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View Poll Results: *#@^.!!!!!
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I never / rarely drop a fish
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4.60% |
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I drop a good one here and there
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77.01% |
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I loose most of the big ones
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2.30% |
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I've never hooked a cow
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16.09% |
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10-10-2007, 03:27 PM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
Posts: 2,266
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Was fishing small Charter boat off Watch Hill with my Dad and Brother. Monster hit, pulled out drag, couldn't move her. Was patiently fighting the fish then nothing. Wish I saw it. Still think about that fish until this day and it was 2 years ago. The not seeing was the hardest part for me...
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10-10-2007, 06:44 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
Location: notsob
Posts: 3,476
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yes. it really hurts.
makes you think though, so you dont screw up the next time. what did i do wrong?
happened the other day, i should have let that fish run much longer with the bait, and i should have been using a bigger hook. im using a bigger hook now, and letting them run longer. ive never had a bass take that much line out...drop before was my 1st 40lber too.. im not letting it get to me though. there are fish however i will never forget those battles lost.
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live to fish. fish to live. rod tips high.
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10-10-2007, 07:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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I've got a few I'd like to have back.
2 in the rip at great point, the first leveraged the trebles open, I never even stopped that one. The second was hit by a seal after a 20 minute fight. I had it stopped, it's on the surface out 75 yards-100 and I'm trying to work it out of a humming west tide rip. Along comes a horsehead for the free meal....
2 more in the canal, one got past me in a back eddy and the hook came shooting out when it went past. I could not lift that fish, it was within 15 feet and I could not lift it before it got past me with a 1209 and leaning back as hard as I could. if the line had broken I'd have gone over backwards.
Its all part of the game, and part of what keeps you going back...
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10-11-2007, 09:42 AM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Marshfield
Posts: 2,608
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Because I don't fish all the hours of some of the guys here and also because I have never caught a fish over 20lbs my 2 drops will NEVER be forgotten. Both happened on a rock in the surf at the same spot. The first one happened when I slipped a couple of feet going to grab the fish on the weed beds below. Line went slack and he sensed the opportunity, shook his head, threw the plug and flopped his way back in before I could get to him. That fish was so fun to fight and reel in. The whole time I'm fighting this fish which took awhile after several runs I'm thinking of all the advise I got from this site and all the info I've read about but never put into practice. The worst part was a guy offered to help me and grab him for me but i declined because of my control freak issues. I was speachless and still think about that fish all the time.
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"Sunshine Day Dream"
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10-11-2007, 02:28 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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i yell, scream, swear, wonder why.. Then i pace around. Then i go home and cant sleep. Start overfishing every night pissing off my family and freinds. Break up with my girlfreind.
I dont take it well.
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