Heart breaker ( well line breaker actually)

[DitchPanda]

  Got out fairly early this morning to try and beat the heat. Rolled up to my first spot...a nice rock jetty lined with chunk rock and broken concrete. Off the end of said jetty a decent cast length away is a brush pile. The shorelines close by are also rip rap.

  So I try a swim bait and popper along the shores and down the sides of the jetty with no takers. Moved out to the end and started working the brush. I ran the swim bait along side with nothing. Switch to a weightless senko and first cast get the telltale thunk, line swims off and hammer the hook home. Feel a good heavy fish surging to the surface and a 4lber comes rocketing out of the water.

  Fish is fighting harder than normal...I've caught my share of 4s...even jumping again so I take my time and enjoy the battle. Then it happens...I've got her near shore and I take a minute to assess do I swing this girl or where can I get down without slipping on a rock?...take my eyes off her for a second she surges basically at my feet line touches a piece of cutoff rebar and game over.

  If I woulda watched what I was doing instead of looking away like a dumba$% I woulda had fish in hand instead of another one that got away story. After all these years you think you'd know better...but just when you think you got it figured old mother nature humbles you.

[Dwight Hottle]

Look on the bright side it was only a four pounder instead of a PB. 

[DitchPanda]

14 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Look on the bright side it was only a four pounder instead of a PB. 

True story. To be fair if it was a PB you guys would never hear about it. I'd delete my account then go in my back yard and burn all my gear.

[ghost123123]

Yeah, and then a couple of weeks later the bug would get you.    Then you would have to go and buy all new gear cause you know that giant is still out there and you could catch her again.

[roadwarrior]

You saw the fish and then "quick release". I think you can count that as a catch.

 

[DitchPanda]

1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

You saw the fish and then "quick release". I think you can count that as a catch.

 

Ha good point. Nice positive spin...I suddenly feel much better. Thank you!

[TnRiver46]

You got all the fun part out of the fish, you just didn’t want to get your hands all slimy 

[DaubsNU1]

Aaaaaaa man....bummer! 

 

Respect for posting here about this fish!  

 

Better days ahead...fully expect you to be back here in a week or two with a "big-fish-story."  

 

 

[N Florida Mike]

You had enough fishing wisdom to ever hook it in the first place. That in itself is a victory…

[GreenPig]

The GreenPig Fishing Foundation will happily take donations of anything related to bass fishing.? Everybody wants to put hands on the big girls.