07-12-2006, 04:00 PM
We went out to the reef a couple of days ago. We weren't able to find any live bait inshore, I think the barametric pressure was a little low, and the wind had them down deep.
I was surprised how calm it was, atleast it was calm compared to my last trip out. We started catching fish right away. We caught alot of sea bass, pin fish, and toad fish. We also got a few strikes on the float rigs.
The high light of the day was the huge barracuda that my son caught. He weighed 62 pounds, that's a huge cuda. I didn't any sooner get the ballon rig casted out and he hit. I gave the line a little jerk and passed the buck onto my son. As soon as I handed off the reel, that damn cuda jumped clear over the boat missing my father in laws head by about 2 feet. I froze in disbelief, but came back to my senses when I saw him hit the water on the other side. What a huge fish, especially in mid flight. My son fought him for about 10 minutes on the 25 pound Big Game line I had the Okuma's spooled with, and I finally saw color along side the boat after 3 blistering, but short runs. What an awesome experiance. [cool]
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I was surprised how calm it was, atleast it was calm compared to my last trip out. We started catching fish right away. We caught alot of sea bass, pin fish, and toad fish. We also got a few strikes on the float rigs.
The high light of the day was the huge barracuda that my son caught. He weighed 62 pounds, that's a huge cuda. I didn't any sooner get the ballon rig casted out and he hit. I gave the line a little jerk and passed the buck onto my son. As soon as I handed off the reel, that damn cuda jumped clear over the boat missing my father in laws head by about 2 feet. I froze in disbelief, but came back to my senses when I saw him hit the water on the other side. What a huge fish, especially in mid flight. My son fought him for about 10 minutes on the 25 pound Big Game line I had the Okuma's spooled with, and I finally saw color along side the boat after 3 blistering, but short runs. What an awesome experiance. [cool]
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