Spring action in the Harbour Trevs and Surgeons 20-10-2008
Finally got back to fishing today in the harbour and boy was it good!
Me and drkcld were going for surgeons today, you know the kingfish sized surgeons. I came prepared with a 15-24kg rod, penn overhead GLS 25 reel, 50lb braid with 20lb fluoro trace and some heavy duty strong hooks i found, not the best but still strong.
Drkcld's rod went off first, he was using 30lb braid on a 6000 reel and couldnt stop this train like surgeon! i think he hooked up a really big one, i yelled "lock the drag!" he replies "i did!" haha yeh couldnt stop it and cut him off.
Then it was my turn, i hooked up a decent on estimating in its 45 to 50cm, i hooked it on my strong rod and i thought i almost had it cause the fight lasted much longer than the other ones we usually get, it swam out then back in, the worst thing that happened to me was it pulled the overhead reel off my reel seat on my rod!!!!!!! tension was lost, but it was still there, then it threw the hook. Reeled it back in to see my hook got pulled also. I was that close to getting it in! nearly on the surface too!
Anyways they were still there the rest of the day, had a few more hook ups but the hook kept coming off, maybe its because i kept lock dragging it and it doesn't set probably. We then started getting big trevallies in the process of catching surgeons.
Bagged 7 decent trevallies today, one that beat my pb going at 44cm! so fat!
Like Timpon i landed these in 2 seconds lol and lost many more trevs probably hooked up 20 trevs today.
Me and drkcld were going for surgeons today, you know the kingfish sized surgeons. I came prepared with a 15-24kg rod, penn overhead GLS 25 reel, 50lb braid with 20lb fluoro trace and some heavy duty strong hooks i found, not the best but still strong.
Drkcld's rod went off first, he was using 30lb braid on a 6000 reel and couldnt stop this train like surgeon! i think he hooked up a really big one, i yelled "lock the drag!" he replies "i did!" haha yeh couldnt stop it and cut him off.
Then it was my turn, i hooked up a decent on estimating in its 45 to 50cm, i hooked it on my strong rod and i thought i almost had it cause the fight lasted much longer than the other ones we usually get, it swam out then back in, the worst thing that happened to me was it pulled the overhead reel off my reel seat on my rod!!!!!!! tension was lost, but it was still there, then it threw the hook. Reeled it back in to see my hook got pulled also. I was that close to getting it in! nearly on the surface too!
Anyways they were still there the rest of the day, had a few more hook ups but the hook kept coming off, maybe its because i kept lock dragging it and it doesn't set probably. We then started getting big trevallies in the process of catching surgeons.
Bagged 7 decent trevallies today, one that beat my pb going at 44cm! so fat!
Like Timpon i landed these in 2 seconds lol and lost many more trevs probably hooked up 20 trevs today.
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