Twin Lakes Thieves
Last summer I was fishing for largemouth at the Lower Twin Lake. I was on the rocks farthest from the boathouse. I cast out and was retrieving parallel to the shoreline when I saw a catfish shoot up from the bottom, grab my spinner bait, and take off. Broke my line! Luckily the lure was only a $2****s special.
Another time I was on the Upper Lake fishing a Terminator spinner. It was one of those titanium jobs with a lifetime guarantee. I had got into the habit of casting, waiting for the line to go slack and then beginning my retrieve. Well, I had got to the waiting for the line to go slack part when I got a really big hit. I was totally unprepared for this occurrence and my line immediately went slack again. I pulled in my line and the lure was gone. There wasn't even the curly bit where the knot had been tied. Thankfully I had gotten that lure free when Terminators first came out as a sample product. Some old guy started laughing at me and said I was dumb to fish for bass. He wanted to bet me that he could tie an old watch to a line and catch a bass on that. Sadly, as neither of us had an old watch, we were unable to test this theory.