Till we meet again........
 

You hit like a freight train, peeling drag as if I was hooked to the bumper of a Chevy truck doing 40 miles an hour! I turned you around and got your head up......you were deep.....I gained line....again you took it! I could feel you down there.....rubbing, trying to free yourself! I kept gaining.....then you were there 30 feet out, you finally surfaced......in my head you were chowder for the weekend! High 30's.....maybe 40 pounds from what I could see.....then you turned with a thrash.....and......"SNAP"!!!!! That whiplash snapping sound mono makes when it breaks under stress.......you were free! Fish 1 - Fisherman zero! Till we meet again my worthy opponent......till we meet again!:uhuh:

Oh.....if anyone finds a 3 oz. Perch pattern pencil popper attached to a nice striper.....keep the plug.....I just want the fish back!:bc:

Sounds like you dropped a really nice fish :devil2:

-spence

:smash: :fishin:

Yes sir.....she was a beauty! They say "what does not kill us makes us stronger"......also perhaps a bit wiser? My guess is next time she does not fare so well.......I hope its soon! I think her rubbing on the bottom put a nick in the line above the leader.......I wish I could have tired her a bit more but she was rubbing and I knew it so I had to get her off the bottom......almost got her......almost......almost!:fury:

You remember me asking if you had caught anything on a perch pattern last week? Do you? I was fishing with the two oz. pencil, and nothing, but I had grteat expectations for it when fish were around. Going tonight myself.

It was OD Mike or GregW said to me the other day...."anything green or parrot"......not a color I throw first out of the bag but I had that new "Double shot" in Perch in my bag so on she went! I have 2 more.....going next time!

Or you dropped your rod tip, had too lose a drag, tied crappy knots :jump1:

Then again, perhaps I'm not the one to talk :soon:

-spence

No question....I did everything right......I just lost. Drag was good, knots were good, no doubt it was a rub on the bottom compromised the line. Like I said would like to have worn her out a bit more but knew she had me on the bottom.

You trying to pick the scab Spence?:rotf2: Its all good.....it was fun though a bit disappointing.:)

your drag was too tight.. ;)

Were you in the Yak? Or the Surf?

So there are fish in the canal.

Get her next time.

Surf.:fishin:

Bummer Larry, you still did better than us though.
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Your drag was too loose :grins:

As heartbreaking as that can be, I find those events just as memorable (albeit less enjoyable) as actually landing the fish! Your pencils rock!
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my question too
 

but from a different angle...

not trying to split hairs here but

just wonderin if that Bass would've been able to
snap the line as easy had you been in the Hobie
offering resistance with a little more give....
because you were floating as apposed to standing.

Tail hooked schoolie

Next month it will be a new world record lost :)
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Sounds like college :rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

-spence

NO!

That's why it's fishin not catchin

I feel your pain. I'm a three time loser :( . You'll get her next time, or the time after that or the time aft............it never ends.
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Your way too sporting fishing mono in the canal ,,, Time to switch to braid ..

Braid would not have given me any chance.....it would have just parted on the rub. I will stick with the mono!:uhuh:

I know the feeling Larry. Next time, my friend. There's always a next time!

Larry, we all have gone thru it. I have the metal lip and hook from a plug on which a fish did the same thing. Straightened a 3X 3/0 VMC treble and completely bent a metal lip flat banging it on the reef. That is why they get big....because they are smart.

I think it is better to see what you've lost than not too see and always wonder how big she really was!!!!!

Oh that hurts. LOL Nice to know they like the plug greater to land it.

Man, I feel your pain. 4 days ago, during the north-east blow, I hooked and fought a fish over 48" and lost her during the landing, all because I didnt have a set spot to land. While I was making my way down to get her, she completly exhausted and laying flat in a spot 5 ft from me, the hook slipped out and the next wave she was gone. I was/am completly devastated as I have 12 out of the last 14 days in the surf and this was complete inexcusable error on my part. Was she a 50? I will never know but will say I think she was fatter/bigger than the 48 I got last year. Someone commeted thats its best not to know and have them break-off in the fight.....I would rather that have happened than actually see the thing with my own two eyes for 10 seconds. I re-run this in my mind over and over and still cant believe I let this fish slip away....completly devastated.

Keeps ya comin back. :hihi:

Does a very Large dorsal fin and a massive V-wake count? :grins:

Larry, that's why they make booze.
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Yep ... agree with Doc ... that's fishing and it will happen more than once for one reason or another ...

curious,
what type of line were you using that broke (braid or mono)?

sorry for your loss. that stinks

For a big
 

guy to lose a nice fish like you did,only proves that it takes more then strenght to get big momma from her domain.

The use of braid over mono or mono over braid will always leave a question in your mind, what if I had the other on?

Both have advantages and disadvantages when fighting a large fish.

The location one fishes at times will dictate which is better.

When a fish takes a plug and decides to bottom out , especially in the Cape Cod Canal, it happens so fast that all one can do is hold on and say a silent prayer. In ther majority of cases over the years the fish wins the battle, but some get lucky if they can stop the fish before it hits the bottom.

Experience has taught me if you know and can judge the fish to be of size then allow the fish to swim under some pressure, but give it line.
The fish will be less apt to go to the bottom, in an attempt to get the plug out, by rubbing the bottom. Let your rod pressure decide how much pressure to exert.

Over the years I have been fortuned to be lifted from my perch,[I am not a small person by any means] by some rather large fish, when they hooked onto my plugs. I am still waiting to actually land one. Each has been an experience in itself, yet you hope you learn enough for the next time.

One will have another opportunity and the anticipation never goes away and for me that is one reason I still fish, it is all about the unknown large that swims beneath the waters and is it your time to be lucky enough to have it strike your offering.

Not much to learn from this one "Singin"......I played the fish as I should. Usually in retrospect one might find there was something they should have or could have done different......in this case I feel I did all I could do.....and I have no second thought on the mono vs braid debate......I use mono and I like it.....end of story. Live by the sword and die by the sword. Some days you get the bear...and some days the bear gets you!:)

sorry you lost a nice one Larry. I lost a nice one this year, on the yak though, but the hook came undone.
I totally agree with you on the mono front, I could feel the mono rubbing against the rocks, but it stayed strong! The fish was just able to rub the hook out in my case because it made such a strong series of runs I couldn't stop it from getting into the rocks.
I also agree about the retrospective look at it, you win some you lose some, that's fishing! Analyzing it will drive you nuts!

you suck:bshake:

It was all a dream :wavey:

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oh man ...... busted out laughin

thanks PROFESSOR! .... made my day....

that's what I'm here for C.

I am sure Lawrence will have a different opinion.:fury:

What eves.....no bother me.:)