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Location: Metro, MN | Many of us have been there, you hook into a giant 50+ and she shakes you right before or at the side of the boat and slowly swims away with her middle finger right in your face.
How do fish behave after that situation and how long do we figure it will take before that fish will follow or eat a bait again?
Does anyone have stories of something like that where you went back and boated a fish after the fact? |
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Location: Smith Creek | I've missed them on suckers and had them come back and hit again. And again. |
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| I just had one come unglued at boat side on the 8, hooked her for 5 seconds and got off. Saw some big scars on her back while she was swimming away and my buddy was bringing in his cast and she went over and ate his bait.Weve also had it happen the other way to his got off and I hooked it again on the next cast. I've also came back twenty minutes and a few beers later on a few followers that would eat a different bait or sometimes the same lure |
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| 3 weeks ago I lost a large fish (over 45" for sure) in a certain hole in a weed bed on a weeknight at 6pm after 2-3 headshakes. Went back the next night and on the same lure in the same hole on the same cast (direction/path) caught a 49" at 6pm that night. Assuming it was the same fish? The first night I went back at sunset and she did not show, and when I caught her was the first time in there that day. |
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| I lost a big fish on a small pressured river on he first cast one day. A couple casts later I stung hard and had it on for a few seconds ad it came off again. Few minutes later it missed my buddies bait. Then I finally caught it. It was a my pb a 47.5. |
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Location: Planet Meltdown | Hooked a fish on LSC and fought it for about 10 seconds or so, it shook off so I started burning my bait back in and it came back and smoked my bait again, it didn't get off the second time. I should post that video, it was quite comical. |
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Location: NE Ohio | LETS SEE IT^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| Also had a fish one time that seemed to be just hitting the bait with its mouth closed. Nocked the bait about 5 feet in the air on the first cast toward a log jam she was hiding in.As I was reeling it in she followed to the boat and then turned and went rt back toward the structure. Threw in there again and she jumped over the lure, threw in again and she smashed it and came off almost immediately. I pulled up on a rock island real quick,with my canoe cuz I kept floating downstream from her in between casts.walked to the front of the island and from a different angle threw the 4th cast and stuck her real good, fought what looked to be a nice 48"er,turned to fight her around the little rock pile I was standing on and grab my camera and release tools. Only to see my canoe floating down the river about 250 yards away. Thank god the fish wasn't hooked very well just in the tip off the beak and outside her face, so I got her unhooked by hand, threw my rod on the island and we both took off swimming. True story! |
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Location: Western U.P. | Best thread I've read in a while! Great advice also. I like the parking a car in the garage technique, but pretty confident that I wouldn't be able to wait that long. |
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| brianT - 9/26/2014 4:16 PM
Hooked a fish on LSC and fought it for about 10 seconds or so, it shook off so I started burning my bait back in and it came back and smoked my bait again, it didn't get off the second time. I should post that video, it was quite comical.
You have to think about posting this video? I really would love to see this!! |
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Location: Planet Meltdown | OK here it is. FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT!!! It wasn't 10 seconds but still had a hook in it and was fighting it, really shocked that fish came back, it must have been HUNGRY.
http://youtu.be/zriLYkM3lzY
Edited by brianT 9/26/2014 11:56 PM
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Location: Detroit River | On Wednesday I hooked-up with a mid 40's on a bucktail & she got off after a couple of head shakes. I cast right back & she came charging in & right behind her was a 50+. The mid 40 swam off straight off the bow of the bow & the 50+ swam under the boat & out the other side. I casted a top water at the 50 & my buddy casted a Bondy Wobbler in the direction the mid 40's went & he hooked up with her & she came out of the water & threw the bait back at him. I got the 50 to follow back but she seen the mid 40 again & swam off towards her. BTW the water was far too clear for my liking as we could see the bottom in 13 FOW. |
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Location: Ontario | brianT - 9/27/2014 12:28 AM
OK here it is. FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT!!! It wasn't 10 seconds but still had a hook in it and was fighting it, really shocked that fish came back, it must have been HUNGRY.
http://youtu.be/zriLYkM3lzY
Any chance it was still on just running to you and reeling couldn't keep up? |
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Location: oswego, il | I had a fish a month ago on lsc eat the planer board twice and then eat the bait behind it. I have had fish rip baits there come off and eat them again.
had a 45" fish swipe my crankbait a couple years ago even took a few scales off its head, went back to the spot an hour later and my partner caught it on a bucktail. Best one was a walleye I caught on the same crankbait in the fox river 30min later right were I had set it in the water.
Edited by ToddM 9/27/2014 5:57 AM
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Location: IGH Minnesota | I've caught the same fish about 8 hours later in the same day. Ate a Bobbie Bait at 7:17 AM, high skies rolled in, switched to small Medussa working it tight to the bottom and she ate again at 3:29 PM less than 100 yards from where I stuck her in the morning. Very distinct markings and I will try to get the pics up on here.
Edited by Uncle Smash 9/27/2014 6:25 PM
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Location: Planet Meltdown | lifeisfun - 9/27/2014 6:21 AM
brianT - 9/27/2014 12:28 AM
OK here it is. FOUL LANGUAGE ALERT!!! It wasn't 10 seconds but still had a hook in it and was fighting it, really shocked that fish came back, it must have been HUNGRY.
http://youtu.be/zriLYkM3lzY
Any chance it was still on just running to you and reeling couldn't keep up?
Absolutely not, that fish was on, then off, then on again. Hard to see in the video but I saw it come back and hit the bait the second time. |
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| Both your vids are pretty darn cool! |
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| Back in july i lost what would have been my new pb twice in 30 minutes. I was throwing a 6 inch shallow raider and hook up with a big upper 40's fish, get her close and she comes off...30 mins later wham! Fish on...same fish, same lure...get her close and she gets off AGAIN!! She bent those little hooks straight...lesson learned if you hook a big fish on a bait with small hooks loosen up on the drag or youll be sorry!!! |
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Location: north metro, MN | A couple years ago I had a fish come straight up on my buck tail in the 8. I must have had a knick in my line because as soon as I started to set the hook it was gone. We saw the fish jump 10 minutes later trying to shake my buck tail. That evening I set the hook on a fish and just before she was about to be boat side we could see my buck tail from that morning still on the side of her face... Somehow she got off again which really bugged me. Would have made a way better story to say I got my lure back and was able to help the fish etc. but this version is the truth so I will stick to it. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | we caught the same 45.75"er 2 x in the same day... about 7 hours apart... |
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| I've had situations where I would have a bite or aggressive follow - come back 30 minutes later or even a few hours later and hook up. I've read different opinions on this, some people say not to over fish a hooked fish, not sure how others feel about that or if it is even possible.
I lost a nice mid 40's musky this last week and tried the spot many more times but couldn't get her to come up again, can't win em all. |
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