Someone Please Clear My Mind. 2024
IowaBass15 reply :
Okay so while fishing today I lost I big fish and I'm hoping it wasn't a bass because it was huge and it's going to bug me for weeks haha. This pond here in iowa is public and as far as I know I've caught the biggest bass out of it at 5.2 pounds. I've to people who've fished ir for years and they always say their PB there is between 3-4 pounds. Anyways, I was throwing a swim jig and just got a dink at a pound maybe a little more and he was hanging in the hydrilla. I ripped a swim jig through it and bam. So I went to the main point and casted out and was reeling slow and trying to stay deep since it was windy the depth there was probably 8-14 feet. All of a sudden my line got extremely heavy and started pulling drag. I had my drag at max set not thinking about it. There was no initial bite just reeling and boom my line is heavy with drag being pulled. Before I could loosen my drag my line snapped. This pond holds bass, blue gill, crappie, big big snapping turtles, and really really big grass carp since it's just infested with hydrilla. I was using a 7'3 mh casting rod, abu garcia revo sx 7.1 reel and 17lb p line cxx. Is it even possible for a bass to snap 17lb copolymer in the matter of 5 seconds? I think I snagged a big ol carp because it just darted and snapped my line really really fast. I also got a mammoth snapping turtle there on 10lb copolymer. What's rhe odds it was a bass?
Josh Smith reply :
Sounds like a turtle or carp.
Josh
MidwestF1sh reply :
With how it bit and the sound of how it fought I would almost bet anything on a huge carp. Or 8lb bass......
IowaBass15 reply :
Don't do that to me midwestf1sh! It's unheard of hear in eastern central iowa to catch anything over 6 pounds but it does happen in a blue moon but never tiny little public ponds i was fisbing. d**n that would've been killer. I'm hoping it was a carp but you better believe I'm going back tomorrow night and the following nights casting a swim jig in the same location haha.
IowaBass15 reply :
There's also really big catfish in that little lake too so it could be been a big cat. I hate those things anyways.
ClackerBuzz reply :
in my experience small public ponds don't have the forage necessary to support an 8lb bass
Ski213 reply :
A bass could easily break 17lb in an instant if there's a weak knot or the line has been stressed/damaged or it can quickly pull the line across a rock or sharp point on a laydown.
If you feel pretty confident that its none of those then I would guess turtle or big cat.
IowaBass15 reply :
I was using a Polomar knot I tied right before I caught the 1.25 pounds so I don't ge damaged it. The pond is only 18 acres so I mean it's tiny. That's why I said the biggest I've ever hears is my signature picture which weighed right over 5 pounds.
Ski213 reply :
On 9/16/2015 at 11:12 AM, IowaBass15 said:I was using a Polomar knot I tied right before I caught the 1.25 pounds so I don't ge damaged it. The pond is only 18 acres so I mean it's tiny. That's why I said the biggest I've ever hears is my signature picture which weighed right over 5 pounds.
Then I would guess cat, only cause that's been my experience in smaller bodies of water in similar situations. You'll always wonder but that's okay. That's what keeps us all going back.
Dogface reply :
On 9/16/2015 at 10:56 AM, Ski213 said:A bass could easily break 17lb in an instant if there's a weak knot or the line has been stressed/damaged or it can quickly pull the line across a rock or sharp point on a laydown.
If you feel pretty confident that its none of those then I would guess turtle or big cat.
Or if your drag is too tight. The drag is there to protect the line.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Big catfish would about rip the rod out of your hands on the strike and a big carp would take off very fast. A big bass could very easily snap 17lb copolymer in heavy cover like that. The biggest bass I've caught in KS was in a public body of water they call a lake but it's only about 10 fishable acres. I've caught 7 pounders out of ponds that I could cast across. Lots of factors play into fish size, not just the size of the body of water.
It sounds like you lost a monster bass to me. Learn from this experience and get some braid on that rod when you're fishing heavy grass! I wouldn't go lighter than 50lb from the sounds of what you're describing.
Jar11591 reply :
When my line snaps that quickly, its usually the result of a "bite-off" from a Northern Pike or Pickerel.
everythingthatswims reply :
I don't think you could snag a carp with a swim jig because of the weedguard. But I would definitely tell myself it was a carp
scaleface reply :
I would only rule out turtle . They are slow .
Mainebass1984 reply :
You'll never know what is was. Might as well keep on fishing as if it was an 8 lb bass.
