How many have you lost?

[MrHunters]

id rather not say.... :::looks down in shame:::

[justplugit]

I was fishin a cut one night with a 5in storm with a treble on the belly. Was catchin shorts and took the treble off to make for easy release with the single.
Two casts later i got a bone jarring hit that almost pulled the rod out of my hands. I panicked and instead of letting the lure lay and twitch, cranked it in at lightning speed to recast. If i had left the treble on i may of had her.
Fish had to be funnel feeding at about 30mph. Nadda a hit after that, all the schoolies got outta there quick.
Stupid mistake, but a great reminder of the power of these fish and a moment i won't forget.

[Mike P]

3 come to mind.

Back in the mid-80s, hooked a monster on an eel from the Flats in the Canal, which I couldn't even slow down (I used a heavy white fiberglass Lami, too), and which buried itself in the bottom.

Late 80s, hooked a nice fish on bait off South Beach on MV. I had two rods out, and the Hawg Hunter man also had two rods out. I had the fish in close, saw it (long, fat sucker) and then it started running over my other line (the Hawg-man had reeled his two in). It got wrapped around, and then like a jerk I tried to horse it in on a wave and the hook pulled

Early 90s, Wasque Point on MV, fishing bucktails. I had a 38# already. I hooked a nice fish, had it on for about 10 seconds, then everything went slack. My first thought was that it was a big blue and it cut the leader, which lasted until I reeled the line up and my 150# snap got hung up on the tip guide. Shone my light on it and it was bent out like a cheap coat hanger. I stopped by Coop's the next morning on my way in, told him about it, and left. A few days later I stopped by Coop's again, and he tosses me a 3 oz bucktail and asks, "Did you lose this somewhere?" I look at it, see it's one of the Hawg-man's home poured, and say, "Yup, it's one of mine. Where'd you find it--did it fall out of the back of my truck when I was here a couple of days ago?" "Grab a seat before I tell you. I took that out of the throat of a 62# bass a guy weighed in here yesterday. He got it on a white Danny plug at Squib".

[spence]

Now that is freaking amazing

-spence

[reelecstasy]

[Surfcastinglife]

fishing in rockport on sunday....put rod down to take a piss....and it leaped into the water, by the time i got to it the 30lb test ande was broken =[
rod was jammed in pretty good on a rock wedge too =[

[Shawn B]

Mike P that last one must have hurt for sure.
I'll share my latest loss from this past weekend since it is still bothering me. This fish took me by surprise a bit because we were only catching sub-legal fish before this fish hit trolling a tube and worm. When it hit it was pouring wire line out of my reel and I leave it pretty darn tight when trolling and not one of the other fish that morning had pulled any out. So once I struggle to get the pole out of the holder I'm just holding on, can't do nothing with her and she is still pouring line out and I then see all the wire go out and I'm into my dacron backing. At this point I made my first mistake (I think) and told my fishing partner to put the boat in neutral. Right after I did that the fish came up to the surface and started thrashing around, it looked huge even 100 yards behind us, then she spit the hook with a couple shakes of her head. To add a little insult to injury on my next pass I lost my lucky orange santini tube to the bottom, and we all know tubes are not created equal and this one had some good mojo or something. So in a span of 15 minutes I may have lost my biggest fish ever and I lost my lucky tube.

[Pete F.]

MikeP that's the best fish story I ever heard.

[ThrowingTimber]

OMG Mike P. Im sorry for your loss..