08-31-2003, 03:50 PM
your area has them big old snappers thats for sure . i renember when i was about 12 or 13 going out on one of thoes lakes over there on a innertube . it was about mid afternoon . (it had a long narrow pathway to the lake , which lale i don't know )
anyways all the sudden this big old snapper with a head as big as a coffee can was right beside me and started bighting the tube . i can only asume that the critter saw the sillioute from the bottom and thought i was another turtle coming into his teritory . well he darn near had the tube half way under when it blew up , i abandoned the craft at his first bite needless to say , it was a long swim back to shore .
i never went back to that lake to swim again .
did you ever try to catch that thing ? maybe use a whole chicken from the store and a tow truck ? snappers like you guys have will need something that big . i wouldn't try to get him from the dock , you probbably would have an experiance like the two fishermen in the "jaws " movie , one less dock too !
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anyways all the sudden this big old snapper with a head as big as a coffee can was right beside me and started bighting the tube . i can only asume that the critter saw the sillioute from the bottom and thought i was another turtle coming into his teritory . well he darn near had the tube half way under when it blew up , i abandoned the craft at his first bite needless to say , it was a long swim back to shore .
i never went back to that lake to swim again .
did you ever try to catch that thing ? maybe use a whole chicken from the store and a tow truck ? snappers like you guys have will need something that big . i wouldn't try to get him from the dock , you probbably would have an experiance like the two fishermen in the "jaws " movie , one less dock too !
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