some days it doesn't pay to smoke.

[grt1]

This morning i took an hour or so to try my luck at the little river just down the road from the house to see if i could upgrade my pike submission for team 10. After 30 minutes, there hadn't been a bite so i ventured up to the truck and pulled out a cigar to sit back and enjoy. Sure as shootin, i no sooner had a couple puffs when my line starts to run.

 

Now being the prepared fisherman that i am, i had put my cigar holder on my chair just in case this happened. I grabbed my pole and set the hook (i thought) then fumbled around to put my cigar in the holder. while doing this i let out some slack line so the pike could run a bit. This was not a good idea.

 

by the time i got the cigar in the holder, the pike had spit the hook but kept the bait. (it had to be a big pike 40 inches plus as it's always the big ones that get away.)

 

What a bummer, after that the cigar just didn't have the same soothing effect as it did prior to the bite.

 

I've been told the cigars are going to kill me, but today they just got me a little po'd.

 

That was the only bite i had so maybe tomorrow, i'll try again after all, i still got more cigars in the truck

[Rod Caster]

I've singed my mustache a few times trying to light a smoke and watching my line at the same time. Definitly a hazard sometimes.

[Grimace]

I think that was fish was an easy 45 incher. Easy. :-)

[Billy Bob]

Cigars wouldn't kill you, but the smoke might....LOL

[Canuck2fan]

Hopefully that pike is related to the ones around here.... in about 10 minutes you can rehook the same pike. Seen more than one friend get his bait back that way.

 

Unless it was a cuban why not just drop the cigar LOL.

[GBW]

I feel your pain; as I too am a smoker and it happens all the time.

[aplumma]

My favorite is when you are lifting the rod up fighting a fish and you lift it into the cherry of a good stogie and PING BYE BYE.....

 

 

Art

[The Urban Fisherman]

I think that was fish was an easy 45 incher. Easy. :-)

 

no way, I say it was pushing 50! you guys don't know a big pike when you hear about one...

[Realsteel19]

LOL another reason to quit!