Heartbreakers - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Pt.JudeJoe · 10-09-2007, 09:37 PM

Why did you have to bring THAT up?!! I had almost sucessfully barricaded that painful memory away. The freight train run like nothing I had ever experienced ..the fish running right taking my line over the merciless rocks..the last green mile of frayed line coming back onto my spool..the too dangerous waves lifting the quarry that looked like a KAYAK with stripes! I stood there looking at the fish -beaten, but out of reach.I waited like Louis the XVIth for the blade which came in the form of a rock depostited milennia ago just for this moment. As the wind whipped my severed line in the salt spray I felt an emptiness that is hard to describe but many have felt over the years.

goosefish · 10-09-2007, 10:31 PM

If I'm having a good season I don't mind dropping a fish. But if I'm having a bad season or not fishing enough, then the loss is painful and generally prefaced by profane outbursts followed by a relapse of a hibernating nicotine addiction.

NIB · 10-10-2007, 05:29 AM

Like Bill said,Fish gotta win some time..
Sure it bothers me.. I don't get all bent out of shape over it..
U have to hook good fish to loose em.To me thats all part of the fun..

BigFish · 10-10-2007, 06:23 AM

Some days you get the bear....some days the bear gets you!

Flaptail · 10-10-2007, 06:34 AM

I have one that haunts me to this day. I see it many many times in my dreams because I saw the fish. Monomoy, 78', dusk, June, Blue/Silver 7 inch Windcheater, in the wash after a 15 minute fight, huge, just huge.

pmbrac · 10-10-2007, 06:54 AM

I'm still pissed off from last week late nite at the canal. I lost one fish at the rocks that was close to a four footer and another on the first bounce while jigging. This fish I never got a turn on him and then I felt the worst thing to feel while jiggin, "line scraping against rocks". Fish gone. Man that hurts, but I fished even harder the rest of the night. Losing big fish really hurts, but I can't get too mad because I was lucky enough to land a 40 lber this spring down there on a plug. Its been a good season.

Ed B · 10-10-2007, 07:28 AM

I stood there looking at the fish -beaten, but out of reach.I waited like Louis the XVIth for the blade which came in the form of a rock depostited milennia ago just for this moment. As the wind whipped my severed line in the salt spray I felt an emptiness that is hard to describe but many have felt over the years.

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Pt.JudeJoe, how incredibly vivid, you bring tears to the eyes of every surfcaster.

Ed

zimmy · 10-10-2007, 07:38 AM

I've got 3 fish that definately haunt me. The last one of the bunch I did scream. The middle one of the bunch I was too tired and dejected to react. The first one I was a little undergunned.

I lost a good one this weekend after about only 20 seconds, so I wasn't too upset and figure that is going to happen. It's the ones that were long battles that I was close to winning, but for various reasons still very far that bug me.

justplugit · 10-10-2007, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Pt.JudeJoe

The freight train run like nothing I had ever experienced .

Ya that's the one that still haunts me,
as i know it will prolly never happen again.