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Hello Everyone, I am completely new to baitcasters and recently I got 2 baitcasters from a guy my dad works with. Both these baitcasters are the same type of brand. I will say the brand later in this post. Both the reels were lined by the guy who gave them to me but I don’t know how long they had been from being reclined. I have a simple question. This may be a dumb question by I’m still learning trying my best. The line that is on it currently is overlapping over each other. I was wondering if this means it is pretty much tangled. I have simply no idea if I should reline it because of this or it is ok. The baitcaster I’m currently using is a Pro Qualifier 2 Baitcaster by bass pro. I hope someone can help me out. I need it drastically.

Hello Everyone, I am completely new to baitcasters and recently I got 2 baitcasters from a guy my dad works with. Both these baitcasters are the same type of brand. I will say the brand later in this post. Both the reels were lined by the guy who gave them to me but I don’t know how long they had been from being reclined. I have a simple question. This may be a dumb question by I’m still learning trying my best. The line that is on it currently is overlapping over each other. I was wondering if this means it is pretty much tangled. I have simply no idea if I should reline it because of this or it is ok. The baitcaster I’m currently using is a Pro Qualifier 2 Baitcaster by bass pro. I hope someone can help me out. I need it drastically.

I was definitely thinking that man! This was the first bass I was like “wow, I can really get somewhat good at bass fishing.” So it would be cool to hang that and know that was the fish that had given me confidence to go 100% 24/7?

I haven’t really thought about it like that. It makes so much freaking sense though... I don’t know if the people who’ve told me this in the past have fished tournaments because they people who have said this are people I talk to when fishing and I never really see them again. Makes tons of sense though

Hey y’all! Just felt like letting you guys know I have actually just caught my PB largemouth bass 3 Pounds 15 Ounces! This has been my 1st year of taking bass fishing serious! Anyone know how to add a picture of this fish through a phone? It keeps saying the picture file is to big!

I have sort of changed my mind on being vegan toward Bass because everyone is saying how incredibly good they are... people I have known said they never liked bass so that discouraged me from trying it haha

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These replies have me thinking completely different about this now. This isn’t the first time I have accidentally killed a bass but this time it had bothered me. Thanks for this reply man! I’m sure a snapper had a good meal out of him.

Ok not gonna lie... this response was hilarious? Hello sir! No disrespect taken from me! You are definitely right. I am not upset about this anymore because I just needed to remember that this happens. By the way when I mentioned I was vegan towards largemouth I didn’t expect people to think the way a lot of you are responding. I know very well eating fish is not a sin. I have cooked tons of fish in my 5 years fishing and will continue to do so. I should of said I’m more so vegan towards bass that are scarce rather than over populated I cannot begin to thank you enough for sharing some of your wisdom toward me. I need to look at the population thing as a key factor. I was well aware that over population of any fish was bad but completely forgot about this when it happened. You are right and I will learn to hopefully unhook gutted fish and if I can’t I’ll look at it completely different!??

I have always been a guy who is extremely sensitive toward any sorts of animals. Whether it’s a reptile, amphibian, mammal, you name it. Largemouth Bass to me are very special. They have been building me into a man as I am 17 years old right now finding myself. Bass have helped me find myself. This is why I am so discouraged. Today I fished a small local neighborhood lake that I love very much. Has some toads of bass here in the Midwest. I was wacky rigging a YUM Dinger and was catching a few quality fish here and their enjoying my time along the bank catching fish as usual. So after catching some I had ended up hooking another bass and was reeling it in and it was by far the biggest of the few I had caught today. It was not big at all but it was probably 1 pound & about 5 to 10 ounces I’d say. When I reeled it up I noticed I had hooked the throat of this beautiful fish. I tried getting the hook out with pliers but didn’t pull hard at all because then I would of made the situation worse for the poor fish by tearing its throat out. I made the sad choice to cut the line and hope for that somehow he would swim away even though I very much so knew that this fish was most likely in serious trouble of death. Once I let him go I instantly felt so sorry for it. It was fighting so hard to just keep on living. With all of its energy it had tried so hard. I actually reached in and got it back again with my hand to maybe force myself to put it out of its misery. But I just couldn’t do stab it in the brain to make it brain dead. I couldn’t get myself to kill this bass for some reason. I was so discouraged and as embarrassing as this is to admit extremely sad about this today. I had made a promise a little while back to ALWAYS be vegan towards strictly Bass. I love bluegill and all other freshwater fish but I never will eat a bass. So if your wondering why I didn’t want to just eat it I don’t fillet bass unlike I do with all the other freshwater fish. I am very discouraged and I am well aware this bass went to good use for whatever has eaten it, it still makes me ache. Catching Bass isn’t just a sport to me, they are also apart of me. Did I do the wrong thing not killing it even though I just couldn’t seem to stab it? Should I be upset and discouraged? Thanks for reading my post and look forward to hearing replies! This is Passion 4 Bassin (P4B) and goodbye. EDIT: After all these replies about how good bass are... I feel like I might as well try cook a nice largemouth Bass sometime?? Thanks everyone for all this feedback. I hope to read more.