19 Sept Solo - Finally a screamer! The stripe is off!
Been skunked for a couple of weekends now. It has been slow, likely because of the water temps. Decided to give it a shot again yesterday, anticipating the rush of a drag pulling surf monster. Got to my AO around 4:30 PM. Tide has transitioned to low. Brought two combos with me. Threw a mack head and a mack tail. My offshore tuna casting rod with the mack tail kept getting hits. About an hour later, I checked it and the tail was pretty much just skin and bones. Decided to try half a fillet of the center body of a mack and threw it out. After a about 20 minutes, something finally inhaled the fillet and took off like a freight train. Kept adjusting the drag as the monster just kept dumping line fast. At almost full drag I finally slowed it down. Then the battle begun. That offshore PE3-6 tuna casting rod was at uber bendo. Friggin awesome rod, so easy on the body compared to my Daiwa Sealine. As I was taking line back, I could feel the monster giving some burst of strong pulls. Trying to take it easy as I was afraid my 50LB copolymer topshot might reach its breaking point. At the same time I kept keeping an eye on my other rod hooked to the mack head that's still soaking. Last thing I wanted was for another surf monster to take the bait, and I'll be in trouble! Finally I got the nice batray to the beach. That batray was fat and heavy! Unhooked and released it! The sun was setting, decided to pack up and call it quits. Stoked to finally get the stripe off my back.
Video of the bat fight! https://youtu.be/kal0N2UOV4U
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Thick!!
Originally Posted by bones
