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A few good ones from my first few dozen striper trips:
- Backlashing a Shimano baitrunner because I set the hook without disengaging the baitrunner. As far as I know, I'm the only person to ever backlash a spinning reel.
- Using a lantern, then wondering why it took the fish 10 minutes to start biting again when I walked in front of it.
- Using 17lb test in the boulders with eels. Leaving with about 30 yards of line left on the reel and no hooks.
- Owning no waders or wading shoes. Freezing in mesh shorts and a tee shirt, and sliding on the Jamestown rocks in sneakers.
- Going kayaking in a maze of islands with only a compass at night. Couldn't find my launching point when the pea soup rolled in.
- Buying 4 of a plug that I read about on the internet, then realizing they suck.
- Wading out on Penfield Reef on an incoming tide and forgetting my flashlight (at dusk). Getting back was a blast in water up to my chest with my surf bag and rod held above my head because the current was treating the bag as a drift sock.
- Trying to fish the east wall with no gaff.
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