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Originally Posted by Billybob
I never caught a big tog, keepers but nothing big.
Last week I had one that slammed it, bent the rod right under the boat.
I had him halfway up, and then he came unbuttoned.
Kicking myself for not giving it a few more pulls to set that hook.
Would loved to at least seen it.
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I have lost a few tog that i would have loved to see. You know when they are monsters.
I literally couldn't sleep the night i lost a monster on block. Using a bottle plug just before sunrise i hooked into something huge. Fought it for a few minutes and could barely move it, just kept going out. Pop, straightened out a brand new VMC Siwash. All day and that night laying in bed i ran through the whole episode and thought about how i fought the fish vowing to not lose again. Next morning same time, same place, same plug this time with a teaser. Cast, hook up, its on again. This time i am prepared since i thought about it for about 24 hours. I was getting worried since it was going down the same way as the day before. I try thumping the rod butt to irritate the fish, POP. Reeled in, this time the teaser hook looked like a piece of scrap metal. To this day i still think of that fish, don't know what it was. Maybe the Striper of a lifetime, maybe a big ray. My buddy caught about a 200 pound ray on the island about 25 years ago so that is a possibility. I was at that spot every morning for the week before sunrise hoping for a third shot, never happened. Still hit the same spot with the same plug every trip hoping for revenge.