An unusual catch

I was downrigger trolling on Lindbergh Lake, and suddenly felt an odd vibration in my kayak.  While I was trying to figure out what it was, I noticed that although I was pedaling, my downrigger cable wasn’t forming a V-wave.  I had hooked something with my downrigger, but it wasn’t the bottom.  I tried to crank up my weight, and it came up, but was heavier than usual.  I figured that I must have hooked a branch, but when my weight surfaced, there was the handle from a waterskiing rope hooked on it.  I pulled up the rest of the rope.  The vibration I had felt was my downrigger line sliding over the texture of the rope.



Other than that, it was a pretty standard day.