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BFT, grouper, AJs, kings, and a fish story
Went out with Alex and got a few fish today. The most interesting part of the day was... I have to pause to start it with, What had happened was... while free lining a mackerel I stuck it in the down rigger holder with free spool drag and a bit later someone started eating it. The line must have wrapped around the tip because in 1/2 a second, the rod bent over and snapped the holder off the cannon down rigger like a lil toothpick. I said "oh poo" as I watched one of my Stella 20Ks on a Terez tuna popper rod get pulled down at a high rate of speed into 200ft of water. 10 minutes later there is a fish on another rod and as it is being pulled in there is some braid wrapped around the line. Could it be... Yes it was. It was nice to see $1,500 get pulled back into the boat, but kinda sad because now I have no reason to get a new reel.
Besides that, just a normal fishing day on the edge. One little tuna (bottom fishin with a hard tail), a few keeper AJs, a couple grouper-including one quarter of a decent one courtesy of some shark that decided he wanted a grouper sammich more than we did, kings, plenty of sharks bigish and small, and a few baby almacos from under various floating grass beds. Trolled around the nipple a bit with no joy.
Went out with Alex and got a few fish today. The most interesting part of the day was... I have to pause to start it with, What had happened was... while free lining a mackerel I stuck it in the down rigger holder with free spool drag and a bit later someone started eating it. The line must have wrapped around the tip because in 1/2 a second, the rod bent over and snapped the holder off the cannon down rigger like a lil toothpick. I said "oh poo" as I watched one of my Stella 20Ks on a Terez tuna popper rod get pulled down at a high rate of speed into 200ft of water. 10 minutes later there is a fish on another rod and as it is being pulled in there is some braid wrapped around the line. Could it be... Yes it was. It was nice to see $1,500 get pulled back into the boat, but kinda sad because now I have no reason to get a new reel.
Besides that, just a normal fishing day on the edge. One little tuna (bottom fishin with a hard tail), a few keeper AJs, a couple grouper-including one quarter of a decent one courtesy of some shark that decided he wanted a grouper sammich more than we did, kings, plenty of sharks bigish and small, and a few baby almacos from under various floating grass beds. Trolled around the nipple a bit with no joy.
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