01-03-2007, 12:22 AM
there ya go, first post deleted, and title edited so it dosnt say reply to guest.
I was ice fishing next to a tip up some 25 years ago, about 100 feet away,
I got a whale of a hit and about spooled my reel of its 4 lb test line.
I knew I had me a bigun... and tried as I might I could not get him to budge. he just sat there, and sat there and sat there for about 45 minutes. I was beginning to think he slipped it off in to the weeds, but it didnt feel like weeds.
about when I went to pull my line harder to see if I could get it to budge or break it ran again, that was when the tipup flag went up. and my line went limp.
so I started reeling like a mad man trying to pick up the slack before he got to the other side of my hole in to the weed bed for sure. I cought up with him and as soon as I felt preasure i started reeling in slow trying to tickle him in to my hole.
I got him to the edge of my hole and I could see his ugly face when all of a sudden there rose such a clatter... ok a big jerk, it was about that time when the man at the tip up decided he was going to pull his pike in, or should I say my pike in, I had him on the line first, LOL,
I went over to where the guy was pulling in his fish, and I told him I had him first and I wanted my lure back when he got the 32 inch pike in. Every one standing around, (there was about 20 guys) all looked at me like I was stupid.... I told him what my pimple looked like, 5 minutes later when he finaly got his pike in it had my lure sill in its mouth and a good half dozen others. three of them belonged to three other guys standing there....
one guy whipped out his tape measure and sure enough it was 32 and a quarter inches long, about 12 pounds.
I doubt I would have ever gotten him up through the little six inch hole I was fishing out of. But every one busted a gut when my lure that I had discriped to a "T" was hanging out the corner of his mouth.... and Yep I got my lure back.....
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I was ice fishing next to a tip up some 25 years ago, about 100 feet away,
I got a whale of a hit and about spooled my reel of its 4 lb test line.
I knew I had me a bigun... and tried as I might I could not get him to budge. he just sat there, and sat there and sat there for about 45 minutes. I was beginning to think he slipped it off in to the weeds, but it didnt feel like weeds.
about when I went to pull my line harder to see if I could get it to budge or break it ran again, that was when the tipup flag went up. and my line went limp.
so I started reeling like a mad man trying to pick up the slack before he got to the other side of my hole in to the weed bed for sure. I cought up with him and as soon as I felt preasure i started reeling in slow trying to tickle him in to my hole.
I got him to the edge of my hole and I could see his ugly face when all of a sudden there rose such a clatter... ok a big jerk, it was about that time when the man at the tip up decided he was going to pull his pike in, or should I say my pike in, I had him on the line first, LOL,
I went over to where the guy was pulling in his fish, and I told him I had him first and I wanted my lure back when he got the 32 inch pike in. Every one standing around, (there was about 20 guys) all looked at me like I was stupid.... I told him what my pimple looked like, 5 minutes later when he finaly got his pike in it had my lure sill in its mouth and a good half dozen others. three of them belonged to three other guys standing there....
one guy whipped out his tape measure and sure enough it was 32 and a quarter inches long, about 12 pounds.
I doubt I would have ever gotten him up through the little six inch hole I was fishing out of. But every one busted a gut when my lure that I had discriped to a "T" was hanging out the corner of his mouth.... and Yep I got my lure back.....
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