Went to St. Francis today, Roland and Mrs. Roland were to meet up with my dad and myself. Roland overslept and eventually made it at 9o'clock
Anyway, the east wind discouloured the water nicely and added a nip to it.. REG we're gonna catch fish today!
I slide a yellowtail head and my dad a huge mackerel head... His rod starts bouncing, looks like a gurnard is getting a good meal out of that head. Takes his rod out and mine goes... VAS! a dead weight, ag you sommer know its a baby hound thats tangled in your trace...
Off with its head and onto a 20/0 eagle claw circle... Seeing as I cant find any 1.5mm cable in JBay, I took 3 metres of 200lb carbon coated, cut it in half and tied 2 loose ends to my slide swivel. Folded the other 2 ends through the hook's eye and plaited it back to the top. Melted all the coating and I had myself a 800lb slide trace
what you guys think?
Slid that bloody mess out and left it for the rest of the day
Roland finally arrived and put out a lovely shad head with the fillet wrapped back up over the head...
Much later on, after a lot of nothing at 5 minute intervals, my dads rod goes. ZZZZZZZZ stop. ZZZZ wind VAS slack ??????? windy windy VAAAASSS and there it goes... AAAAH *&$%^ another back ray I thought... After a little while my dad hands me the rod, just to get a feel for this pylie before it neuks us up.
It was at this point I realised it deffinitely was not a flat fish, it was a shark. It would take a big run and stop, i'd turn its head and it came. And then it would make another run, slightly shorter and I'd gain a little bit more line than the previous time. This pattern continued throughout the fight. All the lads got a turn on the rod, and the fish settled about 200m out, going left to right....
My dad was on the rod, the fish was heading for the point and suddenly stopped dead... BUMP!... nothing, fish gone. AG BL!KS@M did my wind-on leader fail? NOPE the fish got eaten! leader came back 2m shorter than it was...
and then the rain came and wet us properly. So we went home
My dad was using the Alpha Seagrand H.P. rod, a daiwa sl50 with carbontex and grandwave handle and 0.50 Expert Super DP line
What you guys reckon, was it a sharpnose bronzie that we hooked or a bronze whaler? Its the first time I've been on with such a big shark thats not a raggie, so I'm unsure...
There's only one thing that coulda eaten it
st francis.AVI my dad jokingly put the perlie gloves on cos he was gonna get an on with that bait
