This dude hit the water at 7:30 a.m.. The water temperature was 60, and the wind was blowing. Went to a spot where he had caught fish the day before, but someone else already was on the spot, so he decided to fish another nearby area.
The Good. At 8:15, he hooked up with a really nice fish on his Carolina rig (C-rig), with an Upton Custom baby brush hog in smoked pepper attached. His scales registered the fish at 6 and a half pounds. After checking the weight, he grabbed his camera and snapped a couple of pictures.
The Bad. When the angler looked up from taking the photos, he realized the wind quickly was blowing him off his spot. About the same time, he saw a guy in a grayish blue Ranger headed his way from about 100-plus yards off. This Ranger guy proceeded to pull in front of him and drop his trolling motor over the spot where he had caught the nice fish.
The Ugly. This upset the fella, but his problem was compounded when he looked around for his C-rig to make a cast in the direction of the spot where he had caught the fish. The rod was nowhere to be found.
"Holy crud!!!" the fella thought. "My Loomis GLX Carolina rod with a Calais 200DC reel is gone."
He spent the next hour and a half dragging different baits around, trying to locate and hook it. The fella subsequently sent out an APB to all his fishin' buddies, asking them to check out the area where he lost the rod if they happened to be in the vicinity in the next day or two.
"I lost the rod and reel just west of the east buoy, in water somewhere between 12 and 45 feet deep...Argh!" he explained.
One buddy who saw his APB came back, asking if he had lost the rod because of the wind. He said he really wasn't sure.
"All I remember is that I was trying to take a picture of my fish, and the next thing I knew, the rod was just gone," he said, adding, "Guess I'll have to hold a garage sale to raise funds for a new rod and reel."
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