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You may want to get your crying towel out before reading further.I've had a rather slow musky season thus far this year.Until last nite.My partner and I were fishing Wed. nite league on the Three Lakes Chain.About 5pm I hooked a large fish on a surface bait,that after a great fight was netted by my partner.Once in the net this fish went nuts with its trashing.The hook came out of the fish,so one less job to worry about.There was a father and son off a 100 yards that we motioned over to verify our catch,leaving the fish in the net in the water.We had estimated the fish to be close to the 50" mark (my largest to date).I told my partner I did'nt feel comfortable trying to lift the fish out of the net,so decided to lift the net into the boat.As we started to lift the net the fish appeared to have broken a couple of the nets loops off of the ring in the bottom of th Frabil net.With it nose in this hole and us lifting up she slide thur this hole and was gone as I and my P looked at each other in disbelief.My partners net stays in the boat all summer long and has for 4or5 years,and aparently has sun rotted to the point that it could'nt handle this size fish(had netted several smaller fish this year with no problem).So guys if you leave your net in the sun day in and day out give it a check for weakness.Its a cheaper fix then buying crying towels. Mike |
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Location: midwest | Sorry to hear this happened and that the fish was lost, but I'm glad the fish was not lifted into the boat with the net and set down on the floor of the boat. |
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| Very similar to what I was thinking. |
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| Well you'll never do that again right? |
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| Its not that hard to lift a fish of that size out of the water. just saying. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | yikes....watch this and learn from Rob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBjD7T-s1pI |
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| It sucks you didn't get a measurement or picture, but you did still catch the fish. Isn't that why we are all fishing right? You still had the thrill and joy of catching a large fish, you just will never know just how large it was which is pretty insignificant in the long run anyways. |
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| A few thoughts:
1. Don't just look at the bag, the handle is mostly left in the compressed position for folks fishing with a partner. It can quite easily be stepped on or tripped over in a way that can make it impossible or truly difficult to pull out the handle when you need it. Might as well make sure everything is good.
2. This guy was obvioulsy in an event when the length needs to be known, but in cases where I am not in an event, I leave the T's bump-board in the locker and rely on one of those round plastic sticks you can put in the water along side the fish in the net. It's plenty close enough for me. Then I just decide if it was a 51 or a 52 and go happily along. It's a total waste of time to take the fish out of the water for a picture that a lot of folks are then going to say, "only looks like a 33 1/2." Who needs that abuse? |
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