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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/bcydu5/catch_and_re...
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Location: E. Tenn | ...along with a couple of jaw spreaders.. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Once took a new bait out it's package, sharpened the hooks, put the package away and dropped the bait in the water. Watched my brand new spinner bait twirl beautifully out of sight with no leader attached. :-0 |
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Location: Vilas County, WI | jchiggins - 4/14/2019 12:52 PM
Once took a new bait out it's package, sharpened the hooks, put the package away and dropped the bait in the water. Watched my brand new spinner bait twirl beautifully out of sight with no leader attached. :-0
Whew.... Glad I'm not the only one who has done that! |
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| LMAO!!
I've always tossed baits overboard when I unhook the fish, before I take them out of the net. Out of habit, I did that once with a fish that had wound up in the line and leader. Cut all the line, unhooked the fish, tossed the lour out away from the net...
As I watched it fly through the air unattached to anything but a leader I realized what I had done. Luckily for me it was a topraider so no harm no foul. But yes, I've done it. Never tossed any tools. Yet...
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Location: Northern Illinois | Years ago I watched my buddy tie on a new spinnerbait, cut what he thought was the tag end, and throw the bait overboard...watched it sink out of sight. I couldn't fish for a half hour laughing at the expression on his face (he had 4 more just like it). |
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Location: E. Tenn | jchiggins - 4/14/2019 1:52 PM
Once took a new bait out it's package, sharpened the hooks, put the package away and dropped the bait in the water. Watched my brand new spinner bait twirl beautifully out of sight with no leader attached. :-0
Pulled a similar stunt toward the end of a long day on Dale Hollow..
Tied on a spinnerbait, clipped off the tag end, let the spinnerbait over the side of the boat, only to realize it wasn't the tag end of the line I cut..
At that point I said "Screw it", went back to the cabin, took a power nap, and was good to go for some evening fishing..
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| Twice I've "released" the wrong thing. One was a large jigging spoon and the other was an anchor that I never tied to a rope. I just dropped it in at the side of the boat and watched it sink out of sight. |
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Location: 31 | I use to like to helicopter single spin spinner baits in clear water and would occasionally change the blade out using a snap/swivel. Sooo I picked up a loose spinner bait, changed the blade, picked up my rod and just dropped the lure over the side without clipping it to the leader. I managed to get it balanced on the rod tip for a second until it disappeared into the abyss. I started dropping baits over the side with my rod instead of my hand after that…
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Location: WI | Did that with my friend's Grabb It. Muskie thrashed while unhooking and I pulled my hand back (natural reaction) and hit the net hoop. I put 3ft leashes on all of my release tools so this doesn't happen. My friend, well, he doesn't.... |
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| Used my pliers to pull a new lure out of a musky's mouth, unhooked the lure from my leader, and casually dropped it into the water to watch it disappear. Pretty stupid...but, that probably doesn't make the top 10 list of stupid things I've done while fishing. |
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Location: SW Ohio | jchiggins - 4/14/2019 1:52 PM
Once took a new bait out it's package, sharpened the hooks, put the package away and dropped the bait in the water. Watched my brand new spinner bait twirl beautifully out of sight with no leader attached. :-0
Ditto. Ditto. And Ditto yet again... |
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Location: Waukee, IA | I pleaded not guilty, but I have had one incident. Pike fishing on a trophy lake in NW Ontario. Old 14 foot alumacraft with crusty oats exposed on the inside of the gunnel "just incase" so I decided that they were a great spot to hang my Mepps Musky Killers and other lures that I had been using. I got a 39" pike and during the fray of getting it unhooked it managed to flip 3 of my baits off of the oar and into the water. My dad thought it was funny AF. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Guilty!
BUT only with my nicest tools. |
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| Not guilty. And you can't prove it otherwise.
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Location: US | There's a spot in Nopiming Provincial Park we now know as plier point for this reason. |
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Location: 31 | Back in the mid-80s I was trolling with my girlfriend and trying to get my new “state-of-the-art” paper graph dialed in. I had left a wire connector in the cup holder from the install and my girlfriend thought it would be cute to pick it up with the stainless steel hook-outs and wave in front of my face. I kept brushing it aside until about the third time when I grabbed the wire connector and flung it out of the boat, but the hook-outs went sailing with it because she let go first. It was a little quiet in the boat after that… |
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| This is a fisherman’s version of a Freudian slip. It’s like when you walk in to the travel office at work, see the gorgeous woman who books the trips and ask, “ I need two pickets to Tittsburg!” Really, you always wanted to toss your tools in the lake, and that’s why you did it. |
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| In the garage, I lose tools I had in my hand less than 5 minutes ago. a 5 minute fix turns into a 20 minute egg hunt.
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Location: Northern Illinois | ^^^^^Guilty! LOL! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I will fess up to doing this:..... Casting a pounder about 7 yrs. ago....
In the "back swing" The pounder (grabed) another Rod and Reel set up, and proceeded to Launch, said Set Up into 20ft. of water...… #*#*E !!…. Just missed taking off my Left ear...
Took about 1.5 hr. of trolling the area with the biggest treble hook and weight I had... finally Hooked it.... No Loss ,... No Problem.... Eh !
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Junkman - 4/19/2019 11:45 AM
This is a fisherman’s version of a Freudian slip. It’s like when you walk in to the travel office at work, see the gorgeous woman who books the trips and ask, “ I need two pickets to Tittsburg!” Really, you always wanted to toss your tools in the lake, and that’s why you did it.
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| Top H2O - 4/19/2019 9:34 PM
I will fess up to doing this:..... Casting a pounder about 7 yrs. ago....
In the "back swing" The pounder (grabed) another Rod and Reel set up, and proceeded to Launch, said Set Up into 20ft. of water...… #*#*E !!…. Just missed taking off my Left ear...
Took about 1.5 hr. of trolling the area with the biggest treble hook and weight I had... finally Hooked it.... No Loss ,... No Problem.... Eh !
Holy crap. I can see that happening. Bet that never happened when the heaviest lure in the box was a Mepp's Musky Killer. |
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| I bought a new knipex bolt/hook cutter, my buddy lands a nice 48". I grab my new cutter and had it to him, fish thrashes, knocks it out of his hand and it fall clean through the net... The new cutter is spring loaded!  |
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| Yeah, guilty.There's a few stories but twist wrapping wire leaders on the water with a forceps are the funniest. Lost three. Two just went sailing and one slapped me in the face before going overboard.
Waaaaay back I was fishing with my Grand Dad and as young boys will do, got to messing around and knocked my Dad's bamboo casting rod and reel over the side. I was able to grab the line and Grand Dad's words ring in my ear to this day: "I hope your father had the good sense to tie the end of that line to spool". He did. We got the combo back and I learned how to fish a spinning rod and reel (Grand Dad's).
Also retied a leader and tossed it into the lake and had a musky hammer it 10' from the boat. |
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