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Old 09-19-2011, 03:38 PM   #1
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What are the odds of this?

I am out fishing eels alone with no one else anywhere nearby. I’m into a decent pick of fish, getting a fish on average every 10-15 minutes, usually 20-25 lbs, with a few larger ones mixed in. On what would have been my fifth fish, I feel the hit, set the hook, fish pulls some drag and comes off. The eel has more water resistance than usual, so I assume that I hooked the eel on the hookset and reel in quickly. Turns out that I hooked another eel when I set the hook (my eel still hooked in the mouth, and a second eel hooked through the side). The eel that I hooked had a hook hole in its jaw. I had lost one eel earlier while fighting a fish, but was still on my second eel at the time. The only thing I can think of, since bass pretty much suck down eels in an instant, is that the eel I was fishing and the eel I had lost about a ½ hour before happened to be swimming almost right next to each other and were taken down by the same fish at the same time. What are the odds of that? Just thought I’d share.

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