I have had several fish bite a bait while it was hanging over the side of the boat, but this morning we were moving from one point to the next with the trolling motor buzzing pretty good and a red nailed a Gulp just inches from the trolling motor…great fight, but the trolling motor won…
reelly…
thanks.
what’s the preferred setup when using this method? color, leader, weight, tm speed?
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Originally posted by PeaPodthanks.
what’s the preferred setup when using this method? color, leader, weight, tm speed?
Where you been??? I figure the warden has you buckled to the galley with a dishmop in one hand and a soup spoon in the other.
reelly…
I was fishing with a guide a few years ago when he set his rod down across the gunwale to help someone and a fish grabbed his baited hook and took the rod/reel down to the depths. It was pretty funny actually.
No, I’m not saying who it was.
quote:who was it?:smiley:
Originally posted by DFreedomI was fishing with a guide a few years ago when he set his rod down across the gunwale to help someone and a fish grabbed his baited hook and took the rod/reel down to the depths. It was pretty funny actually.
No, I’m not saying who it was.
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the mud minnow.
I have lost 6 rod/reels over the last several years. One offshore, when I handed it to the angler with a fighting belt and it left his hands like a bottle rocket. The others have been inshore. 3 to fish taking it over the side and 2 that the clients casted it right out of their hands…not too big of a deal…it is part of the business, I guess…There will be first to just about everything you would never think of eventually if you are on the water enough…you never know what may happen next…thats what I like about fishing…
Robert Olsen
I said I wouldn’t tell.
We were fishing in the Cooper one day many years ago and my wife was using her brand new rod & reel for the first time. We were fishing with live bait and had not had a bite for several hours. My wife cast out and set her rod down with the tip hanging over the stern and proceeded to get us a nice adult beverage out of the cooler when I mentioned that she should NEVER lay her rod down like that and to ALWAYS put it in a rod holder when not actually holding the rod…and of course she scoffed at me and made the comment ‘…we haven’t had a bite all day…no big deal’. As the words left her mouth a fish hit her bait, the rod tip went down, and the rod sprung out of the boat like a rocket. Needless to say, I gave her a rash about that one and she was really upset about losing her brand new rig that she really liked.
On my next cast I had a little tap and set the hook…thought I had a crab or a boot or something because I just felt weight and no fight. When I reeled in I had no bait but my hook was caught on another hook and I immediately noticed that connected to the hook was one of the leaders I had made that morning. It was her rod & reel.
Now that was a first for me!
PioneerLouie
Pioneer Venture 175, Johnson 90
Summerville, SC
Went surf fishing off of Morris Island years ago,fished the night tide, went back to camp and slept till sunup, and went and fished the incomming early AM tide. I had two 9’ rods out firmly planted in PVC surf spikes, and I got a little drowsy. Strectched out on the warm sand and closed my eyes. When I woke up I had one 9’ surf rig, and it wasn’t the one I had “borrowed” from my buddy! Egg on face, lesson learned.
Sol Mate
Mako 20B
225 Optimax
Several years ago while fishing in Broad River my brother laid his pole down while unhooking a shark. Well the bait fell in the water and the next thing the rod
and reel takes a swim. This was only used maybe 2 times by him , It was a very small penn reel n a 5 foot rod. He grabs his 6/0 and trys to hook the rod with it. I told him to forget it that his outfit was down by Bay Point by now. We were fishing close to Generals landing.
I DONT HAVE A BOAT
BUT LOVE TO FISH> HINT
I was surf fishing in Fl and had 3 rods out. One was a Penn reel with a short rod . I think the reel was like a 209 Penn . I was sitting in my chair drinking a cold one and look up and see the sand spike laying down. My rod is heading to the water. I run to try and get it but no way. Maybe 20 minutes later I am reeling in and my rod n reel is hooked on the one I am reeling in. Was very lucky on that one.
I DONT HAVE A BOAT
BUT LOVE TO FISH> HINT