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| A little off topic...but....hilarious nonetheless. Similar story happened to my cousin and I several years back while up fishing. At this point in the trip, we were fishing for panfish to filet for the official end-of-the-week fish fry. We're fishing a hot panfish spot up against a specific stretch of seawall. He's terrible at precision casting. We're working the boat along this stretch of shore, casting up into the shadows of a rather tall seawall. He keeps casting ON TO THE SEAWALL and snagging his line. We'd move the boat in, unhook his line, move the boat back out...those fish were spooked for a few mintues, we'd move on down the seawall to find more active fish and move back and forth as the fish did too. I kid you not...he got his line snagged on that wall at least three times before I lost my patience and had to read him the riot act to get his act under control and to quit snagging the wall so we wouldn't have to waste so much time moving the boat in that area and back out again, spooking the fish. Things got a bit tense. I, in the front of the boat, manning the trolling motor to navigate us back and forth along that stretch of seawall...turned my back to him and we kept fishing. Very quiet in the boat now. No one talking. Just hear those random casts being made...the occasional sound of the live-well lid being lifted and a splash from a fish being tossed in the well. All of a sudden...with my back turned to the crew in the back of the boat.....I receive a gentle tap on my shoulder. I turn around to see my cousin standing there with this sh_t-eatin' grin on his face as if he's holding back the laughter. He looks at me and simply asks these words...and I quote...verbatim: "Have any duct tape?" I respond: "What?" He looks at me and says again: "Have any duct tape." I respond: "What do you need duct tape for?!" He looks at me and says again: "Just....do you have any duct tape?!" And now he's piqued my curiosity...what the heck is going on....and at that moment......he just starts to well up with laughter and he holds up his fishing rod...that is now conveniently in two pieces....not by design.....and not electively. He had snagged the dang seawall again....and he KNEW better than to tell me he snagged that seawall again as to not tick me off any further than I already was...and he just started yankin' away on his line till the rod snapped into two pieces!!!! LMAO! How I did not hear the rod snap and that commotion...I don't know. I think at that point...I had mentally tuned out the crew in the back of the boat from my own levels of frustration and I was just zoned in on what I was doing that I missed it all. That ended up being a very comical moment that broke the silence as we all nearly collapsed with tears in our eyes from laughing so hard! Took that busted rod back to the cabin that night...trashed the small end...kept the butt end section of the rod and turned it into one heckuva bottle rocket slinging tool that night around the bon-fire! Back to your regularly scheduled thread needing to know about disrupting an area of it's fish while retrieving a snagged line....carry on.....  Edited by MACK 5/4/2012 11:22 AM | |||
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DonPursch - 5/4/2012 11:09 AM Get a partner that can cast !!!! I'm just kidding do what you gotta do You're not kidding Don... whenever somebody else gets hung up on a shallow reef (especially if it's a hot area) it pains me to go it and ruin the spot. Of course it's different when I get hung up... If it's a small area I typically consider it spoiled and move on, same with fishing small shallow reefs that birds fly off of when you set up to cast.
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