Halibut 1, Fisherman 0
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:31 amSo Friday I went out to the banks with my son-in-law for a little shrimping and halibut fishing.
Spent some time drifting and bouncing bait off the bottom. We caught several dogfish and one small butt we sent back to grow up. Then all of a sudden, my son-in-law's pole just gets slammed, he fights it for a few minutes, pulling lots of drag and the rod is bouncing up and down - then nothing. I figured the hooks must have pulled out or something. He reels it in and I see his spreader bar is broken. It wasn't very old, and only been in the water once or twice, and hadn't caught a fish or been snagged on the bottom. Has this ever happened to anyone else? If so, this could be another good reason to use the tuna cord set up Robbo & Nelly talk about in their video. Recently one of my regular fishing buddies and I have been talking about critical points of failure that can cause you to loose a big one (bad swivels, old or nicked line, etc.) I might add spreader bars to this list!
Still, we had a nice day on the water and came home with two limits of shrimp.
L8R
Dan
Spent some time drifting and bouncing bait off the bottom. We caught several dogfish and one small butt we sent back to grow up. Then all of a sudden, my son-in-law's pole just gets slammed, he fights it for a few minutes, pulling lots of drag and the rod is bouncing up and down - then nothing. I figured the hooks must have pulled out or something. He reels it in and I see his spreader bar is broken. It wasn't very old, and only been in the water once or twice, and hadn't caught a fish or been snagged on the bottom. Has this ever happened to anyone else? If so, this could be another good reason to use the tuna cord set up Robbo & Nelly talk about in their video. Recently one of my regular fishing buddies and I have been talking about critical points of failure that can cause you to loose a big one (bad swivels, old or nicked line, etc.) I might add spreader bars to this list!
Still, we had a nice day on the water and came home with two limits of shrimp.
L8R
Dan
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