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Baitball Blogger

(46,702 posts) Thu Mar 28, 2019, 07:11 PM Mar 2019

Did you know that running fast is a big part of fishing?

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Did you know that running fast is a big part of fishing? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2019 OP

Where I come from we only have to worry about Northern Pike TheRealNorth Mar 2019 #1

I can believe that ProudLib72 Mar 2019 #4

Especially if youre the bait. Chin music Mar 2019 #2

Yes. I've fished around alligators before. Sometimes you hafta run. Solly Mack Mar 2019 #3

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TheRealNorth

(9,478 posts)

1. Where I come from we only have to worry about Northern Pike

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2019, 07:26 PM

Mar 2019

I have seen it happen a few times fishing where a Northern Pike will strike at a bluegill or perch that I'm reeling in. My Dad actually landed a Pike this way.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

4. I can believe that

Reply to TheRealNorth (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 29, 2019, 12:07 AM

Mar 2019

One time I was fishing for striped bass in Long Island sound. I was standing on top of a breachway that was maybe 12' above the surface, so I had a clear view of what was happening in the water. I hooked a striper and was hauling him in when a big, dark shadow began approaching. I knew that shadow was a bluefish after my striper, so I just stopped playing my catch and wrenched him out of the water. Crisis averted and the striper got to live another day (or maybe just a few minutes if that bluefish was still hanging around).