Got smoked

[Flaptail]

More Patience, less drag and somtimes your the windshield and sometimes your the bug. I had a tremendous bass on a few years back at Pole 85 on the canal on a humid overcast breaking west tide. The fish took a yellow 3-1/2 oz. Polaris, after screaming out a hundred yards or better of 30 mono off of the conventional and bringing me west 4 poles I got impatient and tried to turn the bitch. I felt the first hook go and lightened up but the damage was done and a minute later the second one went. I saw the fish take the plug and knew she was close to fifty. When I got the plug back to the end of the rod the 4/0 on the belly ( I always put a 4/0 on the bellies of the 3.5 Polaris) and the tail 3/0 had been bent out almost straight. I have taken two 45 pound fish from the canal. One on an eel and the other at pole 195 on the yellow polaris and even though the tide was running every bit as hard as it was when I lost that fish they did not fight anywhere near as hard or have the mass that the one I dropped had. I think about that fish all the time and curse myself for being so stupid as to have let the situation cause me to lose my patience. Now I take my time on any fish I feel is worthy of it.