05-27-2022, 02:02 PM
Thanks, 2knots. I had three smallies on that were in the three-pound range, but lost two at the boat due to allowing a fraction of a second of slack reaching for the net. Funny how the dinks all get solidly hooked but the biguns manage to be only slightly pinned, ain't it? The one I landed had the Ned rig fall out in the net. I think they chomp down and hold so hard that the hook never gets really set - then they open up that maw when the line slacks and...