Super User Catch and Grease Posted June 30, 2014 Super User Posted June 30, 2014 What do you guys do when a fish bites your lure right at the boat just feet away? It happens to me with bass but yesterday I lost what was probably the biggest bowfin I've ever had on my line because he bite my lure just feet from the boat, I set the hook and had him hooked and tryed to keep pressure but he gator rolled like they do an threw it out.... Quote
Super User Sam Posted June 30, 2014 Super User Posted June 30, 2014 I scream and set the hook, hard. Happened to me on the Pamunkey River last week. During low tide I was throwing semi-parallel to the bank when my crankbait was at the boat and I was getting ready to lift it out of the water. From no where this river bass came crashing to the top of the water and inhaled the crank. Scared me at first but I managed to set the hook and throw the bass into the boat with one motion. Made me realize that as long as the bait is in the water it is "live" and you have to pay attention. This is not the first time this has occurred. It has happened to me two other times but with plastics. Just remember, as long as the bait is in the water you have to pay attention to it. Quote
Super User Lund Explorer Posted June 30, 2014 Super User Posted June 30, 2014 Have you ever watched those crazy people who figure 8 a big crankbait for a musky to hit right at the boat? If you have you drag set correctly, bow to the fish and hang on! Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted June 30, 2014 Author Super User Posted June 30, 2014 Have you ever watched those crazy people who figure 8 a big crankbait for a musky to hit right at the boat? If you have you drag set correctly, bow to the fish and hang on! I have seen this... Its pretty freaking cool haha Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted June 30, 2014 Super User Posted June 30, 2014 Just for the record many of those guys figure 8-ing have the reel in free spool with their thumb on the spool. 2 Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted June 30, 2014 Super User Posted June 30, 2014 This girl hit my scrounger/fluke literally right when I was pulling it out of the water. Maybe a foot of line out. Scared the you know what out of me, but I was happy to land her! Jeff 3 Quote
Mccallister25 Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Has Jeff ever caught a small fish in his life?!?! You sir, catch more on accident than I ever do while trying. 3 Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted June 30, 2014 Author Super User Posted June 30, 2014 Just for the record many of those guys figure 8-ing have the reel in free spool with their thumb on the spool. That would make sense, didn't know they did that though. Quote
Super User BassinLou Posted June 30, 2014 Super User Posted June 30, 2014 This 5lbr struck my frog in the glades last month, right as I was pulling my frog out of the water. Fortunately I was fishing with my Dobyns champion 736, because that fish couldn't go anywhere but in my boat... LOL.... Quote
kfelton0002 Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 I've had fish just explode right out of the water and crush a topwater frog just a few feet from where I was standing. Its pretty awesome! Scares a few years off your life if you're not paying attention. Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted July 1, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 1, 2014 Well the fish I lost I felt him tapping my worm under the boat and set the hook but pulled it right out of his mouth, I flipped it back directly below the boat and he took it again but I lost em... Quote
Fish Murderer 71 Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 and that sir, is why I keep a soft drag set on my reel. I had the biggest bass I've ever seen smash a worm at the boat and she swam off with it. just stood there and almost cried... I'm pretty sure people on the other end of the lake heard the four letter word I said a moment later. Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted July 1, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 1, 2014 a little drag got pulled... I think it was just meant to be lost haha I was gonna try to just Hercules him in the boat but as soon as I started to lift him out of the water he was off Quote
Super User everythingthatswims Posted July 1, 2014 Super User Posted July 1, 2014 I figure 8 squarebills when they follow it in and I actually have caught some fish, you just gotta keep the rod out of the water. When my bait gets close to my rod tip I stop winding with about 3 feet of line out and swing my rod to the boat (or bank) to finish the retrieve that way if a fish grabs it I have at least a little line out. Doing that is crucial when wade fishing frogs, bass will come right up to you in the pads and catch you off guard! Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted July 1, 2014 Super User Posted July 1, 2014 Has Jeff ever caught a small fish in his life?!?! You sir, catch more on accident than I ever do while trying. Of course I do, I just don't take pics or post about them! :eyebrows: Jeff 2 Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted July 1, 2014 Author Super User Posted July 1, 2014 Now that's what you call a reaction strike! He ran that thing really fast over that bass but it had some accuracy haha that's a sweet video Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted July 1, 2014 Super User Posted July 1, 2014 This girl hit my scrounger/fluke literally right when I was pulling it out of the water. Maybe a foot of line out. Scared the you know what out of me, but I was happy to land her! Jeff Nice picture Jeff. 2 Quote
Dinky Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Sometimes you can do nothing. Last January in Brazil a large Peacock Bass exploded on my top water lure about five feet from the boat. Yes it would have been better if I had been able to simultaneously ease off the drag and dip my rod down, but nay, nay, neither happened and the fish continued under the boat and the lure flew up with a straightened treble. In my defense, I didn't realize it was a fish at first, I thought someone had thrown a bowling ball at me and missed! Quote
TrippyJai Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 If there was a situation where a crankbait rod would benefit most, it's when the fish is close to the boat and makes a run for it. That give on the rod won't tear the hooks out. Quote
tatertester Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 The boatside strike is a time when ALL your equipment, rod, reel , and line are tested....The sudden surge on short line usually relies on a good knot and smooth drag set properly(or free spool) , rod strength , hook strength, and an angler awareness to land the bass........The worst feeling is when you lift the rod and there on the end of the line is this curly-q where the knot failed......AAAAAAAAH!......I bet many don't have the drag set properly?....I know I sometimes forget to recheck the drag ,and am reminded when a solid strike happens......You may be using a knot that works just fine, UNTIL it doesn't, when that hog slams your lure. Quote
Super User BassinLou Posted July 1, 2014 Super User Posted July 1, 2014 Saw this on Youtube. This video was posted from one of our very own BR members last year I think. I think it was Russ048. I could be mistaken. Quote
hookset on 3 Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 The boatside strike is a time when ALL your equipment, rod, reel , and line are tested....The sudden surge on short line usually relies on a good knot and smooth drag set properly(or free spool) , rod strength , hook strength, and an angler awareness to land the bass........The worst feeling is when you lift the rod and there on the end of the line is this curly-q where the knot failed......AAAAAAAAH!......I bet many don't have the drag set properly?....I know I sometimes forget to recheck the drag ,and am reminded when a solid strike happens......You may be using a knot that works just fine, UNTIL it doesn't, when that hog slams your lure. Those big lunkers will totally break your heart. Like you said, if there is one minor flaw in all those variables, the big girls will exploit it. That's a huge part of why I and a lot of other anglers, are hoping to catch that giant. Quick story: Hooked a hawg at my feet while wade fishing a small pond that had a drain pipe connecting it to another larger pond nearby. Anyway, I'm standing in the water about 30 feet from this pipe and wouldn't you know it, this lunker made a beeline right for it and got half way inside. Somehow my 12lb flouro held and I was able to pull her back out and finally land her. Tell me that fish didn't know Exactly what it was trying to do. Quote
missouribigbass Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 Happened to me yesterday I yanked to set the hook slapped my uncle right across the face with my worm. Yes I missed him Quote
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