I was spooled bu a CG Zodiac in the canal. He was traveling so fast I couldn't recover my line fast enough. I was near the Herring Run and he was on the Muscle bed and he picked me up - I was using a 5 ounce crippled herring on 65 pound power pro. I will bet that screwed up his screw! They travel so damn fast when using that boat and also so close to shore. I often wonder if they do so on purpose.:smash:

several times. Twice last year in the same night! (I think I posted something about it here http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...one-night.html ) After thinking about it all summer, I must have had a coupld seals...but they felt like giant bass but no bass could pull like that for that long, no way. Had to be a seal, a large shark or a ray of some kind. Both were big and were no match for 50# surf gear, and I put the boots to that second fish too, the reel was hot when it was all over.
One thing, it is very hard to go to sleep after something like that happens, you are really pumped up.

tuna fishing...down to the knot...wrapped line around the spool during a lull in the fight and ended up landing the blue fin...foul hooked in the dorsal fin...130lbs...

Twice Spooled
 

The first time was fishing a sandy Long Island beach near an inlet. It was a night and we were catching 4 - 6 lb weakfish on med. sized tackle. I hooked something on a small plastic bait and it just kept going and going. No head shakes, just a slow steady pull. It would pause every once in a while and then continue. We figured it must have been one of those jumbo rays that come in every summer. Eventually, I just held the spool tight to span the line or all the line would have disappeared.

Second time was from a gut trolling Moriched inlet as I worked the tip with a bucktail. Once again, my line just kept going.

Once,traveling North bound on 495 :smash:

Had a 50 get spanked by a monster tuna. We just watched and smiled. When the fish smashed the bait it wasn't a cookie cutter and it wanted to run towards bear seamount and it did. I have never seen line peel off like that even when I hooked that Grady-White.

My rookie season. I was at the end of a breachway (alone in the middle of the night), and wasn't having any luck so I decided to go for an extra long drift. When I checked my spool I noticed that all 300yrds of my braid was out and I was looking at a bare spool (no backing)! Thank God no one was there as it took a few minutes to get the line to bite on the bare spool. One of the few times I prayed to NOT catch anything. The other was when my bail fell off into my hand after a full cast with a needle. Hand over handed the line back in, luckily no fish. I wouldn't reccomend handlining with braid!

Me and buddy were trolling wire for blues a couple of summers ago only a mile or two off shore. I look back and see some fish jumping near the lures. As soon as I said "Look at That". ZZZZZZZZZZZZ, and my rod goes down hard, the tip nearly hit the gunnel. I had all I could to pull it from the rod holder. A few seconds went by with a steady hard pull. Then it took off like I was hooked to a train. Shimano TLDs don't hold much wire and it just started screaming. I tried to tighten the drag but there was no stopping this fish. We just watched the line melt off the spool to the backing.......then PING !!! All over.

That was the day I got the TUNA bug......

Twice.... once by what I presumed was a BFT that happend to join a day break bass blitz.... it took less time to empty my cabo PT 40 of 15lb test than it takes to start the damn boat...

The second time... some moron insisted on trolling accross my stern as I stemmed the out going tide in the mouth of the Mac..despite my gesturing and protest he persited only 25-30 feet astern. crossing at a 90 degree angle....he got( I gave him) all 200'of monel wire and about 50yds of backing before his engine quit and he drifted off into the night.......

Aram-Maybe its worse to be spooled- you can always get another slammer but if you feel you lost the fish of a lifetime that would suck and stay with you a long time. But I was very unhappy.

I caught a 51" inch Striper off a sandwich beach one nite a few years ago. I was bait fishing. A newell 332 spooled with 40 pound big game. The fish took me almost to my backing. I put my thumb on the spool to slow it down and ended up with a blister on the tip of my thumb. The fish was a real racer....it only weighted 39 pounds....It looked like a wahoo with bass stripes.....It's fins were in perfect shape.....like it spent all its time in deep water and never grubbed on the bottom.....I have caught alot of stripers but never a fish like that one......

last year while shark fishing I hooked into a monster shark...that I dont think was a brown. Fish went straight out and never stopped....420 yards of 60lb power pro.....My reels was smoking, and it was hot even with my skinz gloves on. There was nothing I could do...it just ran till i ran out of line and then snap......im thinking a big bull, lemon or white...it was on a 1lb chunk of eel on a 12' bendor rated for 16oz

Ya, They come up on you so quick in those things it's scary and they power those things with honda(japanese) outboards. U.S. Naval vessels powered by motors from the land of the rising sun.......Even today...... That just ain't right.......

Yes! I got home from a fishing trip and forgot to take a pole out of the rod holder at the ramp, the line got stuck on a low branch and all the line ran out. I live a couple of blocks from the ramp so I could the line down the road. Sooooo I popped a cold one, got a stick and started a walkin and a wrappin, I was spooled!--LOUIE

It looks like a bunch of fell victim to those trees that eat fishing line and kites! I was spooled by one also. Just got to remember to take the poles out of the hoders!----LOUIE