Post by picklehead on Apr 23, 2023 10:35:30 GMT -5
This morning was one of those that will make you cry, laugh, curse and want to scream. I was setting on a rock wall when a shadow caught my eye. Thought it was just the sun going behind a cloud and water fooling me at first. A few minutes later, I seen what I though I saw. A huge trout was going back and forth from open water, to under tunnel. I tossed the bait under tunnel and got a bite. It was a 11" brown and big one, disappeared. I went other side of tunnel and drifted the bait to about mid-point and got a bite. Heck yeah and I have my hands full. Whatever flavor it was, took off like a damn drag car and we are having some major fun at this point of time. 45 seconds or so passed and I have not gained a single inch of line back on reel yet. This is fairly deep water for a creek and wide open, with only ONE structure on the right side of tunnel. We know what big fish do 99% of the time and that is,, head for brush, structures and cover. The smart fish did just that a few seconds later and I done all I could to keep he or she away. Auto pilot set in, on the first two seconds of fight and I automatically set drag for task at hand. No more drag could be used for line size and held rod tip high / left, all I could. No stopping this one or changing direction of run.
I knew soon as it got in the limb and could feel the line friction on it. At this point, don't think I will not go swimming for a fish of a Lifetime and was almost placing foot in water, when the line broke. Not sure how big this trout was but it wasn't any 3 or 4 pound one. What could I have done different is in my mind and eating away. Should have I let pressure off of fish and hope it comes out of limb or keep pressure on? Should I have thought faster and threw a rock at tree when fish was heading to it? Who knows and wasn't my day to catch that fish,, is what I think. To rub it in some, the fish stayed about 15 feet away from me, about 3 feet down, under tunnel and could see it,, after breaking me off LMAO.
I knew soon as it got in the limb and could feel the line friction on it. At this point, don't think I will not go swimming for a fish of a Lifetime and was almost placing foot in water, when the line broke. Not sure how big this trout was but it wasn't any 3 or 4 pound one. What could I have done different is in my mind and eating away. Should have I let pressure off of fish and hope it comes out of limb or keep pressure on? Should I have thought faster and threw a rock at tree when fish was heading to it? Who knows and wasn't my day to catch that fish,, is what I think. To rub it in some, the fish stayed about 15 feet away from me, about 3 feet down, under tunnel and could see it,, after breaking me off LMAO.