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RIROCKHOUND · 05-24-2007, 06:56 AM

So..
set-up on a decent fish the other night that ended up taking zero drag. Felt weight but no runs, so I babied it in (was messing with my head that it wasn't fighting, I kept waiting for some big run)

I get it in and there is a chunk of it's back gone. between the head and dorsal, a shallow "U" shape, probably a solid 7" down the length of the fish, maybe 1.5" deep and 4: or so across the top of the fish. Looked too clean to be a shark, it almost looked man-made, but I cant think of why.

It was a clean cut, not bleeding, and starting to heal over, and it had good color, and seemed healthy other than this huge flesh wound. Swam off, but after it's lack of fight I'm not sure it would have made it.

It was the biggest chomped fish I've gotten, 36", maybe 16lbs. usually it's just schoolies that have gotten tagged by a bluefish...

anyone else (cape guys?) have similar size fish get chomped...

05-24-2007, 06:56 AM	#1
RIROCKHOUND Also known as OAK iTrader: (0) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Westlery, RI Posts: 10,408	Seal(?) Bitten bass.. So.. set-up on a decent fish the other night that ended up taking zero drag. Felt weight but no runs, so I babied it in (was messing with my head that it wasn't fighting, I kept waiting for some big run) I get it in and there is a chunk of it's back gone. between the head and dorsal, a shallow "U" shape, probably a solid 7" down the length of the fish, maybe 1.5" deep and 4: or so across the top of the fish. Looked too clean to be a shark, it almost looked man-made, but I cant think of why. It was a clean cut, not bleeding, and starting to heal over, and it had good color, and seemed healthy other than this huge flesh wound. Swam off, but after it's lack of fight I'm not sure it would have made it. It was the biggest chomped fish I've gotten, 36", maybe 16lbs. usually it's just schoolies that have gotten tagged by a bluefish... anyone else (cape guys?) have similar size fish get chomped...
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