Went out with spencer, whom I am mention in the post I am waiting for pics on still, and started pretty slow. We got out to the beach at the top of the outgoing tide, and couldn?t make bait for quite a bit. As the tide started to get out pretty good we started catching several small pompano and then the whiting brigade came so we had bait.
I kayaked out my first line with a nice whiting hooked perfectly. After about 10 minutes my spinfisher goes off slowly, and then stops. Still lots of weight on the end, so I try to undo my weight? doesn?t budge. Ended up popping off my line when putting the drag in full and pulling up pretty good? maybe a monster ray? Oh well.
Spencer gets his whiting out and has something toy with it but doesn?t commit. We end up checking his bait and kayaking my spinfisher back out with a raunchy old ray chunk that has soaked at least 20 hours already and refrozen 3-4 times. Around 1030pm my spinfisher goes off and is off in a hurry. I turn up the drag to set the hook and normally on my spinfisher 10500 and 50-100lb jigging rod a blacktip will become almost non existent. I reeled in 2 5-6#8242;ers questioning if something was still on there? Well in this case that hook set only made the shark head for the next continent. Line was peeling off really quickly and took me down to the edge of the inside line indicator, at least 300 yards of 80lb line. I am a bit nervous since my line popped before and I didn?t think I was pushing it too hard so I keep the drag around 25-35lbs a good part of the fight, never quite fully locking down.
At this point we have some tourists watching who happened to be a good break since they had cameras and we didn?t! We get the shark to the surf and see the fins and I instantly see its a lemon? just as I think that she takes off for another run of 150+ yards. This continues on for ~45 minutes and we finally land her thanks to the help of Spencer and Olivia.
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