On many occassions, can't say they were the biggest, but the one that stands out the most ... and not sure if it's actually an issue of the one that got away, but rather one that was caught at least two times before ...
... in Western LIS, I was live lining a pogie or bunker ... pulled up a schoolie bass, not huge but a little better than 15 pounds, she had three lines coming out of her mouth ... the first one, which was mono, was mine ... the other two were wire leaders cut at the mono, with large bait hooks attached down her gullet ... she looked a bit like a catfish ... but, as she was able to eat my bait fish with the two hooks coming out of her mouth, I tried to cut the leaders down more but didn't want to try to wrestle the hooks out, for concern of causing more damage ... she swam away strong and hope she was able to recover ...
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