The one that got away......

[hawgTime]

Lets hear some hard-water stories about the one that got away last year---or years past.

hawgTime

[eyeballs]

I once lost a 1/4lb perch right at the hole! Don't know how it happened. Must have had the drag set to tight!

[eyeballs]

Hey hawgtime, When are we going to go fishing? I got W or Th off next week, and Sunday for sure. Walleye, bass, northern, crappie, sunnies, muskie, or catfish, I have a spot for all of them. Give me a call or E-mail me.

[hawgTime]

oops.

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[hawgTime]

Ya! I think I was with you the day you lost that hawg. What a shame. I think that was the same day you caught that 4" pike. Anyway. Do you still have the same email and phone#. email me and give me an update. I've moved to Eagan, have a different ph#, but same email. [email protected]

thinkCold

[Guest]

I lost a pretty decent walleye at the hole last year. I was jigging for crappies when all of a sudden a giant red line came off the bottom on the vexilar. It was mid day so I was figured it would a pike. I fought it for a good five minutes before I could get a good look at it. It didn't fight like a walleye. I got the fish about a foot under the ice and it shook its head, spit the hook out and just sat there for a second. I swear it was laughing at me. Later that day I talked to a local fisherman that said he pulled up a 7lb walleye from right near that same spot and let it go. Was it that big, probably not.
Good Fishin, Matt.

[Guest]

I used to have a shack on Lake Augusta near Annandale. It was near shore and the channel between Augusta and Clearwater. Norderns ran every morning and evening. I kept two tipups in the shack rigged with a plain hook and a shiner, braided line, no leader. They bit so often I had perfected the hook setting timing and lip hooked every fish. One morning the first tipup flag went up and I set the hook. A second later the other tipup tripped and I figured the fish had tangled the second line. The first line went limp so I thought I had lost him. I noticed the spool on the second tipup slowly turning. I grabbed it and set the hook. It felt weird. Instead of a classic northern pike fight this felt like I was dragging a log through the water sideways. I was. I couldn't believe it when I got it up to the hole. The first fish had indeed run into the other line. The line had wrapped around his girth like a lasso. He was not putting up a fight. He just sat there below the hole. I couldn't pull him through the hole this way. I grabbed the gaff and pushed his tail down to somewhat stand him up on end and work his head into the hole, then gaffed him into the shack.
This was a 3-4 lb fish. Later when I cleaned him I discoverd why he was not fighting. He had a hook in his stomach that looked like it had been there for years. The lasso must have been putting pressure on it. Bizarre.