The Stench Has Abated For The Last Time
After YEARS... I have finally caught this smelly little rat of a fish. No longer shall I be flying out to the far reaches of that gods awful frozen wasteland. I don't even want to think about how many hundreds of live spiders I've needed to pick outta my tackle sack and clip onto my lure to get those Ice Faerie slugs to bait out this fucker. If you've ever caught a charibenet before... I sympathize and I hope you never have to freeze your finger tips off dealing with so many spiders again too.
I swear, catching this fish alone was a doozy, sure... but nobody talks about how just how hard it is to manage a tackle sack full of purse web spiders. My tackle sack is kinda like a purse, so you can just imagine the amount of webs I've gotta clean out every night. Not to mention the whole logistical nightmare of keeping hundreds of spiders from eating all your other live bait. AND you've gotta keep them alive, too! Keeping them out of the cold enough that they don't all curl up and die before you can throw them onto icy water is honestly harder than catching any fish. I had a whole system for casting little tiny fire spells into my highly flammable tackle sack to keep them warm enough, and only SEVEN times did it get out of hand and cost me half my bait and half my bag. I'm always by the water though, so it's not as big a deal as it sounds! Usually. Live bait needs warmth AND hydration after all HAHA! I wonder if tackle sack heating is a solved problem, now that I think about it...
Anyways! After many years I can finally take my last 27 spiders back to the vendor I got them from, surely he'll have an easier time dealing with them than I do. One less frozen hell I need to regularly visit.