Well the good news is my leg did not fall off from getting bit by the seal. However I might of gained some seal super powers. If I was not part seal else would I be able to sniff out a fish this massive.
I set out on a recon mission last weekend to look for some Ghost's I searched through the zone's all morning and had 1 short bite on the mac. A pretty darn slow day as I was searching around looking for the right kind I finally see the some solid worm marks on my HDS there were fish from 20' all the way down to the bottom. I had all my basic's covered one rod high one in the middle and on bottom. At this point I knew I was going to get bit I re baited my bottom rig and put it in the rod holder. My rod loads up and I wind down on the fish in the rod holder and this sucker just starts dusting me no clicker on this rod as the fish decides to hit my Freshwater Swimbait setup a Calcutta 300D and a Pheonix 909H with 40lb Izor and very little 50lb braid. As I was getting smoked I couldnt get my damn rod out of the holder since this thing was hauling ass it felt like I hooked a submarine. By the time I finally get my rod out of the holder I probably had 20 wraps of braid left on the spool. It was time to put my flippers to work I pedle my butt off to chase down the fish to try to gain my line back. About 20 min into the battle I gained less than half a spool of line back everytime I gain the fish decides to go on a rampage and peel all of the line back off. At this point I am thinking to myself "What the heck do I have hooked?" no head shakes so no way its a seabass and seabass does not fight this hard. This bad boy had brute strength and and almost spooled me 3 times. By this time I had a couple spectators I had a huge sport fisher named Dan something and another boat cheering me on. 30 or so minutes later I start eliminating the species this is definitely not a Bat Ray, it has way to much power speed and torque to me a BSB, its not a seabass, its May I do not know if there are many yellowtail in this zone WTF. I continue to chase this sucker down when I was on its tail the fish would hear me pedaling so it would take off again. I had to stop peddling and just work the fish slowly to the yak, almost an hour into it i look down and finally see a flash and the fish came to color my line was wrapped up with my other line so I started short pumping this beast to the surface and stick her with the trusty bamboo gaff. I yell out as loud as I could "HELL YEA!!!!" after seeing how massive this beast was.
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This fish taped out at 47 1/2" it weight just shy of 40lbs bled. If it was not bled it would of went 40+ easy and would of beat my PB yellowtail thank you Kap Dan and Stephen for the pic and the cold beer. I am still smiling ear to ear and this fish came right in time for my memorial day weekend party.
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