First, we were fishing in the B&R flats yesterday morning. My wife paddled into a small cove where she saw tailing reds. Nothing on topwaters. Switched to GULP and bam! It was the biggest red she ever hooked. She fought it around the boat and back again. She was just getting ready to ease up on the drag and let the thing pull drag so she wouldn't lose it. Kaboom. The knot holding the leader to the monofilament let loose - and you know the rest of the story.
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About 30 minutes later I hooked a nice red on GULP. When I had rigged this particular GULP (a 4" shrimp) I got lazy. I did not have the hook coming through the bottom and out in the midline of the top. Instead, the hook came out the side of the bait and laid flush against the side. I was tired and it was let and I thought, "What the hell. I'm not going to catch anything anyway." Well, I did, for about two minutes. Then the damn thing shook the hook. Next time I will make sure the bait is rigged properly everytime.
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