How to lose a fish!

[-nick-]

So yesterday morning I got up early to do some fishing. I get there and start off with a cavitron, but it obviously wasn't a topwater type of morning so I went on to the old reliable 4" stik-o with a 1/8 finesse bps shakey head with a little jjs on the tip (this is the most simple easiest way to catch a fish, it might be small but it always works). Anyways a couple casts in I get a hit but it was as i was lifting up the bait so I didn't have a chance to get a good hookset so it got off after a couple seconds of fighting it but it felt pretty solid. So i cast back out in the same spot and i get it again but this time i got a good hookset in and was fighting it for a bit until it swam straight for the massive weeds. It dug itself in there deep and i tried pulling him out but my berkley cherrywood and 8lb line couldnt handle it so the line broke. I know this was a solid fish because i couldn't even pull it close enough to the surface to get a look while i was fighting her and its pretty clear water so i didn't have to pull her too close. Anyways then I'm casting out my sweet little spro aruku and reeing it up until its almost in and right when my lure gets in sight i see this mouth of at least a 3lb bass snap at it and i felt it on the rod but it was too close to shore by then and he must have realized. So fish lost numero dos. Then I tossed a wacky rigged stik o out there and put my rod down so i could organize my stuff back up and my rod got a hit and moved across the ground i pick up the rod set the hook, feel him jerk, then he's gone. THEN a little bit later i was using the wacky rigged stik o again, and got a hit while i had the rod in my hands and went to set the hook, and the drag was so loose it didn't set so needless to say he got away. Overall yesterday morning, i only caught 2 fish, and lost 4 within 3 hours. Not a good morning. >

[32251]

Hey, you are getting bites!  Look at it that way.

Next time you go, the experience you had will pay off in lessons learned.

Sounds like you are a bank fisherman. I fished from the bank for a while. I learned a couple of things. Don't fish with light line and when the fish burys in the  weeds, you cannot pull him out.  You have to just wait until he starts to move. I have waited them out sometimes for 30 minutes.  Just set your rod down and open the bail so the line is slack and pretty soon the fish will move.  

Move up to 10 or 12 lb line so you can horse the fish out of the weeds or grass.  Also never fish with your best expensive lures from the bank. You get hung up, you can't move over them with a lure knocker like you can with a boat.

Go on Craigslist.  Find you a cheap jon boat.  You will be one happy camper!

[-nick-]

Hey, you are getting bites! Look at it that way.

Next time you go, the experience you had will pay off in lessons learned.

Sounds like you are a bank fisherman. I fished from the bank for a while. I learned a couple of things. Don't fish with light line and when the fish burys in the weeds, you cannot pull him out. You have to just wait until he starts to move. I have waited them out sometimes for 30 minutes. Just set your rod down and open the bail so the line is slack and pretty soon the fish will move.

Move up to 10 or 12 lb line so you can horse the fish out of the weeds or grass. Also never fish with your best expensive lures from the bank. You get hung up, you can't move over them with a lure knocker like you can with a boat.

Go on Craigslist. Find you a cheap jon boat. You will be one happy camper!

Well if you saw the bank i fish from you'd see that you really can't loose a lure unless you toss it near the drain thing which the hooks can get caught on. But yeah theres a little lake that i would rent a jon boat with my friend and fish from and it was good stuff, but the simplest and most convenient way is to fish from this bank. No matter what line i had i wouldn't have been able to get that sucker out i was using my flemsy berkley rod as i wasn't expecting to catch anything over a pound and a half at most.  

[skillet]

 Probably the one thing about bass fishing that I don't need help with, "How to lose a fish!" ...

skillet

[mrlitetackle]

hey, we all know the feeling.....

but look at it this way man,

you still caught 2 fish....

imagine how bad it would have sucked if you got the old goose egg for the day after those events

[-nick-]

hey, we all know the feeling.....

but look at it this way man,

you still caught 2 fish....

imagine how bad it would have sucked if you got the old goose egg for the day after those events

This is true. That'd be like adding salt to an open wound.