Lost My Clown SSR7!!!!!!

[qbert]

Why in the world did I fish from the bank with 6lb test!!!!

A few days ago, I got a huge tangle in my spool that I couldn't get out, so I respooled it with all I had left, 6lb mono. I've been more successful with small light lures this early in the season, so I have been enjoying the extra casting distance the light line provides. But the dreaded snags have gotten me again!!

First yesterday, I almost lost my only skitter walk, which I only got from the rapalamarket a few weeks ago. I wasn't used to the extra casting distance, and ended up casting it all the way across the lake, into a tree 25ft in the air, and snapping my line.

I made my way over to that side of the lake, and up to the tree. It had no low branches and was too wide around for me to reach around it. So I tried to kind of bear hug the tree and work my way up it. It took every ounce of energy I had to shimmy up about two feet away from the lowest branch of the tree. Of course, I was just short, and eventually came sliding down to the ground!!

It was time for plan b! I looked around, and found a large branch that had been kind of sheared off and split horizontally by the storm a few days prior. That left the branch with a somewhat flat surface I could balance on. So then I took the branch and leaned it up on a 45"ish" degree angle up against the tree and used that to climb up to the bottom branch.

Once I was up there I still had to climb out about 15ft over the lake to get to where I could smack my lure with a thin branch I cut off the tree with this small garden tool I keep in my tackle box. After hitting it 10, 12 times it fell into the water.

After I hurried my ass down the tree, I grabbed my rod which I already hooked up with a skitter pop. I proceeded to cast my popper out at my skitter walk floating in the water, something I've done a million times. For some reason, maybe the way a skitter walk sits in the water, I couldn't hook it to save my life. After about 80 casts I finally just bumped it into where I could reach it with my rod. Needless to say that was the end of my day.


Then today, I went out using my ssr7 clown and caught a small bass on about my third cast. Then about three casts later I snagged it on something under the water where I couldn't see it. Couple of little tugs and then it just snapped. I didn't even have the time to consider taking a frigid walk out to go get it. I've taking some cold journeys out to where I "thought" I had snapped off a lure that I couldn't see and spent 15 minutes searching around underwater before coming up empty handed. I don't do that anymore!

I spent the next couple hours fishing numerous different rapalas with no luck at all. To make a long story longer , I think I need a new ssr7 clown!!

[Fishooked]

I'd say you definitely went above & beyond for that Skitter Walk!!!

[muskiehunter]

Damn Josh thats dedicated lure retrieval

Kinda reminds me of what I have to do when I take my kids fishing

[qbert]

Mar 18, 2010 12:39:02 GMT -4 muskiehunter said:

Damn Josh thats dedicated lure retrieval

Kinda reminds me of what I have to do when I take my kids fishing

I hear you with the kids! That's why I have a one nephew at a time policy on my boat, otherwise I do nothing but free up their snags!!!

[bacon]

i have had to go all redneck on a lure once and use a shotgun to remove it from the top of a tree, just shot off the branch it was on,and untangle it on the ground. it helps that i was fishing a pond on our own private property. not a good idea in a public park.
bacon

[qbert]

Mar 19, 2010 21:00:58 GMT -4 bacon said:

i have had to go all redneck on a lure once and use a shotgun to remove it from the top of a tree, just shot off the branch it was on,and untangle it on the ground. it helps that i was fishing a pond on our own private property. not a good idea in a public park.
bacon

Now that,s what I'm talking about!!!

[Jason]

Mar 19, 2010 21:00:58 GMT -4 bacon said:

i have had to go all redneck on a lure once and use a shotgun to remove it from the top of a tree, just shot off the branch it was on,and untangle it on the ground. it helps that i was fishing a pond on our own private property. not a good idea in a public park.
bacon

LOL ...Yup ... We call it topp'n . Ive had to do it for multiple reasons . But a good lure is on the top of that list .

Call me what you want

[lipripper]

that's how we used to get apples out of the tops of trees when i was a kid ..the best apples were up high ..but we used bb guns ... [ it was easier than climbing and shaking the trees ] and it improved our markesmanship jason you sound like an uncle of mine ...he was sighting his scope in on his rifle one day ..[ under the influence ] he had his target on the side of an old building in his back yard ..he shot at least 30 or 40 times ..the next day he went to feed his rabbits ..and they were all dead ..he forgot about them being in the building ..with a little help from 15 tall boy bud's ..he's a real idiot , but real entertaining to be around ..

[bluefishbuster]

I've gotta hand it to yah qbert for having so much patients in trying to get your Skitter Walk back. All the courage you had too.

I'm the same way with my Rapalas. If I get one stuck or snagged, I'll keep on working my hardest to get it back. That even led to an injury last year in March. I was casting a SSR-7 SH and got it snagged on a branch. I took a long branch and was reaching with it way out there to get the lure off while hanging onto another tree hard with my left hand. Right as the SSR got off I went in. Right as I started trying to get out of the water I couldn't move my right arm. Found out at the hospital that I had inflamed my right shoulder tendon which resulted in shoulder tendinitis. Had to go to physical therapy for about 2 months.

[jagermeistered]

Mar 20, 2010 22:44:44 GMT -4 @lipripper said:

that's how we used to get apples out of the tops of trees when i was a kid ..the best apples were up high ..but we used bb guns ... [ it was easier than climbing and shaking the trees ] and it improved our markesmanship jason you sound like an uncle of mine ...he was sighting his scope in on his rifle one day ..[ under the influence ] he had his target on the side of an old building in his back yard ..he shot at least 30 or 40 times ..the next day he went to feed his rabbits ..and they were all dead ..he forgot about them being in the building ..with a little help from 15 tall boy bud's ..he's a real idiot , but real entertaining to be around ..

That is a funny story.

[Tom]

when i lost my ssr-9sb, i cast up the tree with 50lb braid and a treble and managed to snap the branch off the tree it was caught on, and spent 2 days casting around the area with 50lb and another treble, trying to hook up on the branch it was attached to, after bringing in a branch that looked identical to the one my lure got caught on, only to find the lure wasn't there, i spent another 2 evenings looking round the lake to see if it was floating round anywhere. That, my friends, is lure retrieval !