Tom Kirkman
Registered: March 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,567
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Outstanding catch on such a light rod. Well done.
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Bill Stevens
Registered: April 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Posts: 712
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Hmmm! Catching that fish on such a light rod with four pound test line in that time is quite a feat! Could it be that you did not let us see a close up of the fish so we could not see the bullet hole from the 30 - 06? When we get a fish like that on a bay boat we have to run it down with the trooling motor. If you caught it from the deck of the boat or pier in the picture you did one whale of a job!
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Ted Morgan
Registered: March 2005
Location: Townsville, Australia
Posts: 125
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Thank you Tom. The original SJ6400 lost 3 inches off the butt, then was extended to 6'2". The extension is the removable handle. It now has lots more lower section power, more than I thought I'd get when I did the work. Bill, it was taken landbased from a rock wall. I hooked it from the pier deck, but had to rockhop and chase it 50 m further down the wall before I could even get the braided line back on the reel. After that it was just tug of war with the braid: slugging it out at max pressure. Felt longer than the 12 minutes: you know how fights always seem longer. The fellows fishing next to me when I hooked up told me it was only 12 minutes.
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Stan Gregory
Registered: July 2005
Location: Coastal NC
Posts: 163
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Catching a real nice fighting fish on light tackle and light line is major fun. Congratulation!!! It's nice to be run up the beach, trying to get a fish in - not a common experience for me.
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Ted Morgan
Registered: March 2005
Location: Townsville, Australia
Posts: 125
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Thanks Stan. No beach, the rock wall is the retaining wall for a large public saltwater swimming pool. All big boulders right around. That's what made chasing the fish down so difficult.
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Ted Morgan
Registered: March 2005
Location: Townsville, Australia
Posts: 125
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My all time favourite way of fishing. Light lures, light line, light tackle. Puts your skills to the test, but you wade through heaps of line and lures. Also separates the men from the boys in the reels.
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Robert Robertson
Registered: May 2006
Location: Hiram, OH (USA)
Posts: 9
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Tue September 5, 2006 1:21pm
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Very cool fish, rod and story. Twelve anxious minutes of balancing that fish on such fine line does, indeed sound like a good way to exercise!
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