NPH 01-18-08 SPOOLED TWICE, 1ST SNGF
My son and I have been reading so much about all you guys catching some fish, we thought we'd go out and give it a shot. We got to NPH, about 6:20pm, and by 7:00pm, I was fighting my first fish. By 7:02pm, the fish was kicking my a**. By 7:03pm, dazed and confused with all my line peeling off, I wasn't sure what to do with the behemouth at the end of my 12# line, so I thought I'd apply a little pressure. By 7:04pm, the fish pulled out the big guns and took off on a run straight down the harbor. He managed to peel off all the line on my Calcutta 400. :explode:
After losing this fish, I grabbed my other rod with a Trinidad TN12 and freshly spooled with 20# Izorline, baited up and flung the bait out. By 7:45, my son was now onto a fish. He was using my second Shimano rod and Calcutta 400 (spooled with 10# line) and after a few short bursts, the fish succumbs and my son lands his first shovel nose guitar fish. I didn't have a tape or scale, so I don't know the weight, but my son was pretty stocked he caught something of decent size. :banana:
After rebaiting my sons line, we cast the bait back out and within 15 minutes, he was back on to another fish. This time, this fish swam like a bat ray out of hell, straight across the harbor until half our spool was gone and he stopped. He must of sat down on the bottom or something because it was like trying to reel in a log. After a few minutes of trying to horse him in, the line snapped. :bang: Oh well, my son had a kick out of hearing his line peel off for a few minutes. All in all, it was a nice night. Here are a couple pics. One pic shows the rod bendo, before I got spooled. The other pic, well, you can see.
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Originally Posted by Skyler
