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[agelesssone]

To respond directly to TNBronzeback......there seems to be a fella that fished next to me this morning who learned to fish for rockies from your first experience.
Uses 10 lb mono, but throws flukes instead of expensive top water baits, ties into three fish this morning, one spooled his first reel so there is a fish running loose with 150 yds of 10 lb mono hanging on him/her. The next fish runs off like the last one so he cranks down the drag and the fish snaps the line.
The next fish can't be controlled with the light line so it runs amok, picking up two live bait lines thirty yds off to the side of said fisherman. The fish then goes under the barrier, behind my boat where the line goes over my outboard lower unit. End result is me hand lining a 26 lb striper back to my boat, netting it, (couldn't find my gaff) cutting off the fluke and giving it and the fish back to the fisherman, cutting one live line apart and sending the other live line and hook back to the other fishermen.
And this guy fishes with ten lb mono all the time. When he gets a fish on, people have to stop fishing because his fish run all over the place.

[XxthejuicexX]

Merv, how many fights were almost started by that one fish and guy using 10lb line? Last time I was out two guys wanted to fight because one guy got to close with his trolling motor running. Did you keep the fish you landed by hand?

[agelesssone]

. End result is me hand lining a 26 lb striper back to my boat, netting it, (couldn't find my gaff) cutting off the fluke and giving it and the fish back to the fisherman,

Everybody there was reasonably courteous and polite today.

I got scolded when I suggested to one old guy that if he were to announce "fish on", we could clear our lines out of the water when he couldn't control his 8ish lb fish and it ran side to side right at the barrier.

He informed me that this was not the first fish he had ever caught.

I considered myself properly reprimanded!

[XxthejuicexX]

Glad you learned your lesson Merv.

[agelesssone]

I was rightly humbled....

[SAMBOLIE]

Merv, I have seen thousands of fish caught in various ways. I would have paid to see you hand line that fish in. Better than Bill Dance bloopers.

[agelesssone]

Luckily, for me, it was all played out, had no fight left in him.

I just dragged it up to the boat, netted it and cut the line. He must have played that fish for five minutes or more.

I did weigh it as it looked like the twin to the one I had caught minutes earlier. His weighed 26 and small change and mine weighed 25.

After it was all said and done...
Thanks Merv with NashvilleFishingGuideS and your reports
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Thanks Steam Plant
For the fantastic day of fishing!
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