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Havent done a post in a long time, i figured this one was worth it though.
Made a late start coming out of orange beach in my buddies 26' walk around he let me borrow, Cory, Palmer, Tfrank and Myself, had live pinfish and threadfin. Headed 30 miles south-east in around 200' of water and were planning to grouper fish, made our first drift and hooked one fish and broke it off, i decided to put out a flat line with my new Stella 10k, 60lb flourcarbon wind-on leader, 8/0 inline ssw owner cirle, right in the face of one of those thread fin, made our second drift hooked two grouper and broke one off and pulled hook on the other right as my Stella starts screaming, i run from the wheel and grab the rod and put more drag on it, had 300 yards of 50lb Momoi Diamond braid, he took abhout 250 yards on the initial run. Cory was already at the wheel i yelled to follow the fish, after and hour of fighting up and down, several several runs, Tfrank stuck the gaff in him, and also got a 10" Dexter in the foot, we had a cooler sliding around during the fight that was holding the knife against the gunnel when we were cutting squid for scamp bait, need-less to say we had to get him to the hospital, we didnt get any pictures of his foot but it was pretty tore up.... Ran in around 45mph got to Sportsman around 12:30, they didnt have a scale, we got Tfrank off to the hospital and headed to Zeke's. Weighed the fish, came in right at 83.90.....
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Hated that to happen to Tfrank, and i wont let it happen agian.
Made a late start coming out of orange beach in my buddies 26' walk around he let me borrow, Cory, Palmer, Tfrank and Myself, had live pinfish and threadfin. Headed 30 miles south-east in around 200' of water and were planning to grouper fish, made our first drift and hooked one fish and broke it off, i decided to put out a flat line with my new Stella 10k, 60lb flourcarbon wind-on leader, 8/0 inline ssw owner cirle, right in the face of one of those thread fin, made our second drift hooked two grouper and broke one off and pulled hook on the other right as my Stella starts screaming, i run from the wheel and grab the rod and put more drag on it, had 300 yards of 50lb Momoi Diamond braid, he took abhout 250 yards on the initial run. Cory was already at the wheel i yelled to follow the fish, after and hour of fighting up and down, several several runs, Tfrank stuck the gaff in him, and also got a 10" Dexter in the foot, we had a cooler sliding around during the fight that was holding the knife against the gunnel when we were cutting squid for scamp bait, need-less to say we had to get him to the hospital, we didnt get any pictures of his foot but it was pretty tore up.... Ran in around 45mph got to Sportsman around 12:30, they didnt have a scale, we got Tfrank off to the hospital and headed to Zeke's. Weighed the fish, came in right at 83.90.....
Hated that to happen to Tfrank, and i wont let it happen agian.
Great fish!
