That hurts Ray--but in a good way :tongue:
To make a short story longer--I brought my trusty old reeder S-glass dual purpose fishing weapon, and neglected to bring a backup rod. My worm gear failed me, so I was forced to pick up a kenai special with 17# STREN!!
The boys were all hung up on fishing hardware off their diver and downrigger, so I just rigged up a little 6 ounce trolling sinker with an 8' leader and a whole 6" herring with a SWEEEEEEET little roll and proceeded to take the boys to school.
Cuaght Mr. Big at 20 pulls (around 35-40 feet). He fought like a champion, ripping off over 100 yards of line before we could get the boat turned around to follow him. When we did, he sounded, and I do mean sounded, as it took me a long time to get him back up. Acted like a freaking halibut! Got him up close when he ran under the boat and became caught in the downrigger wire that BankMaggot had neglected to bring in! 17# test sawing on wire... :shocked: not good! Managed to get him losse, when after 5 more minutes we had him on top surfing at the boat.
Everythings going great when we realize we shoulda brought a bigger net! He stretched across the whole thing! His head was wrong so we retracted the net and he sounded again. Another 5 minutes (which seemed like an hour), and we got him in the boat :dance: Thanks Ug and BM!!
Oh yeah. We were rigging for bottomfish when I dipped my line in the water to straighten my twistertail and fly's when I was swarmed by a marauding pack of coho!! Could have limited right then if we hadn't already, as the fish finder showed a black cloud below us!
Moved on to bottomfish, where Ug and I schooled BankMaggot in the proper techniques for catching fat lings and seabass.
I feel guilty for being such a selfish guest
All in all, a pretty fair day on the salt.
The company could've been better though...
