It's one thing to lose a monster catch due to your own angling skills (or lack thereof), or because your tackle fails, but when the culprit is a speeding idiot on a boat, you're left with a whole different form of frustration.
As noted by Jesse Males, the gent who posted this item on the Web, "It would have been hard not to (want to) find a way to get some sweet revenge" for anyone who had been this kind of victim.
Who knows? Perhaps this bite had been the fella's only one all day. If so, this loss had to be doubly bad.
Males contends that recovery from losing a fish involves seven stages. First, there is denial, during which time you may have some self doubts about whether you ever would have been able to land the fish in the first place.
Then comes the realization that you didn't land the fish, and you'll likely never see it again.
The third stage is assigning blame, which, in this case, is quite easy--it was the idiot driving the speeding boat. Otherwise, it might have been the line's fault, or maybe the rod and reel hadn't worked right, or perhaps your horoscope for that day had you jinxed (it had said not to expect any good luck).
Once your anger calms down, you get slapped in the face with a bout of despair. There's just no other way to feel about the hawg that got away but sad.
Then comes recovery, as you realize there are plenty of other fish in the sea.
Finally, it's on to the next one. You just get a few seconds to run through all of these emotions, before it's time to make another cast and try to get your next fish.
Even kids have been known to throw a temper tantrum over losing a fish. Males says the young man in the accompanying photo went totally bonkers when he lost one. "He even tried to attack his fellow fisherman and the guy with the camera."
Here's hoping all your future fishing trips allow you to come away smiling from ear to ear.
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