wasilvers
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So today was my last day fishing in 2012 and it ended with several - 'fish stories'.
Started with the walk back to the launch after parking the car. It was supposed to be a calm day, I wouldn't call 15-20 mph winds calm, but I'm an accountant, not a weatherman. It started raining, so I put my full raingear on. The walk back to the ramp was peaceful, but something was missing... like my boat which had just been tied to the dock a minute ago :shock: My first thought was "Did I put the plug in?" Somehow, the wind and waves had untied it and it was floating in the lake. As I sprinted down the rest of way, I could see it down shore, the wind blew it close enough I didn't have to even get my feet wet. 8)
When fishing slowed later, I figured I'd anchor and thoroughly fish a weedy point. On the second cast I hooked up with a fish that felt small, then felt BIG - must have been swimming towards the boat at first. Once he realized he was hooked, to the deep weeds he dove. 15 FOW and he's buried in the old growth weeds. :? I'm using 8lb line and it's singing in the wind about to break. I can still feel the fish on the line as the lure is stuck on the weeds. 5 minutes of pulling and nothing. :idea: Then I had the most brilliant idea :idea:, get the lure recovery thing-a-ma-jig out. It slides over your line down to the bait and pulls it loose - (I snagged it from one of the tinboats box passes.) So I hook it up to the line and it starts to slide down, but the recovery line tangles and I drop the whole think in the lake. So I have a fish, still on the line, snagged near the bottom of the lake, and now my lure recoverer is down there too. - and I really don't want this to break off I can just see the lure recovery handle thing-a-ma-jig floating about 8 feet down. I tried the net to get it back, but couldn't reach it. So while still holding the rod tight, I took a second rod with 50lb braid, rigged up a spoon and sunk it by the fish. I started snagging weeds and bringing them up, hoding two rods reeling one, then clearing weeds, and keeping at it. I must have looked hilarious. I never got the right weed, so I tried for the handle to the lure retriever (its a circle without many areas to snag). After another 5 minutes (spoons don't drop straight down, they flutter!!!), I just snagged the edge of it... Gingerly I was able to bring it to my figertips, while holding both rods in one hand and keeping both tight - A third hand would have been AWESOME. I grabbed the handle and started to pull. The lure retriever had snagged the lure and pulled it free!!!! Fortunately, the fish was still on it, but that fish was not done. He went STRAIGHT to the anchor line and snagged it royally. So my fish, lure, and lure retriever are all tangled on the anchor line now. Eventually, I was able to get the whole mess in the boat - then the fish fell off the hook :LOL2: :LOL2: :LOL2:
I fished this day alone. I asked a person who always wants to go, and he never got back to me. So I asked a kid who wants to learn how to fish better. His mom (I work with her) said he was available, he never got back to me either. So I went fishing alone. As I was fishing, the kid got back to me and told me he was busy... no problem. As I was loading the boat, the first guy called me and told me he couldn't make it and wondered how I did... it was sundown already :roll: :roll: :roll: They missed some good fishing... Ended up keeping 3 fish total, 2 bass and one pike that was killed by the hooks.
Started with the walk back to the launch after parking the car. It was supposed to be a calm day, I wouldn't call 15-20 mph winds calm, but I'm an accountant, not a weatherman. It started raining, so I put my full raingear on. The walk back to the ramp was peaceful, but something was missing... like my boat which had just been tied to the dock a minute ago :shock: My first thought was "Did I put the plug in?" Somehow, the wind and waves had untied it and it was floating in the lake. As I sprinted down the rest of way, I could see it down shore, the wind blew it close enough I didn't have to even get my feet wet. 8)
When fishing slowed later, I figured I'd anchor and thoroughly fish a weedy point. On the second cast I hooked up with a fish that felt small, then felt BIG - must have been swimming towards the boat at first. Once he realized he was hooked, to the deep weeds he dove. 15 FOW and he's buried in the old growth weeds. :? I'm using 8lb line and it's singing in the wind about to break. I can still feel the fish on the line as the lure is stuck on the weeds. 5 minutes of pulling and nothing. :idea: Then I had the most brilliant idea :idea:, get the lure recovery thing-a-ma-jig out. It slides over your line down to the bait and pulls it loose - (I snagged it from one of the tinboats box passes.) So I hook it up to the line and it starts to slide down, but the recovery line tangles and I drop the whole think in the lake. So I have a fish, still on the line, snagged near the bottom of the lake, and now my lure recoverer is down there too. - and I really don't want this to break off I can just see the lure recovery handle thing-a-ma-jig floating about 8 feet down. I tried the net to get it back, but couldn't reach it. So while still holding the rod tight, I took a second rod with 50lb braid, rigged up a spoon and sunk it by the fish. I started snagging weeds and bringing them up, hoding two rods reeling one, then clearing weeds, and keeping at it. I must have looked hilarious. I never got the right weed, so I tried for the handle to the lure retriever (its a circle without many areas to snag). After another 5 minutes (spoons don't drop straight down, they flutter!!!), I just snagged the edge of it... Gingerly I was able to bring it to my figertips, while holding both rods in one hand and keeping both tight - A third hand would have been AWESOME. I grabbed the handle and started to pull. The lure retriever had snagged the lure and pulled it free!!!! Fortunately, the fish was still on it, but that fish was not done. He went STRAIGHT to the anchor line and snagged it royally. So my fish, lure, and lure retriever are all tangled on the anchor line now. Eventually, I was able to get the whole mess in the boat - then the fish fell off the hook :LOL2: :LOL2: :LOL2:
I fished this day alone. I asked a person who always wants to go, and he never got back to me. So I asked a kid who wants to learn how to fish better. His mom (I work with her) said he was available, he never got back to me either. So I went fishing alone. As I was fishing, the kid got back to me and told me he was busy... no problem. As I was loading the boat, the first guy called me and told me he couldn't make it and wondered how I did... it was sundown already :roll: :roll: :roll: They missed some good fishing... Ended up keeping 3 fish total, 2 bass and one pike that was killed by the hooks.