The acrobatic bronzeback made several healthy leaps, occasionally clearing the surface by four feet or more. But rather that laying the net in the water and letting me work the fish to it, he stabbed at the fish and wound up hooking the treble hook of my lure. When he jerked the net back, it popped the lure out of the bass' mouth and it got away. If you fish for bass with any regularity, you're going to lose one every now and then. A bull in a china cabinet is a more suitable description for a big bass that's trying to tear free from a potential captor.
Countless things can go wrong when a monster largemouth gets wreckless.
That's where being prepared comes in, which means a lot more than being attentive to the strike. But even premium lines are going to wear with time. If a big bass angler has a worst enemy, it's got to be fishing line gone bad. Martin will rarely try to swing a fish larger than four pounds. A line fray can occur in several ways.