SPOOLED

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Habs, you always seem to hit that nerve it me that makes me post.
Bill can do it too! Here we go!
I have been spooled twice on the same day. Fishing with friend, mentor, and King, the Great Captain Joe Cordero of the Black Hawk! (God rest his soul!)
I was well experienced on large bass at this point in my life. We were catching feverishly hi forties and fifty ponders. I have that on VCR tape. Threw back 22 fish over forty pounds. Thirty eight in all, two low twenties, two fifties, the rest in the thirties.
The place was the Waskies. We could not back down on these fish quick enough.
The didn’t run like a seal, large shark, nor the speed of a tuna. I was that constant pressure you feel when you know that this is the one. Even Joe knew it!
They are still out their. I have seen them; however they still manage to elude us.
I have not seen any thing like this; I have an old book about stripers. In it says that a trawler once brought up two stripers in their net. After removing the heads, guts, fins, what remained was two fish weighing each 135 pounds. I have not seen any thing like that; however I have every reason to believe they still exist. I have visually seen with in five feet, eyes to black eyes, fish in the low nineties. Some we could not raise. They sit under the boat. You can’t move them, or lift them. They seem to know what’s up. They always seem to force you to make the wrong move on them...
I hope you have enjoyed some of this stuff!