Me and Bobbyz04 needed to wash off the smell of skunk from sharbot so before he headed home today we spent a few very cold hours on Loughborough. We landed a couple small lakers which was pretty good considering we drilled one set of holes and just set up camp, way to cold to be moving around.
So although I was happy to get some fish, I am pissed that I lost 4. I just screwed up setting the drag too light for the first few and wasnt getting a good hook set in 50fow. i think I was getting fooled into thinking the drag was set tight when actually it was just the line freezing to the bail arm. Then to compensate for my previous mistakes I nailed the drag down and lost the last one to a break off because I forgot to back off the drag while I was fighting the fish. I dont expect to land all of my hookups when fishing deep water but should have done better than 1 for 5.
Lesson learned for next time.
