Lucky Fish!

Post by **tinbanger** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:51 am

While we were out with the family catching some perch my youngest son spies a bobber at the bottom and he proceeds to try and snag it.

Me ,being the "experienced" one says "why would you want a float that obviuosly dosn't float ?"

But 12 year olds have thier own reasons .

He proceeds to snag the bit of mono that was still attached to the float ( quite a feat in its self ) grabs the line and say's " Hey I caught fish!"

Sure enough a small perch on the end of the retrived line still alive !

Fished for 35 years and have never seen that before .

tinbanger

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:01 am

And it's something he'll talk about for years

Good one

Post by **Snag** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:21 am

Haha what luck! I read some story similar to that in the book Chicken Soup for the Fishermans Soul, but at the end of their line was a Muskie!

Post by **big-o** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:30 am

Hey Tinbanger

Good one...did you happen to have a camera with you....to catch the moment????

Post by **tinbanger** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:35 pm

no camera unfortunatly , gotta get in the habit of having one on board.
TB

Post by **Bobber** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:56 pm

Priceless.....absolutely priceless. We all know what we'll all be doing the next time we snag what looks like a loose line now.

Reel er in, ya never know.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:01 am

great story, had something similar happen last year and once again the year before.
when your fishing with braid and you really lean into it with both hands and it goes thunk in the air half way to it intended destination it creates a weak spot in the line. well we were chuckin frogs across the slop, a fish came up took my frog down, I set hard (because there is no other way) the line broke at the previously weakened spot, $H!T fish and frog gone..... no not yet, there was about 30-40 feet of power pro laying across the pads and rice. high bypass through the slop grab the line and hand over hand the fish into the boat. the first time two years ago it was in a tournament and although our days weight was nothing to write home about that fish was our biggest of the day.

Post by **Hoser** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:17 am

Great story...he'll remember that forever.

This could lead to a whole new thread. I'm sure we have all had "truth is stranger than fiction" fishing events. Love to hear some more from you folks.