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While fishing behind my house for schoolies, that is all that is ever there for the most part, I hooked into a fish way over 40 inches. I saw it three times, but with the tide running out, I could not force it through the running water. I had on 12 pound test, medium spinning rod, and was using a four inch storm shad. After getting it almost out of the fast water for the third time, a few hard head shakes, and the hook pulled free.
Dejected, I reeled in the lure, thought about the one that got away, and threw in back to the center of the bridge. The water exploded and I had a screaming drag in my hands. I tell myself over and over it had to be a big blue...... which headed out to sea, never to be seen.
Two big fish lost in a matter of minutes... enough fishing for the night... swallow to beers, and leave the rod alone until the morning.
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