Heart Pounding
 

When I am working a pencil popper and a large fish takes a few swipes at it, or is just cruising behind it.

believe it or not....

that is Ernest Hemmingway

Catching fish on top. I've seen the aliens off of Race Point too.

Hemingway
 

He did like his guns didn't he!

Two years ago I was schoolie fishing down under a bridge with an ultralight. I hooked a schoolie and as he surfaced within a couple of feet from me up along side of it, came a monster cow. I didn't know if it was his big brother, looking to protect him or thinking that he was an easy snack. I felt totally out gunned and left. I returned later that night with mojo gear and the night after that and the night after that... nada. Still haunts me.

The sight of busting fish in casting distance of my fly rod!!

This usually does it for me :drool:

But as far a fishing goes, catching on top water. Or watching my kids catch fish.

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The best is being in the middle of a huge blitz of stripers and bluefish!!!
Can't unhook and catch another one fast enough!!!
Also, fishing Plum Island from the surf on a cool, foggy nite with no one else around!!! Then you feel someone is watching you and you see something in the fog, or is it just your imagination? Scary!!!

Cal dude excellent taste! :claps:


yeah I'm a hook up junky as well, it can be a live bait or a lure, its the anticipation of that initial run for me that gets me psyched!!

Standing on an open beach watching the birds, bait and fish coming your way...

On the rocks all night doing squat until the rip suddenly forms, the false dawn breaks the horizon, the planets align and it's pure striper mayhem for the next hour. This is usually the time when I get a wind knot or some other tackle failure.

Catching fish with a chosen plug and no one else near you is hooked up...

swimming back after retreving your plug,,, because the line snapped due to a overrun birds nest line malfunction on your calcutta,,,knowing how much that damm plug cost,,,

I don't care what you all say and think I still say a nice pair of boobs beats a fish anyday.

Seeing breaking fish and throwing top water...When a fish hits your eel and you know it has to be somethng large...jigging at the canl and getting a monster hit, that is not sea weed or kelp.... In Ptown it does get kind of spooky when the fog rollls in, and you are by yourself on the beach

Sight casting to pre-spawn smallies.