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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a young fella, I was blessed to have the opportunity to go fishing whenever I pleased. Growing up on the shoreline of Lake Waubesa was a gift I don’t think I ever fully appreciated until we moved. However, during my years on the lake I caught many of fish right from our concrete seawall–most of them routine catch and release. What I can say for certain, however, is that on one specific day, there truly was a remarkable event that took place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had been fishing with a brand new lure, a Rapala blue-shad minnow. And if you know, you know, but fishing lures can be quite expensive. Anyways, not long after I began casting I felt something on the line, a largemouth bass. I set the hook, start bringing her in, and the boom–the line snaps. Not only did I lose the fish, but I lost my brand new *expensive* lure. Or so I thought. I think maybe 5 or so minutes had passed and as I was re-rigging my line something incredible happened. That big ol’ bass that stole my lure jumped up completely out of the surface, violently shook her head, and sent my lure flying right back at me on the shore. I got my lure back, and the bass saved a trip to the dentist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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As a young fella, I was blessed to have the opportunity to go fishing whenever I pleased. Growing up on the shoreline of Lake Waubesa was a gift I don’t think I ever fully appreciated until we moved. However, during my years on the lake I caught many of fish right from our concrete seawall–most of them routine catch and release. What I can say for certain, however, is that on one specific day, there truly was a remarkable event that took place. I had been fishing with a brand new lure, a Rapala blue-shad minnow. And if you know, you know, but fishing lures can be quite expensive. Anyways, not long after I began casting I felt something on the line, a largemouth bass. I set the hook, start bringing her in, and the boom–the line snaps. Not only did I lose the fish, but I lost my brand new *expensive* lure. Or so I thought. I think maybe 5 or so minutes had passed and as I was re-rigging my line something incredible happened. That big ol’ bass that stole my lure jumped up completely out of the surface, violently shook her head, and sent my lure flying right back at me on the shore. I got my lure back, and the bass saved a trip to the dentist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/josephdoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}