Ohhh, Memories of last season....
Biggest fish was just under 30 lbs , eel skin jig on a west tide, but the real catch was having my friend Matt with me who had never fished (really fished) before with me catch a couple fish and see the expression on his face when I pulled the 44" fish out of the water!
Another episode that sticks out was an afternoon east tide in late Oct, about 4 pm. I had been working in Plymouth that day and was putting in all kinds of hours knowing that I was moving to Missouri in a couple weeks. It had been a ok pick for a couple days but nothing consistent or large in the am's or pm's. I had been so used to fishing skins in the night and mornings that I had forgotten about my hand tied chartuese bucktail with flashabou. I nailed two fish in the mid twenties, one 44" and one 43." Both were really bright fish and probably just passing through headed south.
My most memorable and worst feeling was the fish I lost two nights before I left for Missouri. She was a truck, no joke. I think I told the story already so I'll spare you the fishermans tale. Just to give you an idea of how much of an impact it has had on me as a wake up call; broke 50 lb specton, not leader or rock rub or poor knot. Abu Drags suck. Here is how it goes down...
1) lose lifetime fish (had on for over 5 mins, it was lifetime fish for sure) two days prior to leaving for MO.
2) Hit deer and total car on way to MO. 8500 dollars in damage not including residuals like renting U-haul towing ect.
3) tow dolly comes off back of u-haul and hit someones car. Think it might have been some punks prank because we made it to St Louis with the jeep on it and the day we were bringing it back it came off!!!
Bad things happen in threes. End of sad story,sorry for the ramble, I'm over the car but not the Fish
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