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It happens....I'll share my experience this year,
It was Wensday July 14th, 2004.. started out the night with a 15-20mph wind out of the SW, and a little light in the sky about 915pm I'm out on my rock...Very first cast on an eel and I land a bass 30lbs on the nose. Within the next hour and a half I landed 9 Bass, 20lbs,20lbs,23lbs,24lbs, and 35lbs, the rest were in the teens. as the tide dropped the bite died out, not a touch for the next half hour. I leave the spot and fish a stretch of beach I do pretty well on. I get nothing but low to mid teen fish. By 300am I end up with exactly 22bass, including the fish mentioned earlier. It is near slack and I want to hit the rock where I had the bigger fish earlier in the night on the oppisite tide. I am there, 340 am and start casting for the next hour or so without a touch, it is now well past dawn, light as could be, clear sky, wind is out of the SW however it has diminished substantially. At about 440am the first hit slams me and makes an unbelievable run, the power is awesome. After several minutes I'm gaining on the fish, it makes alast effort, sounds and pops me off. I reel in and examine my leader, it broke 60lb floro and it was my fault from being lazy. I had 22 fish that night on the same hook and leader, I felt it was getting a bit freyed above the hook and was actually thinking of changing it earlier in the night. I didn't and it cost me a monster Bass, one that you couldn't even compare to the other fish. Made the 30 and 35lb bass look like a dink! I was so pissed and upset. I had several pre made leaders and rerigged without much motivation. First cast, next cast and Bamm! I'm on agian, this fish is smoking, makes a blistering run, even comes up top with a big explosion. The wieght of the fish is compariblt to the previous fish. It sounds, I feel her take me into the rocks and the leader breaks, agian 60lb Floro. I reel in, quickly change to a 80lb Floro and I cast back out...Within a few casts I'm on agian!!! Within a few minutes I am broken of agian...Same thing, fish took me deep and broke me off. To make a long story short, I hooked five of these beasts and couldn't land one! First two broke 60lb Floro, next two broke 80lb Floro, and the fifth broke the running line. After the fifth I was out of eels and all done. I never, ever had an experience like this. I can count on one hand how many times I have gotten broken of in the last few years by a big fish, I am lucky to hit one fish a year that does this. This time I had FIVE Chances in a early morning bite and couldn't land one. A pod of fish that were fish of a lifetime moved in with the tide and I was there. I don't think there was anything I could have done to land these fish, my best chance was the first one....No it may take me several more year to find a pod of fish like this, maybe never. Unbelievable!
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