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Random Quote: You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish
We are in a 4 month tournament (hence the hand signal) so I can not give the exact weight but it is over 40 and under 45 pounds. This fish is presently in third place of species.
The fish first hit a green & yellow skirted ballyhoo smoker pulled behind two like color birds. The whole leader is 18 feet long. After chomping that bait he moved over to the outrigger with a chrome alien skirted ballyhoo where the hook set.
We were about 80 miles in 750 feet of water offshore Jacksonville. The water temp was 78.5.
It was a GREAT fight. When he first broke the surface I remember looking around for other boats I thought there is no way that could be our fish. He was through ¾ of the TLD 25 with 30 pound line. I loosened up on the drag. I thought we were going to have to chase him down but I was able to finally get some line back and we fought straight up. After 45 minutes and several laps around the boat he was pretty tuckered out.
About that pain issue. When the first hook pulled I started dropping the outrigger back maybe 30 feet when the real went off in my hand. Allowing for boat travel and distance between the two baits he was hooked for almost 100 feet on the first bait. I’m confident he would not have hit the second bait if his mouth hurt
THAT is one awesome fish! Laughed out loud at your comment about not believing it was your fish when it first broke the surface. First sail I ever hooked up broke the surface on the opposite side of the boat. With a fair number of other boats around I thought, "...some a--hole has hooked up a fish in the middle of MY fight."
Outoftheloop
4 Month Tourney ? Which one is that? Is it a Meat or Per fish Tourney,Better than a Great Job !Now I know where Our Big fish are !
Went from Too Cold to Too Hot !They moved around Us Here!
Wiley
Missed Ya at the Grove Slam !!Got there LATE ! THT Fishing Team ! I may be able to help w/That.
Wiley & OutOfheTLoop Give Me a e-mail feeding@frenzie.com
Scream'n Reels'
Location: Quebec, Canada and Pirates Cove, OBX, NC
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Here's a nice Bull we caught this weekend.
Thumbs down
It is all a trick . . . he caught the fish south of the equator . . . he really has his thumb up . . . its like the wheels turning backwards on TV when John Wayne is on the stage coach and the horses are running NICE FISH
Here's a nice Bull we caught this weekend. 
Well we can only control our boat.
You got to do it! But my I suggest you aim just a little lower the first year 
Allowing for boat travel and distance between the two baits he was hooked for almost 100 feet on the first bait. I’m confident he would not have hit the second bait if his mouth hurt 
Everything I have would be pointing up after a fish like that! 
