Super User SirSnookalot Posted April 14, 2015 Super User Posted April 14, 2015 Was barracuda fishing with my friend Jay yesterday, tossed my tube close to a crab pot buoy. I turn to Jay and say this tube is going to be a goner, a few seconds later I hooked the buoy line. I decide to pull the pot in to shore, get within about 20' and my line breaks, hit some coral. Now I'm gonna wade out, within a few feet the water was chest level, I go back on shore. Jay says throw your grapling hook so I do, hooked on to the rope but the pot won't budge any further, I had to cut the line. So I lose both a tube and a gaff, should have waited for low tide. I stop by a canal on the way home to do some bass fishing, fishing was good. I feel a bite on my foot, yep red ants. The joke is really on me as it's the same ant hill I stepped on last week and got bit about 8 times. Am I an idiot or what? 1 Quote
grizzly1654 Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Just one of those days. Everyone has them. Its the bad days like that that make the good days even better. Quote
riverbasser13 Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Hahaha nah, that's just how it goes sometimes. Fallin asleep near or on an ant pile, now that's gettin close to idiot status. Quote
Super User Oregon Native Posted April 14, 2015 Super User Posted April 14, 2015 Hmmmmmmm.......your mind was elsewhere. I've had those days too where it's probably better to just sit in a chair and read a book...safer Quote
Super User Nitrofreak Posted April 14, 2015 Super User Posted April 14, 2015 Defiantly not an idiot , a lil absent minded maybe ? That happens from time to time at our age LOL !! But then again , you did post the same thing twice so ... Quote
jbw252 Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Chalk it up as a bad day & move on. As a BR member with over eleven thousand posts, you are NOT an idiot. Thanks for sharing the good, and the not so good posts. Quote
Super User Raider Nation Fisher Posted April 14, 2015 Super User Posted April 14, 2015 My momma said, "if you have nothing nice to say. Don't say anything at all." Besides I stepped in an ant hill and got torn up yesterday. Quote
MDBowHunter Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 FYI: Next time you get bit by fire ants, WD40 will take the sting away. Sounds crazy, but just give it a shot it works.. Quote
RAMBLER Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 First off, casting close to a crab trap or hoop net buoy is something I never do, so, to answer you question, you decide, but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Quote
Super User retiredbosn Posted April 14, 2015 Super User Posted April 14, 2015 Let's see ran a business for years successfully, retired and fish everyday. Hmmmm sounds like you're definitely on to something good. Had a bad day we all do. 3 Quote
Catch 22 Posted April 15, 2015 Posted April 15, 2015 lmao,yeah,like I never hooked crab pot rope. I got a jig hooked up near a rock jetty and back over to get it,hit a rock and severely damaged the prop BUT,I got my fifty cent lure back. Laughter is the best medicine ,even if its on your own tab. C22 Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted April 15, 2015 Author Super User Posted April 15, 2015 Believe me if one fishes enough something is going to happen, anything short of injury is just fodder for a good chuckle. Any fishing item I own can be replaced, most of it pretty quick. Bought a new grapling hook as soon as I was done fishing and made a new tube once I got home, I'm right back where I started. I could care less about losing a lure, all that matters is the thrill. Yesterday I hook into a very large fish, I don't mean 10#, maybe twice that size and it was jack. Fish takes me 50 yards this way, 50 yards another way, back and forth then decides to go into the inlet. It wraps itself around a cement pylon, a crane and steel cable could not have landed it, so I broke it off. That thrill over shadowed my loss of an $8.00 spoon, if you aren't ready to lose a lure stay home and play dominoes. I'll be back again today and don't care if I lose a lure or not. Quote
Super User .ghoti. Posted April 16, 2015 Super User Posted April 16, 2015 Yes, Sir Snook, you are an idiot. From a charter member; welcome to the club. You're in good company. Quote
