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Tooljunkie said

I remember a battle with a bass. Little bugger kept cleaning off my hook.
I had a square minnow net,dropped it in and placed my hook above it. As soon as i got a nibble,hauled net up.
Finally caught what was cleaning off my hook.
Took all day. I was a kid, had nothing better to do.

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Sometimes, winning the battle is most of the fun when fishing.

I had one today that cleaned my hook six times in a row. I thought it was just a little one that couldn’t get the hook in it’s mouth since I was using fairly large minnows. When I cast out just the remaining head from minnow number six, I finally got him. Turned out to be a big fish that clearly knew how to strip bait.

He was also the biggest fish of the day.