Last weekend I was trout fishing off my buddy' s pier, which is only about 25 ft from shore. I took my niece to do a little bottom fishing. After she had caught a nice rainbow, I put on new bait for her and cast it back out. I then reeled my line in just to check it. Just at the point where I could see my line and bait coming in, this hugh brown came from the deep, dark waters and headed right for my bait. A second later he hit it hard and the fight was on. I was playing him only 10 ft from the pier, 2 ft from the surface. Everything was going well, the drag was set perfectly and I had new line on my reel. After about 30sec, my line went limp and I lost this fish. I thought he broke my line but further inspection revealed the hook at the end of my leader was missing and the line at the end was curly, meaning that the hook was pulled from the line and that the line did not break. I may be wrong. I have lost my share of big trout over the years but this would have been my biggest ever. My buddy has a beautiful brown mounted in his camp that weighed 7 pounds (caught off the same dock) and this was a lot bigger, both in length and girth. I would guestimate in the 10 pound range, maybe more....Anyway, I guess this is my way of venting and wondered if my assumption is correct. Does this sound like the hook was pulled off the line? This has never happened to me before....Thanks!
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im gonna have to agree here.....had to been a bad knot!!
i had a spinner and got it snaged on a log and was able to get it off and later i found that the treble hook was now a double hook....grr....thats a case of a bad hook!!!
Now....I hate Eagle Claw Hooks....I think.
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