The one that got away!
Posted: May 14th, 2005, 12:55 am
I always hear these stories of people losing these monster fish, so I am not going to tell you about the monster redfish that Rocket sabotaged me on today. Instead I thought I would tell you about the little guy that got away. Myself, and Rocket left the ramp about 4pm on the last of a rising tide. A short time later we arrived at what I thought was fish-able water, when I heard Rocket start whining about being in the middle of no where, and needing to be over there further. I said that we could fish our way over there quickly enough, and so it began. Two or three cast later and Rocket has a red coming to the boat, from water in the middle of no where, I'll have you know. A few cast later and he misses another. I reassessed my tackle situation, and soon I was hooking up to. We went on to boat 10 keeper reds, and missed several more, when the bite started to slow. I again reassessed my tackle situation, and started fishing hard with not much going on for awhile, when suddenly, WHAMO,BIG FISH, YEE-HAW,HANG-ON! I battled the brute for quite some time and was'nt really gaining on him, all the while, expertly guiding the boat away from structure and trying to pull the fish to deeper open waters. I led the fish to where I thought was safer, and concentrated on keeping the boat headed toward open water and trying to will the fish away from the gauntlet of oysters and rocks that he was trying to make for. Finally, I started gaining some line on the fish, and got him away from all the mess, when, I guess he finally realized that he was hooked. Off he went again on another drag burning run and then, yep you guessed it, SNAP, @#$@#$@$ @#$@$@ @%@#@'er. I reeled in my line to find it badly frayed. Seems the old boy did'nt get that big being stupid, he took me right to some submerged structure, and wrapped my line around a rock or something and then said have a nice day .
Anyhow, enough blathering about that, this was a story about the little guy. I placed a cast into a likely enough spot and soon I felt the tell-tell tap of a fish. I rared back and set the hook with great force and the little guy was pulled completely from the water. He struggled on top trying to get back into his world where he planned to show me a good fight when suddenly the hook pulled free . I could easily estimate his size and species from the look he gave me and it was a Speck of at least 6 to 7 inches. Now that is a fish that I will be lookin to catch. I just would like it to be in about ten years
I guess we had a good day, but it would have been better if the score would have went to my favor, instead of even, so that I could have bragged about putting it on 'ole Rocket like usual, but I guess I should be the bigger man and tell Rocket congratulations for finally keeping up.
Anyhow, enough blathering about that, this was a story about the little guy. I placed a cast into a likely enough spot and soon I felt the tell-tell tap of a fish. I rared back and set the hook with great force and the little guy was pulled completely from the water. He struggled on top trying to get back into his world where he planned to show me a good fight when suddenly the hook pulled free . I could easily estimate his size and species from the look he gave me and it was a Speck of at least 6 to 7 inches. Now that is a fish that I will be lookin to catch. I just would like it to be in about ten years
I guess we had a good day, but it would have been better if the score would have went to my favor, instead of even, so that I could have bragged about putting it on 'ole Rocket like usual, but I guess I should be the bigger man and tell Rocket congratulations for finally keeping up.