By a frigging goose!!!!!!
Last stage of dusk, plugging a favorite reef of mine. Fish breaking outside, so I clip on an Afterhours Junior, which casts a ton, and is a favorite of mine for dusk topwater in the fall. I reel back with my 1088 and am just commiting to casting forward, when I hear Canadian geese honking, very close! They came from behind me, left to right, and were LOW.... As I released my finger from the braid, casting full, I see them pass in the flightline of the launched Junior. I get that uh-oh feeling, and waited, and then went to put the braid in the roller of the VS, assuming I had missed them. But no.... The braid began to burn through my fingers, flying off the spool at a rate I had never witnessed shorefishing. Unfortunately, I had not gotten the line in the roller, even with a leather finger guard. All I could do was watch the line disappear and wait for the bitter end break. And then it went slack, with maybe ten turns left on the reel. So I start reeling in. Nothing. Crank a little drag. Still nothing. So now I crank it down as far as I ever have, and it's a ten minute battle to get a couple feet here and there. Hell, I thought the damn goose had taken it up over the rocks where bait guys were fishing, and that they were trying to hold on to their heavenly acquired AF Jr!!!! At this point, the braid and plug were totally encased in chitloads of weed. In the end, I got about 150 yds of my new PP 50# back (out of +300) and ended up losing the last Junior I got from Don at the RISSA show.
So you guys who fish the Castle, if you poke around the weed piles, you might get lucky... What I wonder about is; where did it get wrapped around the bird? Did the braid burn through its feathers? Given the rate of speed I was losing line, did the plug get lifted out of the water, and where did it ultimately land, before I started reeling in????
I need to get a spare vs200 spool......
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