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Patman (7/10/2008)
The feel of a big snook on a medium action spinning rod after nailing a chartreuse long a magnum bomber.
I have hooked big snook and they are extremely powerful. I the largest I have ever hooked was in the everglades he jumped twice and went to visit his buddys in the mangroves. My buddy and I guessed him around 30, but he pulled like he was 300. You ever caught a real big one?
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Trigger
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| Its hard to compare as pound for pound some of the smaller fish can go well,kind of makes you wonder what it would be like at 200 or 500 lbs. Like Jacks/AJ's, I think a 500lb one of either would put me in hospital or just bust me up so as i would never even see it. Swordfish are awesome but they are big too. Barramundi are like snook (also nice to catch) on crack but not that big compared to swords. I also hate to think of a 200lb barra. A shellcracker or bluegill would be killer at 10lbs and at 100 stunning. Personal most memorable fight was a Red Steenbras about 110 lbs on 20# mono. They also get big enough to eat people, not by mistake, they seem to like doing it. The Birkenhead in WW2 that was torpedoed and went down lost a few hundred folks to a pack of them on the Aghulas reef.
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40# Flathead Catfish, at night, hauling his azz out of a tree top in 50' of rippen river current. That to me is like nothing else in the world.
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Trigger
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I have hooked big snook and they are extremely powerful. I the largest I have ever hooked was in the everglades he jumped twice and went to visit his buddys in the mangroves. My buddy and I guessed him around 30, but he pulled like he was 300. You ever caught a real big one?
Garbo,
We drove down to the jettys at Ft. Pierce one night in "hot pursuit" of Mr. Snook. By midnight all of the locals had given up and gone home, but around 2:00 a.m. near the end of the outgoing tide they turned on. In an hour and a half I caught and released 12 snook up to 18 pounds, one nice cuda and also lost 2 tarpon. My chartreuse long a magnum bomber needed to go to glamour shots to be restored.
You just don't forget trips like that.
websters definition:
snook - largemouth bass on angel dust
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Patman (7/10/2008)
I have hooked big snook and they are extremely powerful. I the largest I have ever hooked was in the everglades he jumped twice and went to visit his buddys in the mangroves. My buddy and I guessed him around 30, but he pulled like he was 300. You ever caught a real big one?
Garbo,
We drove down to the jettys at Ft. Pierce one night in "hot pursuit" of Mr. Snook. By midnight all of the locals had given up and gone home, but around 2:00 a.m. near the end of the outgoing tide they turned on. In an hour and a half I caught and released 12 snook up to 18 pounds, one nice cuda and also lost 2 tarpon. My chartreuse long a magnum bomber needed to go to glamour shots to be restored.
You just don't forget trips like that.
websters definition:
snook - largemouth bass on angel dust
Shoot, small Snook are extremely powerful, Big ones are more than just powerful, they do what they want to. Any fish that has the power to jump and make you mess up your pants at the same time is something more than just powerful....
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