IowaBass15 reply :
That's exactly what it was like just swimming the jig then the line got super heavy and took the rod out of my hand. I was holding it one handed leaning towards the water trying to loosen my drag then snap. It was a strike king fine wire swim jig 5/16th ounce the weed guard itself I'd very brittle. In my head I'm saying it was a carp or cat but part me thinks it big momma bass of the pond.
Josh Smith reply :
Carp have been known to bite artificials. Not often, but sometimes.
My biggest fish was a huge buffalo fish. It ran like you describe. Only difference was I had mono and had set the drag. It bent the hook on that old inline spinner I got from Grandpa.
Josh
Sam reply :
Totally a bass.
Probably a 12 pound or more lady.
Keep trying to catch her.
Senko lover reply :
I've caught carp, turtle, and catfish before while fishing for bass (well, I guess the carp was snagged), so I would guess it was one of those.
Raul reply :
On 9/16/2015 at 9:27 PM, IowaBass15 said:That's exactly what it was like just swimming the jig then the line got super heavy and took the rod out of my hand. I was holding it one handed leaning towards the water trying to loosen my drag then snap. It was a strike king fine wire swim jig 5/16th ounce the weed guard itself I'd very brittle. In my head I'm saying it was a carp or cat but part me thinks it big momma bass of the pond.
There goes your personal best.
IowaBass15 reply :
The biggest bass ever got in iowa was a farm pound was just over 10 pounds so I'm assuming she was 12 but it could've been a big bass. Just spooled the revo up with 50lb braid and gonna fish the are until around 7 30. Changed the skirt and trailer to keep then guessing.
IowaBass15 reply :
In a farm pound*
buzzed bait reply :
On 9/16/2015 at 8:18 PM, scaleface said:I would only rule out turtle . They are slow .
having had 2 recently chase down my spinnerbait i would not rule them out.... I had a MONSTER snapping turtle snag a spinnerbait about a month ago. Lucky for him and me, he came unbuttoned right at the bank!
Like MaineBass said, keep fishing as though it was a bass.... Try, try and try again!
baxtervol reply :
This is similar to a huge turtle I hooked earlier this summer on twelve pound test. The line suddenly got heavy, moved away in a straight path, was impossible to turn, and snapped the line after a few seconds.
The reason I know mine was a turtle was that it was caught on a trot line a few days later by the pond owner with my rig still in its mouth. It weighed every bit of twenty pounds.
The fact you were using a jig makes me wonder if it may have been a big bass. Of course you will likely never know, but I would be excited about my next trip to the pond!
I guess I would try to convince myself that I lost a turtle, while simultaneously believing a new PB is definitely close at hand.
I hope the battle goes your way the next time. Good luck!
scaleface reply :
I have caught lots of turtles and they have fought slowly but evidently others have had different experience with them .So I stand corrected .
chadmack282 reply :
Bass
Bankbeater reply :
Check your line and drag. Make sure all is in good condition and keep fishing. Nothing you can do about a lost fish after it happens.
MidwestF1sh reply :
I caught my biggest carp ever on a 3/8 ounce jig and burner craw this summer. Flipped it next to a dock and I didn't feel the bite but all of a sudden it just took off. Started pullen me around in my 19' boat.
But then again... 8lb bass do like swim jigs.
WRB reply :
It doesn't sound like the fish was running through anything, not a lot of grass or wood or across rocks, just pulling harder than the line strength could withstand, I call this being freight trained.
17 lb line, even at 80% knot strength is still over 14 lbs, bass can't pull that hard and your rod can't take 1/2 that much force. If the line wasn't cut or abraided, it wasn't a bass, if there wasn't a tree, fence post, boulder or some other structure to pull the line against.
Sounds like a 25-30 lb cat, carp or turtle.
Lesson learned, set your drag at 1/3 the breaking strength, ie 5 to 6 lbs for 17 lb test line.
Tom
GetJigginWithIt reply :
On 9/16/2015 at 8:17 PM, everythingthatswims said:I don't think you could snag a carp with a swim jig because of the weedguard. But I would definitely tell myself it was a carp
Believe it or not, my son snagged a big cat in the side with a jig.
Turtle135 reply :
I had a grass carp around 40" grab a spinnerbait. The hook was in the mouth so I have no doubt that on occasion they will try to eat a lure. That fish smoked drag like nothing I have ever hooked in freshwater. Just a straight line run for about half the spool.
Ratherbfishing reply :
Most likely culprit: a big cat.
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