06-05-2009, 01:23 AM
MORAL OF THIS STORY, USE NEW LEADERS IN GOOD SHAPE!
Hit Pineview today. Fishing from shore this time. Finally found an opening to fish through some trees in the same area I had a follow about a month back. Dang that water is HIGH! I was fishing by 1:30 pm. Within about 5 - 10 minutes of casting the J-9 rapala I started seeing some big flashes of yellow around my lure at this certain spot. I cast again and saw the same thing. On the third cast I had a hard sideswipe strike and saw the fish. It bit the front end of the lure and part of the leader. Was a good size one too. Went to set the hook and my line flipped right back at me! As my luck would have it it turns out I was using an older wire leader I had previously strained with some heavy rock snags. It was probably frayed but stupid me didn't check. The snap swivel had come off.
Now I had mixed emotions, feeling optimistic about the water being warmer and having more cooperative tiger muskies, but felt bad about a nice tiger swimmin around with a big lure stuck in its mouth. Then I looked to my left and saw my lure bobbing in the waves. Thankfully I didn't get a good set before the leader broke. I waited for the waves to bring it to shore then scooped the lure up with the giant net that should have been holding a fine tiger musky specimen.
The rest of the day was hell. The waders sprung a leak and I got soaked in them. I toughed it out without waders (barefoot on the rocks) for a few more hours. No more bites. Even tried making some of them mad with a buzzbait to see if that would work. Nothing. Then I snagged one of my fav lures in a tree. I got even wetter saving it from the clutches of the evil branch, and then I lost my truck keys somehow. I eventually found them on the shore, and decided to call it quits before my temper got the best of me. I'll hit the area yet again sometime soon, better prepared, with my boat. It's too flooded to try shore fishing at the moment.
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Hit Pineview today. Fishing from shore this time. Finally found an opening to fish through some trees in the same area I had a follow about a month back. Dang that water is HIGH! I was fishing by 1:30 pm. Within about 5 - 10 minutes of casting the J-9 rapala I started seeing some big flashes of yellow around my lure at this certain spot. I cast again and saw the same thing. On the third cast I had a hard sideswipe strike and saw the fish. It bit the front end of the lure and part of the leader. Was a good size one too. Went to set the hook and my line flipped right back at me! As my luck would have it it turns out I was using an older wire leader I had previously strained with some heavy rock snags. It was probably frayed but stupid me didn't check. The snap swivel had come off.
Now I had mixed emotions, feeling optimistic about the water being warmer and having more cooperative tiger muskies, but felt bad about a nice tiger swimmin around with a big lure stuck in its mouth. Then I looked to my left and saw my lure bobbing in the waves. Thankfully I didn't get a good set before the leader broke. I waited for the waves to bring it to shore then scooped the lure up with the giant net that should have been holding a fine tiger musky specimen.
The rest of the day was hell. The waders sprung a leak and I got soaked in them. I toughed it out without waders (barefoot on the rocks) for a few more hours. No more bites. Even tried making some of them mad with a buzzbait to see if that would work. Nothing. Then I snagged one of my fav lures in a tree. I got even wetter saving it from the clutches of the evil branch, and then I lost my truck keys somehow. I eventually found them on the shore, and decided to call it quits before my temper got the best of me. I'll hit the area yet again sometime soon, better prepared, with my boat. It's too flooded to try shore fishing at the moment.
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