09-14-2011, 03:38 PM
I'm pretty sure it was a rebuke. Telling me to go find my lure on the fish I murdered is kinda hard to interpret any other way. [
] But that's okay. I was ill prepared, so I can accept some righteous indignation.
As a point of clarification, though, it wasn't as though I had NO game plan. I had 3 (good) rods rigged with steel leader. Had my gloves. Had my needle nose pliers. I had anticipated grabbing any potential TM's by the gillplates. After seeing all those teeth and 2 pointy treble hooks thrashing about, however, I opted to avoid self-impalement and try for the tail grab... Unfortunately, the rod I hooked him on was an $8 clearance combo I found at Kmart last week, and it just couldn't withstand multiple brief runs by the fish while I hoped to wear it down...
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] But that's okay. I was ill prepared, so I can accept some righteous indignation.As a point of clarification, though, it wasn't as though I had NO game plan. I had 3 (good) rods rigged with steel leader. Had my gloves. Had my needle nose pliers. I had anticipated grabbing any potential TM's by the gillplates. After seeing all those teeth and 2 pointy treble hooks thrashing about, however, I opted to avoid self-impalement and try for the tail grab... Unfortunately, the rod I hooked him on was an $8 clearance combo I found at Kmart last week, and it just couldn't withstand multiple brief runs by the fish while I hoped to wear it down...
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