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My fault
Beautiful night last night so we grabbed some takeout for dinner and went to a local pond in a community. People jog around it and theres lots of activity. My wife walked the dog and my kids and I brought our rods. I've never fished there but TX is like Florida and some of these ponds are loaded. Both kids had on weighless senko rubber words and after a few casts both had bass. This went on for an hour and the kids had a dozen fish. All small but chunky and healthy and beautiful coloring, pretty sure they were males. Some were guarding beds. All of a sudden there is a whoosh! and I see a big wake and tail of a big bass in a few inchies of water. I think it followed one of the baits in and took off when it saw the shore. My son casts out behind it and in a minute he was on, the fish came to the top, flared its gills and it was 5lbs easy. Huge head and shoulders. Hes cranking away and I tell him to ease up and play it out. I start to move towards him to land it and ....tunk. Fish is gone. Crap, the kids is in shock. I telll this happens all the time, nothing he could have done. I re-rig his rod and figured I'd check the drag, it was tightended all the way. Last week we were on the boat and he was hung up and I needed to break the line, it was my fault. I forgot to reset the drag. Crap, I cost him that fish. he woke up this morning and asked me when we're going back to the pond, he wants that fish
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