Outch, did you consider diving in after it? I still remember the slow motion, sinking.Watched a pole I had "borrowed" from my Father get pulled into a river one night fishing for Carp. Lady friend had stepped away from it to help me land a fish, forgot to have her loosen the drag, bounced 3 times hard and on the fourth it was gone! Daiwa Black Widow rod with a Shimano Sienna with the "new quickfire" casting system, was so bummed..
It's the right thing to do.
I saw it happen from about 2o yards away. We were fishing in a small cove at the base of a dam so I was kind of across from it. The fish I had hooked was attempting to spool my reel so I was moving with the my fish to avoid it so didn't have much chance to nor would I considering the current at the time. For the record, fish I caught was 41 pounds.. Almost made it worth it.
"A stick in the eye everyday" , I tell my kids............that's a shit-fuck deal if I ever heard one.........I lost my old man's hunting boots once.......a happy camper he wasn't.......he just told me to go back into the woods and find them...period.
The Mrs. came back to AK years ago after being away for over a year dealing with our son's TBI & we went Halibut fishing the next day. Right off the bat she got on one that went about 120 & was beyond excited. Brought it up to the boat & I shot it in the head but somehow hit the leader too so we watched the fish slowly drifting down (100+ ft), I pitched the pistol & dove in and got it about 15-20' down. It was a really cold/wet ride home for me but she was ecstatic so it was worth it.
Now that's Love. I'm just not sure for the fish or the wife.
It was more like self preservation.Now that's Love. I'm just not sure for the fish or the wife.
Now that's a gentleman's maneuver!
Yeah if you'd just shot my fish and my leader all in one you'd be going in one way or the other. Smart to choose the self-wetting, path of self-preservation.
We just had a huge family get together yesterday at my sisters. Many of us there lost our homes in the Camp Fire. Allot of us hadn’t seen each other since before the fire. It’s been hectic for all of us for a minute. It was weird but felt really good. We all decided we need to get back to doing this more often.
Nice sled!Oh, and i finally visited and pulled out my boat from storage friday. It’s totally covered in ash from the last huge fire we had around here. But no new ember burns
Gotta clean the fuck out of it. Siphoned out the old gas. Need 2 new deep cycle batteries. I’m sure i’ll find some other things i gotta fix too.
We are partying down on the lake this thursday. Got a house boat. I like driving my boat out to meet them.
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i prob won’t be doing much fishing on the lakes this summer. There won’t be any water here soon. Shit’s dropping fast
The rivers are gonna suck too. Super low flows of hot water. The salmon aren’t going to like that.
Thx bro!
New quiver of rods and reels is only the start, then you have to outfit the new boxes/bags with the tackle. Good luck!
What is that? 15 feet?
I had 4 pimp salmon/striper boat getups.
FML