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Megan, Hunter, and I
hit the beach
late Saturday afternoon.
The weed was
pretty bad the
whole way down
to the thirties
but we decided
to try anyway.
Shortly after deploying
the first two
baits in the
rough surf, both
get absolutely hammered,
but no hookups.
Then the 4/0 takes off
again and we're hooked up.
Megan took the
rod and fought
her best until
the line became
snagged with the
6/0 and
I had to
take over bringing
the shark over
the bar. She
did all the
hard work and
was rewarded with
her best shark
to date, a
fat 5'10"
blacktip.
After tagging and releasing her shark,
she goes off
on a walk
and Hunter and
I watch the
rods with much
anticipation. Just as
I was telling
Hunter the weed
was taking his
line north, it
suddenly grew fins
and a tail
and exploded on
a few monster
runs. As he
was fighting his
mystery fish, my
daiwa goes screaming
and I'm
hooked up. About
ten seconds later,
my other 4/0 takes off
and we've
got a triple
header and we're down one
angler. As I'm doing my
best dealing with
two rods, my
4/0 seems
to go slack
so I got
to concentrate on
the daiwa. Just
as I can
see fins from
my fish, Hunters
shark breaks free
and keeps heading
to Cuba. I
get my fish
in for the
tag and release.
Another fat and
healthy blacktip, this
one just breaking
6 feet:
While I
am walking her
back in, the
4/0 takes
off again, but
this time she's hooked for
good. After a
good battle, I
pulled in this
nice bull, that
just barely broke
seven feet at
85".
Final tally was three landed with
three big misses.
What a great
afternoon of fishing,
lines in the
water for 3
hours, and three
great fish to
show for it.
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