The Ones That Got Away.
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:07 pm
The Ones That Got Away.
Some fish jump completely out of the water.... head shaking.... gill rattling......
spraying water into the afternoon sun that leaves a little rainbow floating above the
splash. Wow. It's even more memorable when the fish shakes it's head and the lure comes flying out of its mouth and smacks into the side of the boat. Things get very quiet.
That's a pretty good description of Mark's very first peacock bass. To make it more memorable.... the fish could easily top the 5 to 6 pound mark.
I had told Mark about how peacock bass will chase a lure all the way to the boat and as long as the lure is in the water... you could get a strike. We had called it a day, but near Boy Scout Island, the fish were schooling and chasing shad. So we stopped and hooked a few small ones. Mark was reeling in the spinner bait when we saw a wake heading for the boat... and his lure. With less than 6 inches of line out of the rod tip... the fish engulfed the lure and headed under the boat. The sound of the line breaking was like a rifle shot. I'll remember that one... it not only got away, it took my new spinnerbait with it.
Fortunately the white spinner bait he was using fooled several peacock bass... so we were able to take a few pictures he could show his friends.
Some fish jump completely out of the water.... head shaking.... gill rattling......
spraying water into the afternoon sun that leaves a little rainbow floating above the
splash. Wow. It's even more memorable when the fish shakes it's head and the lure comes flying out of its mouth and smacks into the side of the boat. Things get very quiet.
That's a pretty good description of Mark's very first peacock bass. To make it more memorable.... the fish could easily top the 5 to 6 pound mark.
I had told Mark about how peacock bass will chase a lure all the way to the boat and as long as the lure is in the water... you could get a strike. We had called it a day, but near Boy Scout Island, the fish were schooling and chasing shad. So we stopped and hooked a few small ones. Mark was reeling in the spinner bait when we saw a wake heading for the boat... and his lure. With less than 6 inches of line out of the rod tip... the fish engulfed the lure and headed under the boat. The sound of the line breaking was like a rifle shot. I'll remember that one... it not only got away, it took my new spinnerbait with it.
Fortunately the white spinner bait he was using fooled several peacock bass... so we were able to take a few pictures he could show his friends.
Sounds like it woulda snapped 10# test line also! 
