What luck:-) - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

S-Journey · 07-22-2004, 10:28 AM

About a month ago I was surfcasting a beach down on the south shore of Mass. I bought a new plug down at Redtop the day before and decided to try it out. I took the first cast of the day with the new swimmer and "POP" the damn braid snagged and I watched my plug float away. Man was I upset, it was the first swimmer I owned and at 18.00$ a piece I was not going to be buying another one anytime soon(spending all fishing $ on boat).

Well, heres the interesting part....

I came home this past Sat from fishing and the plug was sitting on the kitchen table!!! It still had my leader and braid attached and I could tell without a shadow of a doubt it was mine. I was absolutly shocked. I asked my wife where it came from and she told me that my mother in law took a walk on the beach and found my plug attached to a lobster trap that had washed up over a mile away from where I lost it on a very busy beach, and it was over a month later!

What luck, this ever happen to anyone else-- Any stories?

striprman · 07-22-2004, 10:35 AM

I think the likelyhood of having something like that happen is about the same as me catching a 80 pounder.

S-Journey · 07-22-2004, 10:39 AM

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Originally posted by striprman
I think the likelyhood of having something like that happen is about the same as me catching a 80 pounder.

I hope the 80 pound striper is next! :-)

irishcurse · 07-22-2004, 10:43 AM

I lost a bunker spoon and 100yds of wire a few summers ago. That fall fishing the same area w/ an umbrella rig I hooked a clump of weed attached to a giant rats nest of wire and my spoon(recognized my knots & swivel). There were a bunch of draggers in the area. I figure they dragged it up, and I hooked it before it got all the way back down.
Tom

striprman · 07-22-2004, 10:48 AM

I have a friend that scuba dives, he has given me some lures, kastmasters, tubes, sinkers and hooks that he has found on various snags and lobster pots. Never got any of my lost lures back though. I wonder where all the lures that might be "snapped off" in the canal end up getting washed up. I've found a few lures on Gooseberry island in the seaweed, most all had rusted out hooks and were covered with barnicles.

Surfcastinglife · 07-22-2004, 11:02 AM

im headin back to humarok this weekend to see if the top half of my penn slammer washed ashore =D

S-Journey · 07-22-2004, 11:06 AM

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Originally posted by Surfcastinglife
im headin back to humarok this weekend to see if the top half of my penn slammer washed ashore =D

Humarock

Thats where my plug was lost, and found

I'll keep my eyes open, you never know

Slingah · 07-22-2004, 02:16 PM

wow....good story
fish that thing!!!!!

Jigman · 07-22-2004, 02:24 PM

If you love your plugs, set them free. If they love you, they'll come back

Jigman

S-Journey · 07-22-2004, 02:24 PM

Slingah, I think I was complain about losing that when we went out a while back:-)

Rappin Mikey · 07-22-2004, 02:27 PM

I was fishing the river this year and noticed a long piece of yellow Stren braid floating down the river. I had brought a friend and was letting him use one of my outfits that was rigged with this same line. Anyway, he was tired and had set the rod down and came to talk with me. Thats when I saw it and I snagged the line with my bassassassin thinking the rod I had let him borrow somehow had fallen in. Well it wasn't, when I pulled the slack, it pulled back. Anyway 5 minutes later I had landed a 15lb shad. Later that morning I landed my biggest fish of the year (from that river that is).

bart · 07-22-2004, 02:36 PM

last year i was fishing the fall blitz in gansett and lost a yo-zuri swimmer to a big blue. i fished the rest of the day then headed back to my car and found it washed up on shore. it could've been someone else's but i doubt it.

afterhours · 07-22-2004, 02:40 PM

s-journey, riding this kind of karma, you should be out fishing 24/7!!!

KJLane · 07-22-2004, 04:26 PM

What luck S-Journey! Time to give that plug another try...

This spring, I was into a big school of bass jigging wire in quicks hole. We were jigging deep with just about three hundred feet of wire out. Towards the end of the morning one of my buddies had a solid hook up. A couple seconds into the battle, the knot snaps where the backing is connected to the wire and we lose the rig.

