Well my fishing buddy and I were sitting on a dock on Santa Roas Sound floating baloons with live pinfish with a brisk North wind at dusk. As the sun set behind the horizon, we see what we think is a large bull red under the dock swimming toward our baits.....then fish on......the baloon was skidding South, rod bowed and reel screaming on the rod holder. By chance, I had used a medium trout rod with a baitrunner Penn reel wound with 300 yards of 15 lb brand new yellow Suffix braid. Feeling confident, the drag kept going out as I tightened it, but it kept goung out for 5+ minutes and would not stop. After about 5+ minutes, it stopped taking out drag but would not budge with me beginning to apply pressure....any more, the rod would break or line snap, so we waited applying pressure for 10-15 minutes, but he still had strength beginning to take out some more drag. He was out now about 250 yards and I only had 50 yards left.
Would you believe a boat with a waterskier flew by and cut the line!!!! While we thought our near sighting was a redfish(he looked like a big red), we concluded he was a huge jack crevelle. What do you think????
AJ
Would you believe a boat with a waterskier flew by and cut the line!!!! While we thought our near sighting was a redfish(he looked like a big red), we concluded he was a huge jack crevelle. What do you think????
AJ