Groper(pic) & Mother Surgeon

Starting fishing this morning other from the usual place. Turned up with nothing. Until sunrise, the fight started to come. My rod goes off first and the 24kg rod was bent to the max, it was the strongest fight i had with one of these,then got busted off on de pylon. Drkcld's trace pops for the next fish. Later on a school was under us. Then Drkcld goes to me "sh*t! the mother sawtail just swam out around your bait!"

It was a 70cm+ white sawtail that came out and as soon as drkcld said that, my rod goes off, and it pulled line out sooo fast. The fastest i ever seen. It took like 0.5 sec to snag me on the pylon. Completely dusted! I am so sure this is stronger than a 1 metre kingie.

Next Drkcld hooks this mother again and as soon as he applies pressure on the fish, the hook comes out. It turns out that it either BIT through the hook with its super sharp strong teeth OR it broke the hi-carbon hook underpressure, however it was just a 1 second tug.

I dont think anything gear can land this sort of fish. Its has all the anti fishermen properties. A specie that has evolved to survive through the toughest battles with anglers.

Oh and heres a nice groper drkcld caught as a by catch along with many other by catches. 38cm Brown groper.

All fish were released.