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We went out Sunday 9/1 from around 1800 to dark. Tide was high, nice water level, clouds moved in, very few boats, good conditions.
My son was fishing a weightless Gulp MotorOil worm, guess the hook had pulled through the worm fishing the pad edge. While retrieving a beaver swam in front of the worm. He somehow snagged the beaver. Beaver procededs to freak out, jumping and thrashing about, only lasts for a few seconds, seemed a lot longer. We both just looked at each other with our mouths open like WTF
, did that just happen. Another beaver, perhaps the same beaver, scared the crap out of us earllier. It surfaced about 3' from us, turned around and left a giant hole in the water, don't know who was more scared.
My son boated one 18" LMB (Gulp MotorOil worm, no weight) , I boated a 12"(Split tail swim fluke, white) and 18" (Club tail fluke, white) LMB, lost three LMB, had them hooked for a while, one jumped and threw the hook. Lost 3rd LMB at boatside, may have been my PR Mattawoman LMB. Fish hit hard and pulled even harder,swam back for cover, fought him out. Swam back at me, under the boat, couldn't reel fast enough, got him away from the boat, my son grabbed the line and went for the fish, hard to grab the mouth, fished wrapped in hydrilla, line popped, fish Bye Bye. Was fishing a White Fluke club tail, using 8 lb mono, I'm sure it was pretty thin from the days fishing. Switching over to braid for all my Mattowoman fishing. Got a good look at the LMB, was at least 22", could have topped 4 lbs. Still reliving that one, wish I had a net with me.
Dave
We went out Sunday 9/1 from around 1800 to dark. Tide was high, nice water level, clouds moved in, very few boats, good conditions.
My son was fishing a weightless Gulp MotorOil worm, guess the hook had pulled through the worm fishing the pad edge. While retrieving a beaver swam in front of the worm. He somehow snagged the beaver. Beaver procededs to freak out, jumping and thrashing about, only lasts for a few seconds, seemed a lot longer. We both just looked at each other with our mouths open like WTF
, did that just happen. Another beaver, perhaps the same beaver, scared the crap out of us earllier. It surfaced about 3' from us, turned around and left a giant hole in the water, don't know who was more scared.My son boated one 18" LMB (Gulp MotorOil worm, no weight) , I boated a 12"(Split tail swim fluke, white) and 18" (Club tail fluke, white) LMB, lost three LMB, had them hooked for a while, one jumped and threw the hook. Lost 3rd LMB at boatside, may have been my PR Mattawoman LMB. Fish hit hard and pulled even harder,swam back for cover, fought him out. Swam back at me, under the boat, couldn't reel fast enough, got him away from the boat, my son grabbed the line and went for the fish, hard to grab the mouth, fished wrapped in hydrilla, line popped, fish Bye Bye. Was fishing a White Fluke club tail, using 8 lb mono, I'm sure it was pretty thin from the days fishing. Switching over to braid for all my Mattowoman fishing. Got a good look at the LMB, was at least 22", could have topped 4 lbs. Still reliving that one, wish I had a net with me.
Dave