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Let's hear some crazy or funny fishing stories

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My Dad left one afternoon to go fishing when I was 17 or so. Solo. Next morning I hear a knock on the door, open it and its my neighbor. Says he went out before daybreak and my Dad had a giant fish hooked, and had been fighting it for hours and wanted me to go with him, bring the big net and he'd take me out to my Dad.

Can't find big net, but I grab a gaff and off we go.

Sure enough .... Dad is in the boat, rod bent double, he's just hanging on. Story was he hooked the fish hours earlier near the twin bridges. It pulled him and the boat literally from bridge to bridge for hours. He hands me the rod and says reel it in or break it off, he don't care.

45 minutes later, the fish come up. Its a striper - belly hooked ..... maybe 70 pounds? 80 pounds ? I've never sen a fish that big.

Dad gaff's it in the gill, starts pulling it up and over, gaff comes unhooked, breaks line .... fish swims away


State record I'd have bet any money on. Mongo
 
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