My fishing ""adventure"

ClassD White · #1 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 04:46 AM

Heres how my fishing "adventure" went last night. Headed out last night to catch the incoming. I fished for a few hours and had a bunch of bites but no fish landed. I moved out to the ocean front to try a little different approach. As im sitting in my chair i hear a noise right next to me. A fox, 2 feet to the right of me, was ripping apart my bag trying to get at the pogy i had thawing out. It scared the crap out me and instinctively i turned and ran maybe 50 ft. Its pretty dark but i see the little bugger run away with my bag and fish. . So after being pretty freaked out at this point and hoping to not get rabies, i went back toward where i was fishing, there was a little more light and atleast one other person fishing so atleast i felt a little safer. I tossed out some clams i had and kept fishing, all the while peeking over my shoulder looking for that stupid fox. I got a fish, yay!!!!! i reel in the smallest striper ever landed on rod and reel. Im going to round UP and say the fish was 14". Crapolla!!! So its now past midnight and very annoyed i packed up my stuff and was heading home. On the way i passed by this little bend in the river where i can see lots of swirls and fishing flying around everywhere. Awesome i thought. I proceeded to throw everything i had without so much as a bump. As i just finished reeling in the lure i was throwing, a fish, not sure what kind maybe 7-8", beaches itself right in front of me! hehe. I proceed to throw a hook in him and toss him out there. The current was pretty fast so i had to throw him back out a couple times but maybe the 6th cast it was on! my line went out SCREAMING! Id gain some line on him and it would run out again, almost taking all my line. This happened a bunch of times and the battle lasted maybe 20+ minutes. Seeing how it was pulling and the the swirls i saw, i knew i had a beast. It seemed to tire out and it started to come toward the beach. 15 ft away, 10 ft, 5 ft "OMG i have the world record striper!!!" I thought. The adrenaline was pumping. At about 5 feet away from my feet it decideds to stick its head out of the water and look at me! Thats right, i hooked onto a darn seal!!!!!! After i realised what it was i cut my line and stood their just stupified!! I went through a whole bunch of emotions, laughter, annoyance, anger.... so, i packed up my stuff and headed out. I was ticked the whole car ride home b/c all i wanted was one keeper bass. Darn. So that concludes my last fishing trip of the year. After how this trip went, im sure the only left for me to do now was to somehow hook myself, so i figured it'd just be safer for me to call it quits for this season. lol. Maybe i should just stick to freshwater.

TammyJamaica · #2 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 10:23 PM

I love to go fishing too but have not in a long time. We used to go out in canoes from the Jamaican South Coast at night and it was unreal.

What happened to the poor little seal you seem so angry with? Come on, you had a great, exciting time anyway, right?

kjhowland · #3 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 10:57 PM

Hmmm lived all my Life in Mass and have never seen a seal before. The fox doesn't sound rabid. Actually sounded quite normal. What river were you fishing?

ClassD White · #4 (**permalink**) 09-27-2008, 03:36 AM

now that i look back at the trip it was kinda funny but it wasnt at the time.

I was angry at the seal b/c i fought it for 1/2 an hour thinking it was a huge striper! it obviously wasnt. I felt bad for the little guy but i wasnt about to pin it down by myself and get the hook out.

And i was fishing plum island, near the mouth of the merrimack.

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