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In early May, my buddy and I put the boat in Buckhorn Reservoir. Spent all day reeling in bass from 1-4 pounds. Love spawning bass action. Just my total on the day was over 30. We each lost several fish right at the boat due to snapped lines/throwing the hook. I lost a 10+ lb blackfish right as I was trying to grab the hook with a pair of pliers to pull him out of the water (massive teeth). Had one massive bass right at the edge of the boat with my hand reached down to lip him. He went on one last run and screamed drag out, wrapped the line on the motor under the boat and broke off
. Needless to say, we felt very disgusted not being able to get these large fish in the boat.
Some of you may be saying to yourselves these guys are amateurs that do not know how to set drag. How old was your line? This is not the case. We both literally put brand new 12 lb flouro on our gear the night before. I was using a 6' Shimano Medium Fast with a Penn FRC 4000 and he had a Abu Garcia Pro Max on a 6'6" Tech Spec Black. We both grew up bass fishing and pretty much know how to catch bass year around. I've personally landed a 6 lb largemouth on ultralight spinning tackle. It wasn't a drag/equipment issue. Now on with the story.
The next day we headed straight to Dick's to get a net. We figured if we can get them to the boat, we'll scoop them into the boat. We got one of those nice collapsible ones that cost like 50 bucks. Ever since putting the net in the boat, we have landed maybe 4 fish total in about 10 trips to the water. Some of these trips have been 5 plus hours. And none of them required a net to land. All less than a pound. I keep telling him the net is cursed and we need to get rid of it. We even joked about it the night we picked it up. "Now that we have this nice net we aren't going to catch $***". Which has been the case.
Has anyone else ever experienced this? I know the net isn't cursed but some would say otherwise. I'm sure a combination of weather, time of day, presentation, lure selection, etc. is responsible for the lack of luck. But has anyone else gone out and purchased a net and then had crappy luck the next few times you took your boat out. We've had great success bank fishing (no net around). But as soon as we get on the boat with the net, nothing.
Some of you may be saying to yourselves these guys are amateurs that do not know how to set drag. How old was your line? This is not the case. We both literally put brand new 12 lb flouro on our gear the night before. I was using a 6' Shimano Medium Fast with a Penn FRC 4000 and he had a Abu Garcia Pro Max on a 6'6" Tech Spec Black. We both grew up bass fishing and pretty much know how to catch bass year around. I've personally landed a 6 lb largemouth on ultralight spinning tackle. It wasn't a drag/equipment issue. Now on with the story.
The next day we headed straight to Dick's to get a net. We figured if we can get them to the boat, we'll scoop them into the boat. We got one of those nice collapsible ones that cost like 50 bucks. Ever since putting the net in the boat, we have landed maybe 4 fish total in about 10 trips to the water. Some of these trips have been 5 plus hours. And none of them required a net to land. All less than a pound. I keep telling him the net is cursed and we need to get rid of it. We even joked about it the night we picked it up. "Now that we have this nice net we aren't going to catch $***". Which has been the case.
Has anyone else ever experienced this? I know the net isn't cursed but some would say otherwise. I'm sure a combination of weather, time of day, presentation, lure selection, etc. is responsible for the lack of luck. But has anyone else gone out and purchased a net and then had crappy luck the next few times you took your boat out. We've had great success bank fishing (no net around). But as soon as we get on the boat with the net, nothing.