Let me start this by telling a story and asking for some advice. 8/17 we went out and caught 2 wahoo but got cut off 9 times. I was running about 12 inches of wire to 80lb fluorocarbon. Lost all islanders I owned and went home livid. Determined not to let this happen again I increased wire to about 4 ft. I pretty sure this was my down fall.
We left the dock at 3:30 from MI determined to have lines in the water by sunrise. Had two first timers on the boat who I really wanted to show a good time. We went out a little too late on Sunday night and didn’t make it to bed before we left so I claimed my bean bag to get a quick nap in before it was go time.
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We had lines in the water by 6:30 and we off. It was be far the calmest day I had ever been out on the water.
I knew the wire was too much but couldn’t get last Monday out of my head. Didn’t see any bait or rips anywhere. Finally at about 8 we went over some live bottom and had a small Hoo hit a plug about 8 ft behind the boat. Rookie stepped up and made quick work of a 20lber.
About 30 minutes later I decided to quick being semi-harder headed and cut the wire down to about 2 ft. I battled all day to cut it to 8 inches or so but never did. At about 10 we had the long rigger scream, then go dead. I was pissed we lost a big one. So I get on it and just real as hard as I could out of frustration. Out of no where it screams again dumping about 300 yards on line. I knew we had a good one for sure now. Put the second rookie on the rod and to his credit he reeled harder that anyone I had ever seen. About 45 minutes later the fight was over. Victory was ours.
