SPOOLED

[Rob Rockcrawler]

Happened in the canal about 10 years back. Something picked up a chunk and emptied a fresh spool of 30 lb mono. Tackle and techiques were a lot different for me back that. Id like to think i could have stopped the fish or whatever it was.

[tattoobob]

Yes Merrimac River 4-5 years ago fishing chunk Herring it was picked up and just took off, until I had 4 raps left on the spool. I grab the spool and told my friend to pull the anchor when the hook straightened out. this year fishing Eel at BI Fish grabed eel took 3/4 of the spool and then dropped the eel. not quite spooled but it left that feeling you get when you know you have a big fish and never will know for sure.

[CAL]

Never spooled but was well on my way to it. Fish broke me off in the rocks with about 50 yards of line left. When I checked my line (20#mono) the last 20' was shredded. The thing that sucked the most is that the fish hit so close to shore and I thought I'd land it in no time. Boy was I wrong. I never had a chance.

[JHABS]

Had a Fish hit in close at Quonny. Fish started to run but then there was nothing started to reel in and Fish was still on and it swam up inside to the bend then nothing again started to reel in and Fish was still on ran out again and kept going then It snapped the Line who knows what it was but had 4 guys watching who just wanted to see what it was.

[capesams]

mid-october...sunny sunday afternoon...a friend and I decided to hit south beach an soak some sandeels...we walked down around the point about 1/4-1/2 mile...we set up spikes and baited our hooks..tossed the offerings seaward....blue after blue about 3-5lbs were caught and tossed back....after abit I refused to stand up an cast..so sitting in the sand the bait flew out..fish came in sitting on my butt..life was good...untill... another little blue hit...as I was reeling it in, it just stopped??? wth....were fishing in 10 feet of water..pure sand on the bottom,,no hang's anywhere...at this point I stood up and gave the 11' lami...650 penn a yank...nothing..dead stop? then the line started to go left like it was tide to the bumper of a truck that was in first gear going down the road by itself...the spool was going click-click-click as the line was leaving the spool...still standing in the same spot, the spool was now half gone...looked at my friend and said I'll be back,going to walk this one down...well! half way back to the point was another guy fishing bottom...over top of him I go with the fish still pulling and not a turn of the handle yet....got to the point and ran out of sand to follow the fish[[han't seen the fish yet]]so there I was with no where to go, watching the line slowly vanish off the spool...whatever it was ,was heading across the channel straight for north beach.I looked down to see about 4 wraps of line left...think it's going to blow, I cupped my hand over the spool waiting for the bang as the line snapped...but as thing's never go the way u think..I stopped the fished..no sheet I'm thinking..battles not lost yet..as I slowlly pumped the rod and turned the handle about 4 times..I felt that sinking feeling of the hook pulling out[more like a tearing?]..stood there saying dang that was a gooden....reeling the line back in, to my supprise the rig came up the sand..but something odd on the hook...it was now getting dark and couldn't see what the heck it was...put it in my bait bag till mornin I thought where I could see it better...that next day I looked...green-blue-white..then I flipped a flap of meat over to see the lower jaw bone of a blue...pulled the side of the face of the bluefish right off in the battle.....What ate the blue?? I'll never know..never saw it. that was 12 years ago.

[bart]

Originally Posted by JHABS

Had a Fish hit in close at Quonny. Fish started to run but then there was nothing started to reel in and Fish was still on and it swam up inside to the bend then nothing again started to reel in and Fish was still on ran out again and kept going then It snapped the Line who knows what it was but had 4 guys watching who just wanted to see what it was.

same thing happened to me there last Nov.middle of the day on the incoming. i was fishing the beach when i looked over and noticed birds going nuts in the channel. run over and there's good size bunker flipping around with big blues on them. I started throwing a blue over white tattoo darter and had blues up to 15 lbs for a half hr. finally hooked into a monster that had me down to my backing fairly quickly. i had my drag socked down too but this fish brought me up into the channel and under one of the docks before i broke it off. never felt so violated in my life..

[fishpoopoo]

yes, i was spooled by a diver. he was after my 3 oz olive habs needle.

[zimmy]

I had a fish on for an hour last year before it broke off. Happened in flood conditions in a river and even though I eventually stopped the fish I couldn't bring it back against the current. I also couldn't move closer to the fish because of obstructions. Nobody around to help. I spent a good bit of time sitting and holding the spool while trying to figure out what to do. Fish was probably close to dead if not already dead. Right as I decided to swim after it the line broke. Probably a good thing, because getting in that water would have been a very stupid thing to do. Hard to think straight in that position.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler

Happened in the canal about 10 years back. Something picked up a chunk and emptied a fresh spool of 30 lb mono.

Tuna. I've seen it happen quite a few times

I never had a fish take me down to the knot---but only because I went for broke and busted off. I nearly got spooled at Montauk about 8 years ago. That, too, was a tuna, I think. School BFT. There were reports of them around that night

I want to see the bass that can spool me when I'm using my All Star 1209 and Saltiga 6000

[eelman]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Tuna. I've seen it happen quite a few times

I never had a fish take me down to the knot---but only because I went for broke and busted off. I nearly got spooled at Montauk about 8 years ago. That, too, was a tuna, I think. School BFT. There were reports of them around that night

I want to see the bass that can spool me when I'm using my All Star 1209 and Saltiga 6000

yup, never to the knot and you are right , I also think those are rouge school tuna etc...