The day from hell on ERIE

[Helmut]

What a bust of a day. Launched out of Bruce at 9pm. Straight out to 50 feet and marking some good hooks at 35 ft.
Only went out with 2 lead core rods and perch rods in case the bite was bad.
Planer boards out and rods loaded by 930.
Had 3 hard knock offs on starboard side in a row. 5 colors out with gold rippling redfin
Port side had silver and black redfin.
While tending to the starboard for the 3 time wife says whats with other rod. Turned to look and all was well. Suddenly she screams the rod is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Yup it's gone 300 bucks floats away. How in the world did that get yanked out of the rocket launcher
So we trolled with one rod. Switched to greasy chicken and something hammers it hard but gets away.
The shad flies were so bad the boat looked like a crime scene with all the squashed bugs our cloths were just covered with bug slime too.
Oh well on the bright side the boat didn't sink

 

[Bassassin]

I don't want to push the like button because there's not much to like with what happened. I feel for you, sounds like one of my early outings this year. 2 trips $2500.00 in damage.

 

[Ramrod]

I almost had the same thing happen last week. I heard a splash and luckily put 2 and 2 together quickly and was able to grab it by the tip on the way down. WTP what happened that was 2500 worth of damage ?

 

[Helmut]

Haha just one of those days that goes sideways. Begining to think the millions of flies carried it away
Thats a lot of damage you had WTP

 

[Duck Soup]

Helmut, hard to figure out how that happens. In my case I was lucky enough to have a tight clip on the planer board and was able to recover the rod.