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Swallowing My Pride
This is a fishing story! Saturday morning we went out to the mouth of the Piscataqua River. The tide was still going out and the winds were blowing across river from Maine to New Hampshire. We chummed and caught some Macs and put them into my live well. Then we tried drifting and live lining but the winds were against us so we tried to anchor. Finding a spot to anchor, away from the lobster pots, where the anchor would stick was taugh. Finally hooked the anchor and set the Macs out. My two fishing partners are novices so I opted for live lining on a bobber and they didn't. Suddenly we had a fish on a novice line. He faught the fish well, I put my rod in a rod holder to assist him. We landed his fish, THEN I heard a bang, turned around in time to see my Rod, Reel and Rod Holder going for a swim. Snapped that rod holder off right at the rail mount. We pulled anchor and found my bobber but by that time it was tangled in the lobster pots so all I retrieved was the bobber.
Now, this was a good casting reel I had just changed over to Braided line. I had no problems with backlash with mono before the change but afterwards I had several. I thought I had them all cleared. My drag wasn't tight so I must have had another backlash knot. Never saw anything other then the Rod, Reel and Rod Holder going for a swim.
My Rod Holders were black plastic purchased from Bass Pro Shop in the early 90's so were probably brittle. They'll be replaced.
I guess there was more then two novices on the boat that day. $160 Rod and Reel.
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