[S-Journey]

Wow, very cool!

Originally posted by KJLane
What luck S-Journey! Time to give that plug another try...

This spring, I was into a big school of bass jigging wire in quicks hole. We were jigging deep with just about three hundred feet of wire out. Towards the end of the morning one of my buddies had a solid hook up. A couple seconds into the battle, the knot snaps where the backing is connected to the wire and we lose the rig.

We head out to fish the same area the following day and hook up as soon as the lines are in the water. My buddy works his fish toward the boat when suddenly it shoulders up and we can't move it. I'm forced to turn the boat and run back at the fish to gain line. With a lot of force we slowly move the fish off the bottom. As we reach the leader, two twenty-five pound stripers appear on the end of the line.

The fish we hooked managed to cross the rig we lost the day before. Eventually that fish got caught on the prior fish (still hooked) and we had been hauling up fifty pounds worth of bass, along with 300 feet of wire off the bottom. The bass from the day before was still alive (but exhausted). We kept that bass and let the green bass go. I still can't get over the coincidence though.