The spin ....

one old rod I really like has been hammering for around 10 years .
its a 1 pc. 7 footer and light as feather and fast as can be .
lots of backbone and one of my favorite spring flingers .
I have replaced the rod tip so many times I lost count .
not because of breakage , but because of the darn ceramics coming out .
so I went with bronze the last time and it is hanging in there .
this week it gave up and starting spinning around on the tip .
not sure what I glued it with the last time ,but it gave up too.
told myself to park her and fix it later .
grabbed her yesterday for some long casting and forgot about the tip .
first cast KABOOM big male crappie and it was on just like that .
next big fish I lost , then yet another and something just didn't seem right .
It took me a bit to remember the spinning rod tip .
kept using it instead of going back to the truck and getting another one .........
second BIG mistake ....hooked a super fish and she came to the top ...
lost my breath when I saw her and went oh my golly its a for sure monster crappie .
rod tip spun a bit again ,causing a moment of slack and just like that she was gone :banghead
less than ready gear will cause you to lose a big crappie , just saying
and silly me knows better , darn the bad luck ....
sure wanted to hold her ,looked like a garbage can lid when she rolled up on top .
won't forget that one for a while for sure :banghead

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no doubt my friend , ding dong for sure , I so wanted to ketch that fish , you just don't know .

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and in the world of the ever elusive crappie fish it is without any doubt going to cause you to ketch less than a desirable amount of them .:banghead

For me it is usually the knot I failed to retie aftera bought with a good sized slimer. Or the jighead that has been pull out from dock structre so many times it could be used at a metallurgical conference on metal fatigue.

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For me it is usually the knot I failed to retie aftera bought with a good sized slimer. Or the jighead that has been pull out from dock structre so many times it could be used at a metallurgical conference on metal fatigue.

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a nick or 2 in the line can spell disaster for sure , but a fail when reeling in any way is pretty often the end of the capture .
the slightest of slack in your line with a crappie on is quite often a recipe for see ya later ....

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There is no doubt that this is a truism. It rarely fails to happen, and that is a bitter lesson!
Bob

It's not the ones you catch but the fish you lose that you remember. Lost a giant crappie a few years ago when the ant-reverse went out on the hook set and I didn't have my hand on the handle giving the fish plenty of time and slack to run under a log and break free. Lost two more last year that the hook pulled free that I got a good look at that were massive fish. Hope they are both still in the lake.

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It's not the ones you catch but the fish you lose that you remember. Lost a giant crappie a few years ago when the ant-reverse went out on the hook set and I didn't have my hand on the handle giving the fish plenty of time and slack to run under a log and break free. Lost two more last year that the hook pulled free that I got a good look at that were massive fish. Hope they are both still in the lake.

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That glimpse of that fish can haunt your dreams for a long time.

Though it wasn't a crappie there is a fish that haunts me to this day. I hooked it on an underwater road bed beside Kentucky State Penitentiary. Largest small mouth I've ever had on the end of a line. I had it to the side of the boat, reach for the net.... I let the line get slack for a split second. I think that fish was laughing as it spit the lure. I wish it had been an equipment failure so I could blame something besides me. The funny thing is I remember the whole fight and the end of the fight and it was 25 years ago. Sorry to get so far off topic.

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We all have our one that got away moments. Certainly makes up better and more determined fisherman. At least some of us.

I had nightmares on one fish a few years ago , we got eye to eye long enough to make me return to that spot for a week straight trying to get that monster to go one more round with me .

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back at work that is exactly what got done , until it spins again is the word :Rofl

Super glue s some strong stuff. It usually hangs in there

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lots of emergency rooms use it these days , seems it is better than stitches in some cases ,ketchn wonders about "the burn" , similar to monkey blood or ........

Aww when that happens to me I always rationalize with a "was simply a quick release to keep from taking slime off that monster fish". when actually would have taken a quick pic and THEN released it. But it's stuck in my mind forever more.

Worse is when your delbert buddy hooks a monster but says "oh it's only a dang drum" and does everything he can to get it off his line, letting slack in and hitting side of boat with rod, while I am insisting it could be a crappie and having the net in back of boat on my knees and it surfaces for a split second and WAS the Crappie of a lifetime for this delbert! course it spits hook at said moment but both of us saw it. STILL give him grief about that many years later.

Sorry she got away.
I too have had a few failures.


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Sorry she got away.
I too have had a few failures.


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the good news is she wasnt right up in the see her freckles on her sides close to me , that would have really been traumatic for sure ....:Rofl