Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Skunked out at Cedar, but did not fish there for long, maybe 40 mins. Headed off to my really local pond Heron for the remainder of the time I had available and wow am I glad I did !

8lbs test line, green Uncle Josh Pork Frog and a brown and black jig.

2nd cast out and a hard bite and I knew I had something nice hooked...a minute later with much splashing I landed a really nice 4lb 2oz bass !!  Was a real beauty a really pretty fish, fat and long.

That was not the end of the though... same set up got me 3 cat fish the smallest being just over 2lb and the largest just under 3lb. Found it odd that I should be catching cat fish on this set up seems the cat fish in Heron will bite on just about anything atm.


I switched at that point to a blue frog on a blue and black jig as I wanted bass not cat fish and thought maybe the different color would produce different results. I caught a couple of other reasonable size bass but nothing that I bothered to weigh. Feeling really good about my mornings fishing and nearing the time I had to head home I cast out once more. Something I am not quite sure what , but something fairly large took the frog and headed away from me a a good rate of knots. Slowly I started to reel it in and then letting it run again.
The very sad end to whatever it was that took that frog was that my line broke (I suspect that my line inspections after other catches had missed a nick in the line or something) and whatever it was is now in Heron pong with my pig n jig firmly embeded in its mouth

I know hooks and stuff 'rot' away but how long does it take ? Do you think the fish will live ? Whatever it was must have been fairly big to put up the fight it did. I really feel quite upset and concerned for the wealfare of that fish