SPOOLED - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

bart · 09-25-2006, 06:41 AM

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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 · 09-25-2006, 06:56 AM

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

zimmy · 09-25-2006, 07:41 AM

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.

Flaptail · 09-25-2006, 08:57 AM

Monomoy in 78' the one and only time it ever happened to me. I saw the fish hit in the first wave, saw how big she was and lightened up. Now I would have done things much much differently. Too long a time to let a fish run and too long a time to let her get her energy back. I still dream of that one. Penn 704 loaded with Ande pink 20. See ya'.

Slick Moedee · 09-25-2006, 09:07 AM

4 years ago, jiging for cod, 400+ yds of 80 lb spider. Must of been a BFT. Couldn't get the other lines in and the boat in gear before she was gone.