Ever had someone contribute to losing a MONSTER fish?

Question

a buddy of mine and I were out on the lake sunday having a few beers and just relaxing cause the bite was pretty slow.

then I notice a little nibble on my pole and end up setting the hook and as soon as i do the fish starts taking drag......I fought with this fish for easily 30 minutes with it going air born and coming out of the water at least 4 times.....finally after this fish had made multiple runs he loses a little gas and comes up to the surface on his side and it is the biggest rainbow trout I have ever had on my line.....my buddy goes to net the fish and he misses and ends up knocking the hook right out of his mouth and the tired MONSTER trout swam away.

I know he didnt do it on purpose but that happened 3 days ago and I still cant get over it......a fish that size comes along once in a lifetime.

Just wondering if anyone out there has similar stories of losing the big one when u did everything right.

Answer 1

anyone who ever spends time out fishing has similar stories my friend ! but we all seem to leave out the fact that we saw the net coming and relaxed (just a little tho !) just as the net swung to go under the fish. And then that bumbeling fool Knocked the biggest fish ever fought right off the line .

Answer 2

It was a late night approximently 1:00am. The lines were lagged and the poles securely fastened to the docks boat bumpers.

We were using hand size Bream for bait. hooked through the eyes with a 3/0 Hook. 20 LB Test Trilene Lin30 minute have gone then suddenly my middle rod and reel pole bend slam over and the drag started to pour out.
I picked up the combo series and started to tighten the drag a little bit more and battle this fish to bring him in.

We all assumed it was a big Catfish, but to our surprise it ended up being a LargeMouth Bass weghing at least 20 lbs.

When the fish jumped water the first time I still had him hoooked.
The fight goes in to 15 monutes and already I'm on my third cigarette. I got this Bass as close as I could near the dock ramp where the boats launched to try and drown this Bass in the shallow and slow him down and the unthinkable that I'd never seen in my life happened.
A huge Catfish hit my first pole off the dock and my partner grabbed that pole./
He's battling the Cat and I'm battling this Bass.

In the process the lines get crossed and now we are in serious trouble bacause the Bass and Cat have circled the lines.

My first response to this delima was to cut the line. to the Cat.So I told my partner and he grabbed a knife and I told him to cut his line and let that Cat go and I have to land my Bass and this bass is a record and will gain more power on the paper than that Cat.

It was dark and the next thing I holler to Mike is "God damn it Mike don't cut my line just your line.
Everybody's hollering and excitement semnd us all into a frenzy.
He ends up cutting my line in the twist and I lost the biggest Largemouth I have hooked in my History.

It is a night when things went right and everything went wrong.

How easy was it to trace my line and cut his line not mine. A stupid mistake and my fish swam away and jumped out of the water about 30 ft out still thinking he's hoooks, but trying to shake that hook out. He was already free;.

A sad morning and fish story that will live till the day I die.

This happened at Lake Harding Dock called Idle Hour Point in Harris County, Georgia, the year 1994.

The Doc in Harris Countty today remains one of the biggest and toughest docks to land Catfish that weigh 60 80 lbs.

Now for a Largemouth to hap in and swim to my bait was like one in a million odds.

Answer 3

I was hooked up with a 50 pound class yellowfin tuna, and this old guy (He was 65-70, I was about 30, he was a guy who described himself as having "forgotton more about fishing than you'll ever know") was hooked up with another. With the fish both straight down and circling, the lines got crossed. A deckhand took the old guy's rod and started unwrapping the lines (standard procedure on San Diego tuna boats), and after each pass, as the deckhand was trying to see if the lines were clear, the old guy tried to grab his rod back. About the fourth time, the old guy was so aggressive grabbing at his rod that he knocked me over. I hit the deck, my line snapped, and that was that. The deckhand apologized. The old guy never did. His fish weighed 58 pounds.

(50 pounds isn't a monster size for a yellowfin tuna, but it was the biggest I hooked on that trip by about 20 pounds, and his was the biggest on the boat.)

Answer 4

If you spend enough time out on the water you will have times that you lose the fish and you will have times that you are the one helping the other guy lose the fish. You just have to shrug it off as no big deal and try to catch another monster trout..

Answer 5

actually i cost my partner a rather large fish in a tournament once.(bass)i went to net the fish and caught him on the side of the head and pulled the hook right out of the fish mouth.
man,i felt horrible for having done this.

Answer 6

Simular has happened to me,only good that may have come out of UR experence is that the one U lost may have been a breather.

Answer 7

Yes, it happened and now he swims with the fishes.

Answer 8

Have you ever noticed that the ones that get away are always bigger than any that you have ever landed. Been there, done that.