weekend reports

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Kind of a funny story~

I was fishing with *** @ **** and I wasn't having much luck. *** had to work in the morning so *** headed home around 1am....Seeing as how I just wouldn't let myself go home skunked, I headed over to a schoolie spot to end my night. I was on within minutes and having a little fun. The fish ranged from 12" - 25"....I wanted something a little bigger so I started moving around...I could hear some decent gargles in the darkness and started carelessly casting. I was throwing a "mega-bait",...well mega or not....I must have casted right into a rock because as soon as I started retreiving the lure I noticed the action was different. I lifted the lure out of the water expecting to see the line fouled with a trebble hook, but to my surprise...it wasn't. Assuming the problem had corrected itself, I casted it once more. As I started retreiving the lure, ... again it had NO action. This time I carefully watched the lure as it approached me, it was definately damaged. I lifted it out of the water and noticed the lip was gone, I had completely snapped it off...apparently leaving a small hole near the lip area too. This lure no longer sat horizontally in the water...it just sank backwards due to the bearings inside and the hole in the lip area allowing water to enter the cavity . ...oh well....off with the mega-bait, and on with a Tattoo swimmer...and of course, more fish.

During all this time, there were baitfish constantly being harrassed by predators. Predators that I thought, were JUST bass. To my surprise, a school of squid appeared close to the area that I was targeting. I could tell they were squid by their alien style swimming, they were shooting at the surface trying to catch their dinner.... OOOOH, speaking of dinner - - - Boy, could I go for some fresh calamari.....what to do??? I didn't have any squid jigs, I had no intention of chasing squid that night. I searched through my bag and only came up with a small kastmaster. I tried numerous times, but could only get them to chase it. I was hopeless. I threw the swimmer back on and continued fishing, the whole time thinking about the squid. I tried to remember the lures I had seen in my bag... What could I use???

Then it came to me

it just sank backwards due to the bearings inside and the hole in the lip area

I quickly switched lures and started bobbing this broken mega-bait infront of me.....Low and Behold, the squid came...and FAST!! It was a B**ch getting them on trebbles..but WELL worth the belly they went into today...

Moral of the story, ...DON'T THROW AWAY THAT BROKEN PLUG JUST YET!!