RSM789 Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 Just about as I was ready to confirm your idiot status, I remembered last Saturday. Out at daybreak, going to start off with a Zara Spook, but decide to first fire a cast out into open water as far as I can to relax the monofilament on that reel. So I make this awkward cast across the boat, hook my wacky rig rod/reel and fling it into 10 feet deep water. It quickly sinks to the bottom, & I make a few unsuccessful passes over it with an umbrella rig trying to snag it. Since it is daybreak & I don't want to miss any fishing time, I note the location & start fishing, planning on swinging back by later to try to snag it. However, the entire morning, all I can think about is that pole on the bottom. It had a senko rigged up on it, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine a bass or catfish grabbing the bait and then dragging the setup who knows where. So after torturing myself for about an hour (and only catching a big bluegill who believed he could swallow a spook), I go back. I tie on a deep diving crankbait, make a few casts and snag into something unmovable. Oh crap, I suddenly realized that this is right next to a spot where I had planted a couple of Christmas trees last year. Pop goes the line, down 1 crankbait. Next up is a Carolina rig with a big treble hook on the back. Also sacrificed to the brush pile. I try another deep diving crankbait, this time an old beat up lure that I never use. Brush pile claims another victim. Fine Mr. Brushpile, I get it, you have eaten my wacky rig setup and am not getting it back. I have thrown enough good money after bad, no more. Except all day long as I fish, it continues to bug me. I miss about 10 hook sets because I am thinking about how to retrieve the rod instead of paying attention to what I am doing. So I double back, make one last pass with a football jig with no weed guard. Immediately sacrificed to the brush pile. Okay, Okay, you win. So after that debacle, I would say that you are actually a highly intelligent gentleman. Quote
Catch 22 Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 Just about as I was ready to confirm your idiot status, I remembered last Saturday. Out at daybreak, going to start off with a Zara Spook, but decide to first fire a cast out into open water as far as I can to relax the monofilament on that reel. So I make this awkward cast across the boat, hook my wacky rig rod/reel and fling it into 10 feet deep water. It quickly sinks to the bottom, & I make a few unsuccessful passes over it with an umbrella rig trying to snag it. Since it is daybreak & I don't want to miss any fishing time, I note the location & start fishing, planning on swinging back by later to try to snag it. However, the entire morning, all I can think about is that pole on the bottom. It had a senko rigged up on it, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine a bass or catfish grabbing the bait and then dragging the setup who knows where. So after torturing myself for about an hour (and only catching a big bluegill who believed he could swallow a spook), I go back. I tie on a deep diving crankbait, make a few casts and snag into something unmovable. Oh crap, I suddenly realized that this is right next to a spot where I had planted a couple of Christmas trees last year. Pop goes the line, down 1 crankbait. Next up is a Carolina rig with a big treble hook on the back. Also sacrificed to the brush pile. I try another deep diving crankbait, this time an old beat up lure that I never use. Brush pile claims another victim. Fine Mr. Brushpile, I get it, you have eaten my wacky rig setup and am not getting it back. I have thrown enough good money after bad, no more. Except all day long as I fish, it continues to bug me. I miss about 10 hook sets because I am thinking about how to retrieve the rod instead of paying attention to what I am doing. So I double back, make one last pass with a football jig with no weed guard. Immediately sacrificed to the brush pile. Okay, Okay, you win. So after that debacle, I would say that you are actually a highly intelligent gentleman. .lmao only because Iv`e been there. I tossed a $150 outfit over like you did yrs ago in fast moving tide water. Not a prayer of recovery. Quote
RSM789 Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 My comedy of errors deserves to be laughed at. Luckily the rig I tossed overboard was an older one, reel was showing its age & I used electrical tape on the reel seat to stop it from moving. I was planning on getting a new setup for wacky rigging & skipping baits, this just accelerated the timetable. I just can't figure out why i was so obsessed in trying to recover a setup that old? Maybe I am much cheaper than I realize... Quote
Super User Senko lover Posted April 18, 2015 Super User Posted April 18, 2015 My comedy of errors deserves to be laughed at. Luckily the rig I tossed overboard was an older one, reel was showing its age & I used electrical tape on the reel seat to stop it from moving. I was planning on getting a new setup for wacky rigging & skipping baits, this just accelerated the timetable. I just can't figure out why i was so obsessed in trying to recover a setup that old? Maybe I am much cheaper than I realize... One of the bait monkey's strategies. make us feel cheap. Quote
FirstnameLastname Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 Yes but not as bad as me. I don't need a story call me, meet me, and watch me try to excel in any activity involving anything from standard social conventions to activity involving hand eye coordination. It's a trip Quote
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