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ChezJfrey
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I'm learning more all the time here and out on the water. Caught a few fish this morning, but lost a couple too.
The ones I lost, were big enough to spool out considerable line. While I had them on for awhile, these two fish went threading through some heavy weeds and an accumulation of weeds and muck threaded onto my line to a point that my swivel used to serve as a stop for my weight embedded and stuck. At that point, the fish was able to break the leader.
In order to retrieve my line, I had to pull hard, reel a few inches, and repeat this process many times. Eventually, a very large 'island' of weeds and muck floated very slowly toward my as I pulled/reeled. Funny thing about this is that two large carp, in both instances, was closely following my island...but that's another story.
It took quite a bit of detangling and dislodging to get my line free of this mess.
Which leads to my question...is there anything you can do while playing a fish to minimize the chance of this happening? On the second fish, I actually tried to hold my rod really high much of the time thinking that it might reduce the amount of weeds that get caught. Obviously, this did nothing to prevent the problem.
Is this just an inevitable risk, or is there any way around this sort of problem in a weed-dense water?
The ones I lost, were big enough to spool out considerable line. While I had them on for awhile, these two fish went threading through some heavy weeds and an accumulation of weeds and muck threaded onto my line to a point that my swivel used to serve as a stop for my weight embedded and stuck. At that point, the fish was able to break the leader.
In order to retrieve my line, I had to pull hard, reel a few inches, and repeat this process many times. Eventually, a very large 'island' of weeds and muck floated very slowly toward my as I pulled/reeled. Funny thing about this is that two large carp, in both instances, was closely following my island...but that's another story.
It took quite a bit of detangling and dislodging to get my line free of this mess.
Which leads to my question...is there anything you can do while playing a fish to minimize the chance of this happening? On the second fish, I actually tried to hold my rod really high much of the time thinking that it might reduce the amount of weeds that get caught. Obviously, this did nothing to prevent the problem.
Is this just an inevitable risk, or is there any way around this sort of problem in a weed-dense water?