This is when you hook a fish that is too much for your tackle.
This usually happens when wading because you can't chase the fish like in a boat.
I think I have been "spooled" more than once but one time really comes to mind.
I was at Christmas Island in the 1980s with a group through the shop.
Our boat dropped us off at Paris Flats across the bay in 4 feet of water so as we waded in it got shallower.
I noticed a really big Bonefish coming off the shallow flats heading into deeper water on an out going tide.
Big Bonefish seem to always angle away from you and head out at the same time.
I think it was in maybe 3 feet of clear water on a white sand bottom.
I quickly made a long cast out in front of this fish hoping it might see my fly as to passed the area.
Just luck that it ate my Crazy Charlie fly and just kept going.
I waded after it out to shoulder deep water and when I ran to the end of 200 feet of 20# Micron backing the 10# clear
Mason tippet parted.
It was a helpless but exhilarating experience.......
Have you ever been "spooled"?
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