04-24-2006, 01:14 AM
You did it now, you went to the dark side with the "coencidence" stories. [cool]
I remember years ago fishing a King Mackeral Tournament off of Myrtle Beach State Park peir, this must have been 8 years back. I had a live Pogey on my line that I had just sent down to his water death.(so I hoped) I lowered him down on the float rig and made sure he was at the depth I wanted, you couldn't have asked for a prettier bait. Little did I know, however, the last jerk I gave to let line out on the reel, I had accidentally got the line rapped around the tip on the rod. And I didn't realize it until about an hour later when a small king grabbed the bait, and instead of hearing the clicker singing away, I heard the splash of my rod and reel as it got drug over the rail. There are no words for how
I was that day, and I had no spare rod and reel either.
The catch to the story is that a few days later I went over to the peir just to chit chat with the guys on the end to see how the fishing was going. I had mentioned my reel going over the side a few days past and a old man in the area asked me to describe the reel. I explained to him that it was a black in color Penn 4/0 reel with white colored line on it attached to an old fiberglass rod with stainless eyes. The old man laughed and said that just yesterday he snagged my rod and reel while he was fishing off of the end of the peir. He said he hooked it through the tip, the smallest eye. Can you believe that? I've snagged rods that i've accidentally thrown over the side of the peir before with gaff hooks, but I figured that reel would have been long gone attached to a king. [cool]
That would have been a heck of a thing to catch while you were bottom fishing eh?
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I remember years ago fishing a King Mackeral Tournament off of Myrtle Beach State Park peir, this must have been 8 years back. I had a live Pogey on my line that I had just sent down to his water death.(so I hoped) I lowered him down on the float rig and made sure he was at the depth I wanted, you couldn't have asked for a prettier bait. Little did I know, however, the last jerk I gave to let line out on the reel, I had accidentally got the line rapped around the tip on the rod. And I didn't realize it until about an hour later when a small king grabbed the bait, and instead of hearing the clicker singing away, I heard the splash of my rod and reel as it got drug over the rail. There are no words for how
I was that day, and I had no spare rod and reel either. The catch to the story is that a few days later I went over to the peir just to chit chat with the guys on the end to see how the fishing was going. I had mentioned my reel going over the side a few days past and a old man in the area asked me to describe the reel. I explained to him that it was a black in color Penn 4/0 reel with white colored line on it attached to an old fiberglass rod with stainless eyes. The old man laughed and said that just yesterday he snagged my rod and reel while he was fishing off of the end of the peir. He said he hooked it through the tip, the smallest eye. Can you believe that? I've snagged rods that i've accidentally thrown over the side of the peir before with gaff hooks, but I figured that reel would have been long gone attached to a king. [cool]
That would have been a heck of a thing to catch while you were bottom fishing eh?
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