uffah......There upon resides a special god that traverses the bottom of the "ditch" from end to end. His specific job is to effectivly grasp each and every piece of lead, coated or uncoated, dressed with animal or synthetic attire and hold on until the fisherman on the other end of the line has completed his or her expletives and strenght trying to salvage a lure or a few bucks and breaks off leaving another chunk of lead. Lining the otherwise rocky bottom with lead, plastic, wood and all sorts of materia used in luring the mighty striped bass
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The god also has a few gremlin friends that help, such as Lobsta traps, huge weeds, mussel beds, discarded rope, humongus starfish and other heavy objects.
Added to all that the current runs so fast one cannot salvage a lure due to errant casting or if the almighty srtiped bass decides to wrap you around his favoritwe boulder!
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