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07-05-2014, 04:58 PM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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Jumping (flying) Minnow
Did NOT have a good morning.  First I lost yet another (2nd in three days) battle with a large bass to the same barnacle-laden bridge piling. Thought I had this one bested but it got one last burst of energy and headed straight to the only place it could to keep swimming without me releasing her first. If anyone catches her I will take my pink sluggo back, please. 
So I decided to stop playing suicide in this tricky big-fish-holding spot and headed for the rocks where I at least could have a chance at tiring out a fish. I was delighted to see a vast display of frothy white weedless water when I arrived.  Surf was manageable. First cast with the bone jumping minnow and a 26" fish grabbed it in tight. A quick run and I had it holding on a ledge waiting for the next wave to wash it up to me when the hook came loose and shot at me like a missile, lodging into my calf. Of course I had just replaced the stock hooks with 4X VMC's so the barb was buried. I know this happens often but it took almost 40 years of fishing to happen to me. Yep, I am grateful it did not hit me in the face or eye.
So I limped back to my truck, took a call about a beach blitz that was happening elsewhere, contemplated going with the lure attached to my leg but ultimately decided to go to the ER and get chuckled at as everyone there pointed at my leg. I got lucky and got in and out in less than two hours (strokes and shortness of breath trumped my minor issue, I was told)
So tomorrow morning I will try again, with a longer and stronger leader and shin pads  |
"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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07-05-2014, 05:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 460
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OUCH
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I LOVE it when MY WIFE lets me fish
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07-05-2014, 05:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
Posts: 3,343
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Ouch is right...stuck a darter tail hook in myself several times. Every plug I own I crush the barbs on the tail hooks.
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07-05-2014, 06:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: guilford CT
Posts: 858
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I've taken hooks outta fingers, arms, necks, even heads.....(I work in an ER near the CT shoreline)
but never a leg
yet
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07-05-2014, 06:41 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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I will avenge you when I get out of work tonight spin! Gonna bring a couple of bone whites just to temp her out!
Last edited by N.ShoreFisher; 07-05-2014 at 07:34 PM..
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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07-05-2014, 07:29 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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Those vmc's are sooooo sharp!
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07-06-2014, 04:11 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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I get hooked 3-4 times per year. Barbs scare me and I crush them before a plug ever gets near water. I fish for fun and an occasional lost fish is waaaaaaaaaay worth the benefit of not worrying about getting hooked and much less downtime unhooking fish.
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07-06-2014, 05:33 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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heck you need a suit of Armour...
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07-06-2014, 06:42 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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It you play around with sharp, pointy objects long enough, you will get bitten.
I had a 4/0 in my hand with a 15# bass attached to it once out on a reef, waist deep in the surf.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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07-06-2014, 06:51 AM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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I just leave the tygon tubing hook protectors on! Works for me and still catch fish, went 2 for 2 recent canyon trip on Fishbucket.
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07-06-2014, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
I had a 4/0 in my hand with a 15# bass attached to it once out on a reef, waist deep in the surf.
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ooooo i just got a Wicked Shiver rush reading that......  |
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07-06-2014, 10:29 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Put one through the outside of my left hand right behind the second knuckle of my pinkie after I left Andy the other morning throwing a plug bug in the back of my truck. Pushed it through, crushed the bard and bscled it out. It was very minor compared to yours spin....put some AAA salve on it and ate my sandwich.
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Thanks for the pic.
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07-06-2014, 12:41 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,333
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Nice one Paul looks like you hooked a 200# er.
Nice job buddy!
On a side note glad to hear your getting into-em!
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07-06-2014, 03:30 PM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 5/0
Nice one Paul looks like you hooked a 200# er.
Nice job buddy!
On a side note glad to hear your getting into-em!
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That was easily 220 Bob, give or take an ounce! Getting into a few yes, landing them has been a whole different story |
"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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07-07-2014, 09:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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The jumpin minnow always catches.
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07-07-2014, 03:34 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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ouch man! glad you are finding some fish but damn that is a hellava way to pay for it!
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07-08-2014, 10:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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Seems like you're not a real fisherman if you haven't been on the biting end of a good hook story.
I've been lucky enough that all of mine have been freshwater hooks, but the experience teaches you to respect your tackle all the same.
Glad it wasn't a truly serious impalement.
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I am a legend in my own mind! 
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07-08-2014, 02:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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So did you weigh it after it got released LOL
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