Buddy met me at house at 5.30, on the water at 6.
Short version - 0- 6, just today, on the mystery big fish.
long version
Had my big fish rig, Jigging rod, 80# braid, 50# mono, 3.5" spoon ready to go. I know this sounds stupid but i literally couldn’t sleep as i was trying to figure out what I could do to get one of these mystery fish on board, hell, i would probably give up the tip of my left pinkie (with anesthetic) just to see what the f’ ing thing is. So, my plan was to have my buddy on the rod, assuming we could get a hit, and i would manage the boat.
Have the heavy rig out (see previous pic) with a 2 oz torpedo and a reg spanish rig. Follow the sunken N jetty out, hit the super shallow spot, 3.5 ', and the heavy rig goes off and i think we have caught up on the rocks, but no, its a fish…presumably, at this point it could be a Navy diver in a super secret underwater jet ski f’ing with me. My bud has the rod, Im backing down on the fish, same as before a couple of long runs, get it in close, almost under the boat, start pulling it up and guess what, the lure comes back. Im kicking myself as i thought if we were lucky enough to hook up on this rig we would get it in.
Dropped the lure back in, within 2 mins same thing happened. So, obviously the hook is pulling loose, so my thinking was to try and set the hook better, 15 mins later i get a chance to try my cunning plan.Spool starts spinning, pick up rod, tighten drag, and kinda heave into the fish. The result was less than successful in that the 50# leader immediately broke. So, i saved 10 minutes attempting to pull the fish to the boat and loosing it, but lost the $16 spoon.
Same thing happened another 3 times, i **** you not, 3 times! If anyone wants to give it a shot follow the sunken N jetty out, it gets super shallow and there was a crab pot buoy right where we got the hits. Good luck, i will be saying a prayer for y’all tonight, i just WANT TO KNOW WHAT THESE FISH ARE! sorry, rant over.
Put the reg spanish gear on and caught maybe 6, not
