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Traffic has been a bitch lately & it took me 2 hours to get go my launch site.
I arrived @ high tide & I made casts for about an hour during slack tide but as soon as it started to move out all hell broke loose with torpedos & rocket airs by snakeheads & LMbass. I netted 1monster LM that measured but 17.5" but it was built like a football. It was exciting having another wake coming at the bait so I paused it & then wham.....a snakehead! Another cast & a snakehead rocketed from heavy cover in the air to devour my frog. Other times they seem to be just slamming my bait for they must've been protecting fry. I even had them striking several times but not actually biting the bait. My medium rod's line got all tangled up so I retired it for the eve & just used my ultralight rod. Another cast & a snakehead slams my bait & rockets out of the water, lands w/a big belly flop, & spits the hook. A lil commotion further away & I cast my bait as far as I can & Jackpot! It gets hit by an atomic bomb. Then I realize my 2-pc ul rod is in 2 pieces. I start reeling my line in to get the 2nd half of my rod in my hand to put it together whilst my line is swimming away. Once together again, I reel in that fish but it jumps 4x w/o becoming unglued. I net it & roughly measure 17.5" but it's built like a football & fat! As I go to grip the fish it opens its mouth & out comes my bait which was never hooked. Wow!Then I hear a bunch of loud commotion & this seems to spook the fish. It turns out that the spookmasters have arrived....then, as fast as they arrived.....they disappear they zoom off in a no wake zone. As the light starts to fade some noisy peeps start to unload their boats. Soon the sky is lit up like a huge wildfire burning on the horizon- 3 spotlighting bowfish boats have converged to destroy the tranquility & peace I was enjoying w/ their noisy generators. I called it a day & loaded up. The bright lights blinded the heck out of me from the bowfishers boats AND the huge cloud of skeeters & bugs that followed those boats made me want to get away from those boats or I'd be eaten alive by the bugs. All 5 of my snakeheads & the 1LMB were safely released to be caught another day.
I arrived @ high tide & I made casts for about an hour during slack tide but as soon as it started to move out all hell broke loose with torpedos & rocket airs by snakeheads & LMbass. I netted 1monster LM that measured but 17.5" but it was built like a football. It was exciting having another wake coming at the bait so I paused it & then wham.....a snakehead! Another cast & a snakehead rocketed from heavy cover in the air to devour my frog. Other times they seem to be just slamming my bait for they must've been protecting fry. I even had them striking several times but not actually biting the bait. My medium rod's line got all tangled up so I retired it for the eve & just used my ultralight rod. Another cast & a snakehead slams my bait & rockets out of the water, lands w/a big belly flop, & spits the hook. A lil commotion further away & I cast my bait as far as I can & Jackpot! It gets hit by an atomic bomb. Then I realize my 2-pc ul rod is in 2 pieces. I start reeling my line in to get the 2nd half of my rod in my hand to put it together whilst my line is swimming away. Once together again, I reel in that fish but it jumps 4x w/o becoming unglued. I net it & roughly measure 17.5" but it's built like a football & fat! As I go to grip the fish it opens its mouth & out comes my bait which was never hooked. Wow!Then I hear a bunch of loud commotion & this seems to spook the fish. It turns out that the spookmasters have arrived....then, as fast as they arrived.....they disappear they zoom off in a no wake zone. As the light starts to fade some noisy peeps start to unload their boats. Soon the sky is lit up like a huge wildfire burning on the horizon- 3 spotlighting bowfish boats have converged to destroy the tranquility & peace I was enjoying w/ their noisy generators. I called it a day & loaded up. The bright lights blinded the heck out of me from the bowfishers boats AND the huge cloud of skeeters & bugs that followed those boats made me want to get away from those boats or I'd be eaten alive by the bugs. All 5 of my snakeheads & the 1LMB were safely released to be caught another day.
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