After having this disappointing evening with soooooo much fish around and the colossal score of 0 (zero/null/empty), I went back for the seconds… This time I started in front of the former factory in VRSA, just next to the ship yard… There are always loads of mullet swimming around the few boats anchored there... I walked about casting my trusty Xrap XR08 GGH without any result… At one point I noticed there was a fish about 50cm swimming lethargically on the surface, thick black back, very similar to a big mullet. However, every time it would approach small mullet, small fish would start fleeing away, and jumping out of the water. Cut there was no energy, no usual speed, it was all like slow motion camera – I am now sorry I did not make a video of it. I cast the lure in front of it and before I closed the bail, it was on the hook. I did not even feel the strike, it was just on. Still, I was pulling it up quite uneventfully, like a cod, quite lethargic dead weight, until it woke up and started swimming away – the drill on my Twinpower started giving line and then there was this damned pop sound and it all stopped…
It took me a second to realize it did not throw the hook, the braid line broke, the fish was gone as was my favourite lure…
When I examined the line, I was so pissed to discover the main line, so not the leader, the freaking braid, had been frayed and severely damaged, presumably while it was in the car… who knows! All I know is I still think it was a small corvina… It was to slow and lethargic for a bass, and once it did start swimming, it was too strong for its size… this is definitively NOT my month!!! Talk about bad luck!!!! I am going to start checking not only the moon phases and tide charts before heading out, but also the bloody horoscope!!!!
