Got a nice brat tonight after more than 2 weeks of lost fish.
Starting after the 4th when we had that little "Summer miracle" I moved every last scheduling conflict around I could swing. Every day I was out I lost 3-6 fish. Broken hooks, broken leaders, broken rods, hot fish (can't fix that), fish jumping in the bushes, had a guy walk up and not see a guy with a fish on (me) and cast over my line and end up costing me that fish.
I got low-holed by the same guy 3 times. One afternoon I had worked a fish off a riffle and was stepping it down to an obstruction (4 tail slaps in 25 casts) and he walked up and cast right over my swing and hooked up. He proceeded to jump on the drift I was stepping through and start tossing giant bobbers or huge pink spinners and spoons on other occasions.
I had a big fish on and with heavy gear and I had a hard time controlling the fish. A drift boat above me chased another big fish through the rapid and while they did a great job, they were using very light gear and our fish found each other and saved their own lives (a fish I would lose all over again, a circus that ended with a great laugh and handshakes all around).
I had a bad spool of maxima 15lb UG that lost 5 fish and $50 in hardware before I figured out what was up.
Literally everything went wrong all at once...
The moral of the story is that you ALWAYS remember a bad run. I was somewhere in the middle of a 70 for 80 run for this season and lost 15 fish straight.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS RUN OF LOST FISH!
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