Cool thread.

This Spring, I was working very hard to get a big fish. The weather was cold and I wasn't exactly killing them. I was working all weekend for 1-2 bites, and had no big fish bites whatsoever. In the afternoon on a Sunday, an hour or two before I planned to take off, I throw out and across a big long point with submerged wood. First, I hang up my ROF 12 on a tree, oops number 1. Second, I pick up a ROF 5 and ss my Hudd is in flight, I can see the tail foul on the belly traps...So as soon as my bait hits the water, I rip--rip---rip the bait to unfoul the tail from the trap hooks----boom--fish comes out of the water to inhale the bait. Vicious strike, 10-2 pound fish.

I feel like I didn't deserve the fish because I fouled an ROF 12 the cast before and my cast with the ROF 5 was a fouled cast. Two strikes and still got the fish.