We head out to fish the same area the following day and hook up as soon as the lines are in the water. My buddy works his fish toward the boat when suddenly it shoulders up and we can't move it. I'm forced to turn the boat and run back at the fish to gain line. With a lot of force we slowly move the fish off the bottom. As we reach the leader, two twenty-five pound stripers appear on the end of the line.

The fish we hooked managed to cross the rig we lost the day before. Eventually that fish got caught on the prior fish (still hooked) and we had been hauling up fifty pounds worth of bass, along with 300 feet of wire off the bottom. The bass from the day before was still alive (but exhausted). We kept that bass and let the green bass go. I still can't get over the coincidence though.

striprman · 07-22-2004, 04:38 PM

I went on a cod trip, jigging in about 200 foot and a guy down a couple spots from me hooked a nice fish on a 17 ounce cod jig. He cranked it about half way in and then, well he had nothing. He cranked in his line and the jig was gone, broke off at the leader. Well I kept on jigging and set on a good fish, thought it was a decent cod. Got it up to the surface and into the boat. Not a cod but a 25 pound wolf fish. Had a second jig firmly implanted in its jaw. I gave him back the jig and kept the big old ugly wolf fish, nice fillet.

macojoe · 07-22-2004, 06:02 PM

I was fluking last year when I got broke off after hooking in to one. 5 hours later I caught another fluke and guess what he had the first rig in his mouth!! Same fish hit twice in the same day!!

new jack · 07-22-2004, 06:03 PM

A few years back when my uncle had his boat, we were trolling just outside the mouth of the north river. One of rods snags something. When we get it in, attached to umbrella rig is a bunch of line (birdsnest), we notice that there was still a bunch of line in the water, so my uncle hauls the rest of line and brings up a juck rod with a penn 450ss attached. The person must have lost it that morning cause the reel worked fine. Kept the reel and junked the rod.

S-Journey · 07-23-2004, 09:04 AM

Wow, very cool!

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Originally posted by KJLane
What luck S-Journey! Time to give that plug another try...

This spring, I was into a big school of bass jigging wire in quicks hole. We were jigging deep with just about three hundred feet of wire out. Towards the end of the morning one of my buddies had a solid hook up. A couple seconds into the battle, the knot snaps where the backing is connected to the wire and we lose the rig.

We head out to fish the same area the following day and hook up as soon as the lines are in the water. My buddy works his fish toward the boat when suddenly it shoulders up and we can't move it. I'm forced to turn the boat and run back at the fish to gain line. With a lot of force we slowly move the fish off the bottom. As we reach the leader, two twenty-five pound stripers appear on the end of the line.

The fish we hooked managed to cross the rig we lost the day before. Eventually that fish got caught on the prior fish (still hooked) and we had been hauling up fifty pounds worth of bass, along with 300 feet of wire off the bottom. The bass from the day before was still alive (but exhausted). We kept that bass and let the green bass go. I still can't get over the coincidence though.

S-Journey · 07-23-2004, 09:05 AM

Unreal! I guess he didn't learn his lesson the first time:-)

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Originally posted by macojoe
I was fluking last year when I got broke off after hooking in to one. 5 hours later I caught another fluke and guess what he had the first rig in his mouth!! Same fish hit twice in the same day!!

schoolie monster · 07-23-2004, 09:08 AM

My wife finds plugs in the surf every year when we go to Nantucket, but none were ours.

A couple years ago I was flyfishing an estuary and lost my fly on a backcast in some heavy grass. It was when I just started flyfishing the salt, so I had like 3 flies... so I spent 20 minutes or more searching for it. No dice.

3 weeks later I was back at the spot and was just walkin' out to my casting spot and I see the fly sittin' there on a big blade of grass. The area is flooded at high tide, so I was surprised it was still there.

Whoohoo... the fly has never produced a fish, but I figure its a lucky fly anyway.