The "Take!"

[Adam_777]

Either the first cast take that isn't expected or the last cast before going home to hit the bottle .I love watching bass and blues come out of the water dive bombing topwater plugs.Always gets my adrenaline rocking !

[Stewie]

I was fishing off some rocks in Maine. Decent bass were jumping out of the water and coming down on our dannys with their mouths wide open. I've never seen this before or since, but it was impressive.

[GonnaCatchABig1]

my personal favorite ever was in my ole river. (larry you know it) theres was a yatch club boat launch crane peir and then about 20-40ft of water and then a jetty. so it was tight quarters from the end of the jetty. nice stained water would prevent much of anything deeper than a 1ft or 2 from being visible. working a broken back slowly along the surface... only about 10 ft a way. all you would see it a small ripple which would grow into a large wake. then a fin would pop up out of the water as you started to make out the head of this. a seconds worth of trailing and catching up and then BAM!!!

it probably only last a 3 seconds TOPS. but every time it seemed like time slowed down and it all would happen in slow motion. i miss it. i havent been able to replicate it in a long time.

[Slipknot]

The favorite "take" for me has to be when the jig bouncing along nicely 40 feet down and 120 yards out, as you go to pump the next bounce the line just comes taught and does not budge an inch. For a moment you think you're hung up out there solid to the bottom, so you set hard again but in that split second of that thought you now feel it pull back and line comes off the spool slowly, then as the fish turns , line comes off even faster. Now you know you have a good one on. That is my favorite take. I have not had the pleasure of all that many of those but I sm ile and cherish each and every one of those because you know it's got to be a 30 pound or better fish.

I also love the topwater action when using a surf howdy or a pencil popper.
Also the take when reeling in a needlefish plug out on the beach at night, the take brings you right back to life and wakes me up.

[Tagger]

My favirote take is in close at night .. Just when your about to give up on a retrieve a fish blows up right in front of you .. You have to be in the water to fully appreciate this ,,, scares the bejesus out of you ..

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by Tagger

My favirote take is in close at night .. Just when your about to give up on a retrieve a fish blows up right in front of you .. You have to be in the water to fully appreciate this ,,, scares the bejesus out of you ..

My fav, too.

[Raider Ronnie]

It's ALL good and all a bit different!

[steve]

The hit on a rigged eel is like non-other. But every hit is good. I think Frank Daignault said the hit or "take" is the best thing about fishing, or something like that.

[Striperhound]

For me it is eel's, you never know what you will have for size on the other end, subtle take 40lb fish, hard take 5 lb fish, next time it could be the other way around.

The one I still cant erase is casting 1 1/2 bucks off Newport into big surf. Water was so confused you could not see anything just before light, at my feet buck stops and fish dumps my VS 250 filled with 50lb PP, couldnt stop it.

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by Stewie

I was fishing off some rocks in Maine. Decent bass were jumping out of the water and coming down on our dannys with their mouths wide open. I've never seen this before or since, but it was impressive.

THAT SAME take happened to me at the avenues,

bout 45 mins into first last Aug ~~olive over white, Danny.
then she sounded for all she was worth as her tail went at
a 90 degree angle into the depths.............

YUP!! Stewie that was an impressive HIT. Still one of my all time
favorites on the Exhiliration Scale of Excellence. she absolutely
committed to that swimmer, and HAMMERED it rather nicely!!