SPOOLED

[Swimmer]

It was probably a shark but I'd like to think not. Big pier in West Chop about twenty years ago. Fishing very heavey 10' rod with bait. Fish took it and kept on going. I held on propping myself up against a piling until I was spooled. After the line snapped I fished with another rod and never hooked up again that night. It was 30 or 40 # test as I recall. Wind was blowing. Pier was moving side to side in the swells. I wish I had that one back.

[gone fishin]

Yep twice once fishing chunk at Portugee hole. Whatever it was it took off and even after climbing the rocks and trying to slow the fish down, I was unsucessful - snapped at the backing.
Second time was jigging with a crippled herring at the run. I looked both ways for traffic and only saw the coast guard crash boat ( the red rubber speedster) a long way away. He was actually somewhere about the mussle bed. I Cast into the current as far as I could heave it and let it sink to the first bump. before I could reel the boat was on me and he picked up my line. A brand new spool of 65 lb. power pro wrapped his prop including 5 oz. jig and all I could do was point straight at him and watch the line part at the backing. I still think he did it to me on purpose.

[NIB]

Originally Posted by gone fishin

Yep twice once fishing chunk at Portugee hole. Whatever it was it took off and even after climbing the rocks and trying to slow the fish down, I was unsucessful - snapped at the backing.
Second time was jigging with a crippled herring at the run. I looked both ways for traffic and only saw the coast guard crash boat ( the red rubber speedster) a long way away. He was actually somewhere about the mussle bed. I Cast into the current as far as I could heave it and let it sink to the first bump. before I could reel the boat was on me and he picked up my line. A brand new spool of 65 lb. power pro wrapped his prop including 5 oz. jig and all I could do was point straight at him and watch the line part at the backing. I still think he did it to me on purpose.

That happened to me when a boat came out of now where's.I was sure I was cleared,Confirmed my suspicions thet the line goes out an then down.the water holds it up in the colum.
I had a good one last night would have spooled most guys.I had the 1209 double over 90 I had about 9 lbs of drag cuppin the spool when i went 1/2 turn tighter in effort to lift the beast off the bottom in a 5 knot current.this went about 90 seconds Something had to give I don't believe the rod didn't break.Line was makin bad noises.then it happened the jig pulled.There's a fish swimmin around with no lips this smornin.Probably could have let the fish play out a little more.This fish was down an stayin there.I thought I had to make a move on it if it got time to recoup i was done.Hook pullin then was alot better than after 5 more minutes of that,sometimes it's just not ment to be.

[riverrat2]

I had the fish of a lifetime on off of MV this june. We were wire line jigging in 45ft of water. I had about half the spool of 50# wire on a 114hsp out when the fish hit and it took me to the backing twice before I dropped it. Im sure a lot of you have coght decent sized fish on wire and very rarely does a fish even take more than 5 yard runs with that stuff. This fish probably had about 100yds of wire behind him and still was peeling it off no problem. I was shaking for a long time after that to say the least.

[bloocrab]

I was fishing the Scusset Beach Jetty on an incoming, it was around 3am....I had caught a couple of decent fish that night nothing really big though...I never saw the hit, I was bullchitting with another angler when I heard the alarm<drag> go off, it made one intial run-....then like the energizer....."it just kept going and going and going".... didn't hear a boat,,,but dang, it sure seemed like one. I cupped the spool a couple of times but the fear of busting off kept me from really putting the brakes on. It took me right down to the knot, then SNAP. The other guy that was fishing there just looked at me for a few seconds,,,...then whispered,,,..."what the hell was that?" .....

With the ingredients being the Canal, Late Summer, and Chunking......you just never know what you might get or not get


Also got spooled on the G.I. causeway jigging up macks....doesn't really count though because I was just bait fishing with a cheap set-up with hardly any line on it.....the little tunnys came running through and one decided to take me for a ride.....wahoooooooo,, the braided line left a nice in my finger tooo