I like night fishing. I like to fish close to constructions. We all do, we zander anglers. On that day it was exactly like that – night , a bridge and the most powerful strike in my life. The SCARIEST strike …
It was a calm night. 3 of us were fishing from a big boat close to a bridge. All our senses were sharpened. We were feeling lures perfectly. We were feeling every contact with the bottom. Yes, that’s night zander fishing. You feel it with your whole body.
After another cast, the whole routine was broken … I was waiting too long for a lure to hit the water. Suddenly I realized what had happened and I started to retrieve quicker to get the lure from… The bridge? Unfortunately it snagged and I didn’t want to pull hard to avoid the lure becoming a bullet but … yes maybe I should. Because when I heard the noise of an incoming train it was too late. My reel started to scream. The noise was shocking but very brief. The line broke very quickly. Nobody was hurt, the rod hadn’t been broken , only my knees were still shaking…
