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Old 02-04-2017, 09:48 PM   #1
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100 pound seabass...

...safely released.

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Old 02-04-2017, 10:32 PM   #2
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It's that time of year...nice release. Thanks for sharing
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Old 02-05-2017, 04:57 AM   #3
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what a work out, great release
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Old 02-05-2017, 07:20 AM   #4
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Chill video especially with the dolphins. Nice release of him. How'd you guess the weight?

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Old 02-05-2017, 07:46 AM   #5
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Chill video especially with the dolphins. Nice release of him. How'd you guess the weight?

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Great video, but I think I will re-estimate the BSB I caught a few months ago. I estimated 40-50 lbs, but looking at yours.......maybe I'll bump it up a notch. It felt like 200 lbs bringing it up.
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Old 02-05-2017, 07:47 AM   #6
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Old 02-05-2017, 08:19 AM   #7
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It took me a couple days to recover from the 2 I released last Tuesday, totally noodle armed. First one felt like a bus and was around 100ish, second fooled me as it was faster, took more line and did not feel like I was hooked to a bus, around 60 pounder. That was the first 2 baits dropped to the bottom then the sea lions were all that wanted every bait after.
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Old 02-05-2017, 08:24 AM   #8
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Ya guys I don't know that it was 100 obviously, but my leader was 4' and it was about a foot longer than that. Took about 15 minutes to land... which is really long for me. But def not as big as some others I've caught , and it still has spots. Maybe GoPro superview makes it look small haha the title was mostly trolling
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Old 02-05-2017, 10:37 AM   #9
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Doesn't look an ounce over 98# to me
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Old 02-05-2017, 11:03 AM   #10
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That is awesome Chris. Congrats on the nice catch and especially the successful release. I love the backbone those Tiger Ugly Sticks have and at such a ridiculous low price. Thanks for sharing the video.
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Old 02-05-2017, 12:24 PM   #11
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Excellent footage Chris!
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Old 02-05-2017, 03:08 PM   #12
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That is awesome Chris. Congrats on the nice catch and especially the successful release. I love the backbone those Tiger Ugly Sticks have and at such a ridiculous low price. Thanks for sharing the video.
Ya totally. Plenty of rods that cost 5 times as much cant put down as much power. Again, I'm not trying to say ugly stiks and TLDs are ideal by any means... but they do seem to work ok

And that reminds me of a very important point, for anyone who might be wondering. The clean release of the big black begins DURING THE FIGHT. 2 key factors made this fish so easy to release. She swam back down after about 2 or 3 minutes.

1. The second you get it off the bottom, you horse it up as hard and and fast as you can. They sit on the bottom forever and just run and run and are unstoppable. But as soon as you got on top of them and see them on the meter, you have to go full gas. The greener they are when you get them up, the faster they swim down. Don't exhaust her with an hour long fight. You know its a black after about 2 minutes. Either go full drag, or thumb it and try to break it off. (just dont burn your thumbs, or drags for that matter)

2. Once its up to like 30-40' (you are watching your sonar as you fight fish, right?) back off the pressure big time. They will float up from there. Its important to let them come up slow for the last 30 feet, as the gas inside their bodies is massively expanding. If you horse them all the way to the surface they will barf their guts inside out. If you can get them up to 60', usually the fight is over. Let them just chill and burp their way up from there, kinda like Charlie and the fizzy lifting drinks!

Same goes for whites, if you ever find yourself releasing those...
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That is awesome Chris. Congrats on the nice catch and especially the successful release. I love the backbone those Tiger Ugly Sticks have and at such a ridiculous low price. Thanks for sharing the video.
Try the GX2's, Ugly Sticks with a lot of durability, and a reasonable price.

Nice BSB, they can really tire you out.
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Thanks for the awesome tips Chris on how to bring one up, so as to make it easy to do a successful release. That is super advise.
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Cool video....I had 15 or so incounters with them whether catching or diving with them some 500lbs not one was hurt...I saw a family of 8 scuba diving at Italian gardens Catalina.another time one about 300 lbs swam by me with a fishing line attached I grabbed the fishing line for a brief moment and gave it a little tug....his head moved alittle before I let the line go.
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And that reminds me of a very important point, for anyone who might be wondering. The clean release of the big black begins DURING THE FIGHT. 2 key factors made this fish so easy to release. She swam back down after about 2 or 3 minutes...Same goes for whites, if you ever find yourself releasing those...
Excellent advice. Thanks for sharing!
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Old 02-09-2017, 02:36 AM   #17
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Ya Chris good information.....

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Ya totally. Plenty of rods that cost 5 times as much cant put down as much power. Again, I'm not trying to say ugly stiks and TLDs are ideal by any means... but they do seem to work ok

And that reminds me of a very important point, for anyone who might be wondering. The clean release of the big black begins DURING THE FIGHT. 2 key factors made this fish so easy to release. She swam back down after about 2 or 3 minutes.

1. The second you get it off the bottom, you horse it up as hard and and fast as you can. They sit on the bottom forever and just run and run and are unstoppable. But as soon as you got on top of them and see them on the meter, you have to go full gas. The greener they are when you get them up, the faster they swim down. Don't exhaust her with an hour long fight. You know its a black after about 2 minutes. Either go full drag, or thumb it and try to break it off. (just dont burn your thumbs, or drags for that matter)

2. Once its up to like 30-40' (you are watching your sonar as you fight fish, right?) back off the pressure big time. They will float up from there. Its important to let them come up slow for the last 30 feet, as the gas inside their bodies is massively expanding. If you horse them all the way to the surface they will barf their guts inside out. If you can get them up to 60', usually the fight is over. Let them just chill and burp their way up from there, kinda like Charlie and the fizzy lifting drinks!

Same goes for whites, if you ever find yourself releasing those...
It makes me mad every time I think about the time I followed a guy hooked up to a big BSB this thing was huge at least 300 lbs in la jolla.I was going to help him.but he just left it belly up and paddled away and left me and his fish I tried to get it to go down after a 1/2 hour a fog. Bank came in and I could not see land or other kayaks and no GPS so I those to leave the fish to this day I don't no if the fish made it between the both of us we might have got it to go down. It pissed me off the guy didn't even try to resuscitate the fish
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