She had her way with me and I can't stop thinking about it

[Zeal]

It'll make you wiser for when grandma dearest shows up!

Waiting to have a moment like that with a Striper, but had similar instances with Bluefish (made that thread awhile ago and it still haunts me), Fluke, Weakfish (you read that right, I was a kid and had one of those long shank snapper hooks and the sheer force of the hit bent the cheap POS), and Trout.

Now you are less lazy and if you get into that mood, you'll be forever paranoid and set to overkill on tackle.

Post your 70 soon

[piemma]

Mikey, you will remember it forever. I remember mine. Black Point 2 AM on a full moon and dead calm. Had her for maybe 3 or 4 minutes then.....nothing. Plug came back with the lip all bent up and 2 out of 3 of the tines on a VMC 3/0 4X straightened.

The date July 5th 1994. I still remember every bit of the episode.

[RickBomba]

I got my biggest of a lifetime in on a "spare" rod that had a herring tail chunk on 30 feet behind our old fifteen foot Starcraft (the Aqua Velvet).

I was sitting down to eat a sandwich and drink a beer. My boatmate's were a little "altered", as well. Got into the backing on a Penn 975 when I finally turned her. Let her go. My tape measure only went up to 36 inches at the time and I had no scale. It was big. I let her go.

I lost about a 40 last year due to a factory Sebile split ring. It was right at the boat and #^&#^&#^&#^&y was getting ready to grab her. I'm kind of glad she swam away.

I lost an easy 30# fish right at the boat this year. We were in a full on blitz and I let off a little on the rod pressure when I tried to grab the leader.

The moral of the story is I let all of these fish go, whether I wanted to or not. It's just too bad you didn't get to see her Mikey.

Love,
Rick