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| Submariner took me and another nugget aviator out for a quick trip today. Left out of Sherman Cove at 0600 with frozen cigs/squid/several dozen palm sized pinfish and high hopes of picking up our limit of snapper and making it back by 1400. The first couple of stops around 20 miles out produce nothing but we continued to bounce around until we finally got a few bites and decided to drop anchor. Perfect set first time. mingo in the box, followed by Ed's nice sized ARS, the bite was steady but being greedy I tossed out the flyline and within a few minutes Evan was fighting his first King, a small one with lots of heart. After that the flyline was silent for a while then goes "OFF, and I mean O-F-F", I picked it up with no chance of stopping whatever it was, it went straight down and fast, it was either HUGE or took me into the wreck. Broke that off and rerigged. A couple more snapper then the flyline goes off again, this time I was better prepared but came up with nothing. Rerigged and tossed a ruby red out, barely put it down and it was on again.....with the same outcome. I was gettin a little frustrated then hook up on the bottom rig and pull up the final red snapper rounding out our limit but as he was coming up I saw about a 5' (what I thought was a shark on his tail). We had 30 mins so I throw a shark rig on the TLD 30, with a ruby red, and tell Evan as soon as I hook up the pole was his. It took all of 1 min, slack slack slack, JACKED IT UP!!!! Handed off the pole and then step back and watch. Here's how the conversation went...... Me: "Ed it's your call, do you want to keep it, do you have anything to kill it with?" Ed: "UM sure I'll find something" Me: "Ok, here it comes, looks like about a 5 footer,,,:o SxxT,,,, THAT'S A COBIA, WHERE'S YOUR GAF, -PANIC, PANIC- (me trying to clear the deck, poles up front), Long story short. We lost a HUGE (90+) Cobia, boatside. Mostly due to my inexperience in landing a fish of this size, I have a hole new respect for those who can do it. We were close, so close. I lost two last year I estimated at 60#, but this one was HUGE. Tried dropping back down to him, and found a bunch of hungry (short) AJ's. Back home by 1400, and in time to take the wife to the Wharf, which we're not even going because of this storm. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY BOAT BACK!!!!
____________________________________________________________Jeremy Woodall "Reel Addiction" 21' Cape Horn
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| Man that is a shame losing a ling that size at the gaff. Was he too green to gaff? You never did mention whether he broke off or spit the hook. It would be interesting to know what was taking your freelined baits into the wreck. Ling won't do that. You can usully control them on the gear you were using. That is the problem sometimes. On stout gear they won't run and tire themselves out like they do on spinning gear. We caught one about 50 a couple of weeks ago and he just swam up to the boat and said gaff me. My fishing partner said lets go ahead and gaff him. I knew what was coming. The ling took the gaff right out of his hand. About 15 minutes later he came in with no problem. When they are green they are a handful.
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| What happen was he came up without to much of a fight, problem was the shark leader I had on was pretty long. Ed grabbed the leader and pulled him up a little closer, he shook and came unhooked. It was a good learning experience but I would have really liked to have seen how much he would have weighed. Not real sure what we could have done different. As far as the freeline, I will never know but I thought maybe a shark.
____________________________________________________________Jeremy Woodall "Reel Addiction" 21' Cape Horn
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| Nice report ..too bad bout the ling but I would imagine it was rather exciting still. Tell Ed I said hey havent talked to him in awhille. Mike
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
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I'm  for ya! Nice report.
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Matt, talked to Kenny this afternoon and my motor's compression is no good. Therefore, got to go back for another rebuild. NO IDEA, when I will get it back. Hopefully before I get transferred (4-5 months) but honestly I don't know how realalistic that is.
____________________________________________________________Jeremy Woodall "Reel Addiction" 21' Cape Horn
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