line a few times, it's especially annoying when you first think it's weed, but then it starts acting a little weird, so you think it could be a fish, and you kind of have a battle with your mind, until you reel that weed up onto shore!

WTH you should have came and got me.......i would've talken the pic (after i stopped laughing)......look at salt he looked pretty happy in his pic. :rollem:

strange hook ups
 

As a boy, fishing from a boat in a bay in eastern Long Island, I hooked a cow. Not a big bass but a real cow. This cow was dead and bleached out a pale white. I thought I had a record fish and started the boat and got up to it boatside and saw the pale bovine. What a let down. It was huge though...several hundred #s.

Mr Sandman!!!
What a funny story!!!
I'm laughing my a## off!!!
HOLY COW!!!!!
:jump:

bump.. for another good story :)

A great story and a great thread
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Mr sandman is a mystical dude that come and gone as life phases change. I Got to fish with him on his boat for one of the the first ever tog fests here. That was some 15 yrs ago. Since then I have fished many many a boat from boot size to the big dogs, go nauseating fast to slow and steady wins the race and I have to say that mirage he had was the most sickest awesomest practical all-in-one boat that I still have ever been on. Wish I got to go on more adventures with the sand man before life took him onto other distractions cause he was one cool dude
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Jim was a good dude ; )

Got a chance to fish with him out on Wasque during the Derby 15 years ago

Thanks Nebe,,,, I wrapped the boat today and now don’t feel so bad… great story…