AND NO THIS ISNT A PORN MOVIE!...... :biggrin:.......SO ONE FINE SUNNY COLD SATURDAY I HEAD UP TO NORTHERN NH AND MEET MY NEPHEW AND HIS DAUGHTER FOR SOME ICE FISHING ON THIS LAKE THAT WE HAD INVESTIGATED THAT SUPPOSEDLY HAD SOME HUGE ILLEGALLY INTRODUCED NORTHERN PIKE IN IT......WELL WE HIT THE LAKE...HARDLY ANYBODY ON IT...WE GET SET UP AND START FISHING......START NAILING SOME REALLY NICE SMALLMOUTH BASS AND SOME BIG YELLOW PERCH.....ALL OF A SUDDEN MY NEPHEW NAILS A HUGE WHITE PERCH!......WE ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME..THE KID IS SPRINTING FOR THE FLAGS ON THE TIP UPS....ME AND MY NEPHEW ARE SITTING IN OUR SEATS JIGGING....I FEEL SOMETHING ON MY POLE..SET THE HOOK AND IT FEELS LIKE A DEAD WEIGHT....I THINK IM SNAGGED...THEN IT STARTS SWIMMING OFF!.......THEN MY LINE GOES LIMP AND NOTHING...FELT HEAVY...I TELL MY NEPHEW...SO IM SITTING THERE AND THE KID COMES OVER TO BOND WITH ME THEN GOES OVER TO VISIT HER DAD LEAVING HER POLE AT HER JIGGING HOLE WITH THE HOOK IN THE WATER....SO IM WATCHING IT THINKING WOULDNT IT BE FUNNY IF SOMETHING GRABBED THE HOOK AND HAULED HER POLE IN.......WELL AFTER ABOUT 10 MINUTES I SAID HELL ILL GO CHECK HER POLE AND STRETCH A BIT......I STAND UP AND STRETCH AND WALK TO HER POLE WHICH IS ABOUT 20 FEET AWAY......MY NEPHEW SCREAMS OUT MY NAME...I SPIN AROUND AND HE POINTS TO WHERE I WAS SITTING AND I TURN AND LOOK JUST IN TIME TO SEE MY JIGGING POLE FLY OFF MY SEAT AND WHIP STRAIGHT DOWN MY JIGGING HOLE !!!.....I RUN OVER AND SURE ENOUGH THE d**n POLE IS GONE ....COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.......WE WERE SHOCKED AND LAUGHING OUR ASSES OFF AT THE SAME TIME....THATS A TRUE STORY!!!
I've had that happen before too. :roflmao:
I've been bottom fishing too with my pole propped upright on a crotch branch we stick in the bank, and watch it launch in the air like a bottle rocket up off that stick. Never to be seen again :nono:
Now I use a piece of parachute cord with clips on both ends and I clip the pole to my cooler....if anything hauls that down a hole Im getting the hell off the ice :shck:
I thought you were gonna say you took your mittens off their sleeve clips and clipped the cord to them :roflmao:
But.........if i did that i might lose a mitten !