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Motivated by the need to take the whole family fishing, I set up an early Saturday morning fishing trip. Put the boat in at the lighthouse at 7:00am. It was a miracle we made it there early. Set a course directly to the rock garden. The NOAA forecast was for winds 5-10 and decreasing. The wind forecast was WRONG…: it was 10-15 most of the day till we got off the water.

Once we hit the garden, I set the wife up throwing a jig under a CT, and the kids with small rods to catch pins. I was throwing live shrimp Under a CT and doing some free lining. Lost count of the shorts after 30 or so. Caught one short bluefish 8â€

I turned my head to see who was causing the commotion and ZOOOOOPING my favorite Shimano leaped from my hands and quickly disappeared into the tainted waters.

and my butt would have been in the water right behind it sometimes ya just gotta get wet sounds like ya'll still had an excelent time though

Dang MJ, that's awful. I think I'm w/ Wevans, I'd have gone in.
At least you can salvage that rod. Put a new one on yourself, or Bill Colson at Kevins will do it for about $10.

Sorry to hear yea lost the shimano, I had a similar thing happen, never got it back.

As always the pics were great. It's not always about catching fish - looks like ya'll had a ball Can't think of a better way to spend the day with the family.

Sea Gurl

The last time I had one go out it was in 26 feet of water. I retrieved it before it got to the bottom.

MJ I think we have all had those days like you had.

It is hard to see a rod go over like that. When I was 16, I had a Penn 6/0 on a custom rod that went over in about 150' of water. A barracuda came up and grabbed the bare hook swinging over the transom. It was like slow motion I lunged for it and the butt of the rod just slipped away....