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Originally Posted by loochy
How'd you manage that? Were you unhooking a catch?
I can't believe that I haven't done that before while lipping a largemouth. I'm always kind of scared of it because they will start flopping right when you least expect it.
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Well. It was windy as hell here. I was in the open with an underpowered trolling motor. I was running the boat, and i hooked a 4 lb northern. My asshole brother netted the damn thing then dropped the net on the floor in the front. When i got the boat back to where it needed to be, i turned to the pike. He had rolled himself into a neat little ball with my #13 Original floating rapala in his mouth and the net. It took me forever to get that ****er outta there, and when i finally was close, he'd roll again. Well I had him at least unstuck from the net, and i was gonna pull him out to undo the hooks he had BURIED in past his gills, and the ****er rolled. BAM. Buried one straight into my knuckle all the way up to the curve of the treble.
Took a little while to get the balls to push it through, but by then it was pretty numb. I pushed it through and was able to clip it into pieces and finally pull it through.
Won't be doing that again.