Snagging old fishing line

[waymont]

I was recently on a fairly busy lake, fishing from a boat. The water was down a little from usual, allowing more visuals of cover that would normally be hidden from sight. I was having a pretty good day using a jig fishing some newly found cover. One thing though, I pulled up about 300' of old line from other fishermen/women's snags. I pulled up some T rigs, old rusty spinners, and a rapala crank. The thing that was strange was all of them had about 40-60' of line attached. These were all being fished from a boat according to where the locations were, so who ever snagged could have gone over and undone their snag, or at least limited the amount of line left hanging in the water. This has happened to me two other times at this lake. I always make it  point to limit my line if I can't get it unsnagged. I hope you boat anglers do the same.

[scaleface]

Last week I lost one of my favorite discontinued crankbait to a stump that had heavy fishing line all over it . The catfisherman from bank  keep snagging on it and breaking off . I was using a lure retriever and kept bringing up wads of line but could not free that crankbait .

[ABart61]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Last week I lost one of my favorite discontinued crankbait to a stump that had heavy fishing line all over it . The catfisherman from bank  keep snagging on it and breaking off . I was using a lure retriever and kept bringing up wads of line but could not free that crankbait .

Ive gotten a squarebill snagged on a limb. Gone back three months later. Knocked off that old squarebill while throwing a different squarebill. Got it back and put it right back in the box. After changing hooks of course.  

[Angry John]

This happens to me a lot as I fish small ponds where most people shore fish.  I do my part and get as much line as possible out of the water and recycle any lead I find for bullets.  Clean is nice, and the amount of trash around Memphis makes me sad.

[Bankc]

I got a chatterbait stuck on some old fishing line a few months ago in a small lake about twenty feet from the bank.  I was on shore and there were several bass raiders and jon boats out fishing the area.  When I pulled on my line tightly, trying to free it, the lure would jump up out of the water and if I kept the line tight, I was able to suspend the lure in air just above the surface.  I spent a good bit of time waiting for boats to pass by near it and then popping it up and down out of the water to startle and confuse the passers-by.  The reactions were all pretty much the same.  "Is that a fish jumping?" followed by I "Wait, is that thing just hovering over the water?" followed by, "Oh, it's that guy on the bank that is doing that!  That was freaking me out for a minute!" 

 

 

[Black Hawk Basser]

My friend just cast his bait into the end of a tree limb last night and got it caught on a wad of line already on the limb.  He started whipping his pole around to yank his bait off, and right before I said "Don't break your pole"....snap, 3 inches down from the tip.  Good thing he knows a guy that can repair rods. ?

[Jleebesaw]

I pulled up what felt like a mile of braid last weekend. It had a texas rig with a black with blue flake senko and a tungsten weight. So i got a free weight for my effort at least! 

       Like you though, i wondered how all that line got left there. Thats like $5 worth of line!

[Bankbeater]

A couple of years ago I snagged line. Turned out it was a spool of mono that someone had dropped overboard. 

[scaleface]

That fishing line fools me all the time . I set the hook on it and fight it for a little bit before cussing .

[Bluebasser86]

I pulled probably 50-70 yards of about 80lb solar green braid that was attached to a homemade weight that was in the 8oz range, tied to some limb line string, anchoring down a circle hook around 12/0 size from a small city lake a couple weeks ago. The braid was floating and I just barely saw the end of it, had I not, someone motoring through the middle of the lake likely would have ended up with it all in their prop.

 

I'm not sure what they think lives in there. I've seen some 40-50 pound flatheads but this would have handled a fish twice that size no problem.