That was stupid

[cassidyta]

Now, I have been known to do some dumb, foolish, and even funny things while fishing. I don't think that my mistakes are often in the stupid category. (My wife would debate that).
Today's incident can only be described as stupid.

I went down to my lunch time fishing pond for an hour. I was tossing paca-craws on a 3/8 shakey head with some very good results. I landed three in the first 20 minutes, the biggest right around 3lbs.
I was also tossing the floating BBZ around the edges of the tullies hoping it would get ambushed. I noticed that my Johhny Morris reel was making a little more noise than normal. It appeared to be casting fine, but just didn't sound right. The last time I had a similar sound, the magnetic brakes were not seated properly in the dial, so I figured I should check that.
Now a smarter man would have reeled is line in and begun the inspection. Nope, not me. Following the weird sounding cast, I turned my reel on it's side and took off the side plate to check the brakes.

I am sure most of you can guess what happened next.

Yep, my dead stick BBZ caught the attention of hungry bass. While the fish was no giant by any means, it did a number on my half of a reel. My line, lure and fish went straight into the tullies without me being able to do a think about it.
Tonight I will be adding line to my now empty spool and tomorrow back at it again.

Moral of the story, reel disassembly with a line in the water is a bad idea.



Here is the better fish of the day.

[aikenyounggun]

man that hurts.... i guess that bbz is gone forever ... and all the money you spent on it.... well i guess the upside is that you wont ever do that again.....

[bcklash]

Today's incident can only be described as stupid -- I agree but funny

[MrPhotographer06]

haha... i take it you have a side plate that you can just 1/3 turn and make it come off?

if so then why didnt you throw the spool back into the reel? or atleast hold the spool and then back up the bank

[MallenManson]

Stoopid stories are funny.....

[zooker]

all you need to see is the middle line...

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not suprised at all...


zooker

[carolina-rig-01]

cass that is freaking funny, i mean i am really sorry about your luck and all but i would have loved to have seen that.

lmao zooker

[MrPhotographer06]

haha sounds like my dad.. he did the same thing.. it was a lure that almost always caught a fish..

and he backlashed... so he started unwinding it.. well he had to cut it, so he tied it to the paddle[jon boat].. well it ended up hitting a fish and he had to reel it up on the paddle

[keithdog]

Cass, thats unfortunate for sure, but dang if it don't sound like something I might do. Now I won't. Thanks for sharing the lesson learned, LOL.

[Bassboss]

Wow man, that sucks! I caught this years PB on a back lash cast!

btw, nice bass!