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redlite · 03-01-2004, 06:37 PM

I have one fish that still haunts me every night. I have lost a lot of good fish over the years (all 50 lbers, of course), mostly to user error and learning inexperience (too tight drag, bad line, bad knots, trying to horse fish in.) The ONLY one that haunts me happened last year, but it truly wasn't my fault, which makes it all that bitter. We had been absolutely pounding 30LB + fish for 2 nights on both tides at this particular beach. The 2nd night, some how someone found out and the word got out. I had already landed several high 30 lb. fish this night and 1 40. My buddy had 3 +40 lbers. I hooked into a fish that I fought for over 30 minutes. I was more than half way through my spool (about 200 yds 30# Fireline) when some knuckle head runs down to the waters edge and casted right over my line while I was fighting this fish. Well, 15 minutes of Fireline Abraiding Fireline and that was the end of the story. I SWEAR that fish had to have been around 50, because I just couldn't gain much on it. I sat down and wanted to cry, of course that was following my unleashing the entire truck driver dictionary on the kid.

03-01-2004, 06:37 PM	#30
redlite Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Kingston, Ma Posts: 2,294	I have one fish that still haunts me every night. I have lost a lot of good fish over the years (all 50 lbers, of course), mostly to user error and learning inexperience (too tight drag, bad line, bad knots, trying to horse fish in.) The ONLY one that haunts me happened last year, but it truly wasn't my fault, which makes it all that bitter. We had been absolutely pounding 30LB + fish for 2 nights on both tides at this particular beach. The 2nd night, some how someone found out and the word got out. I had already landed several high 30 lb. fish this night and 1 40. My buddy had 3 +40 lbers. I hooked into a fish that I fought for over 30 minutes. I was more than half way through my spool (about 200 yds 30# Fireline) when some knuckle head runs down to the waters edge and casted right over my line while I was fighting this fish. Well, 15 minutes of Fireline Abraiding Fireline and that was the end of the story. I SWEAR that fish had to have been around 50, because I just couldn't gain much on it. I sat down and wanted to cry, of course that was following my unleashing the entire truck driver dictionary on the kid.