Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Out of Delaware this morning with both kids on board.... quite a stiff noreasterly made everything difficult.... swinging round on anckor constant tangles. Fishing was slow to be fair tho the girl got a panni snapper and the boy a double hook up on the southern sail fish that made him work on his soft bait rod.
Eventually the wind dropped and I bugged out to a new spot and depth.



Lots of mackeral.... slimy? Certainly the slimyest fin fish I have come across and kahawai.
I did entertain the idea of liveying one for hopefully a JD but I had nothing rigged and it's a full time job just untangling and rebaiting lines.
Inbetween sorting balls ups I managed a few flicks of a wee squid lure I had got a while back but never caught anything on...got a few mackys and gurnard and then something with weight.....

It was just a heavy weight for a start....no head shakes or runs just a solid pull and slow loss of line.
Could it be a shark? Unlike a shark to take a lure I thought and then after about 30 seconds it realised it was hooked and all hell broke loose!
Oh shit this is a kingy and I'm on 10 pound and tiny tiny hooks not far from reef with two straylines out two ledger rigs out a burly pot near the bottom and the Ankor rope! Shit just got real.
Kids wind that in! Wind this in! Wind that in!
I was lucky it ran for the reef and not the plethora of lines surrounding my boat.
I gave it a touch more drag as the last of my 10p braid dissapeard for the horizon and I was on the backing mono.
Thankfully it turned and I managed to get back maybe 40 meters of braid an she was off again! I could see the gold bottom of the spool again by the time it stopped and I could get some line back.
Kids had their lines up and were working on the two straylines and burly pot while I was working on getting some line back!

More blistering runs but getting shorter each time and I can see I am starting to win this battle and as long as I don't pull the hooks and she doesn't tangle me on the burly or Ankor lines I might might just land this fish....epic battle for more than 5 min and the boy managed to get the head end in the net and I grabbed the tail and in she come.
Over a meter length, 18.5p so not a donkey but an epic battle on softbait gear and tiny hooks with all those lines out and close reef.








A few more kahawai gurnard and panni snapper but basically I was waiting for tide to get back in.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Out of Delaware this morning with both kids on board.... quite a stiff noreasterly made everything difficult.... swinging round on anckor constant tangles. Fishing was slow to be fair tho the girl got a panni snapper and the boy a double hook up on the southern sail fish that made him work on his soft bait rod.
Eventually the wind dropped and I bugged out to a new spot and depth.



Lots of mackeral.... slimy? Certainly the slimyest fin fish I have come across and kahawai.
I did entertain the idea of liveying one for hopefully a JD but I had nothing rigged and it's a full time job just untangling and rebaiting lines.
Inbetween sorting balls ups I managed a few flicks of a wee squid lure I had got a while back but never caught anything on...got a few mackys and gurnard and then something with weight.....

It was just a heavy weight for a start....no head shakes or runs just a solid pull and slow loss of line.
Could it be a shark? Unlike a shark to take a lure I thought and then after about 30 seconds it realised it was hooked and all hell broke loose!
Oh shit this is a kingy and I'm on 10 pound and tiny tiny hooks not far from reef with two straylines out two ledger rigs out a burly pot near the bottom and the Ankor rope! Shit just got real.
Kids wind that in! Wind this in! Wind that in!
I was lucky it ran for the reef and not the plethora of lines surrounding my boat.
I gave it a touch more drag as the last of my 10p braid dissapeard for the horizon and I was on the backing mono.
Thankfully it turned and I managed to get back maybe 40 meters of braid an she was off again! I could see the gold bottom of the spool again by the time it stopped and I could get some line back.
Kids had their lines up and were working on the two straylines and burly pot while I was working on getting some line back!

More blistering runs but getting shorter each time and I can see I am starting to win this battle and as long as I don't pull the hooks and she doesn't tangle me on the burly or Ankor lines I might might just land this fish....epic battle for more than 5 min and the boy managed to get the head end in the net and I grabbed the tail and in she come.
Over a meter length, 18.5p so not a donkey but an epic battle on softbait gear and tiny hooks with all those lines out and close reef.








A few more kahawai gurnard and panni snapper but basically I was waiting for tide to get back in.

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Awesome VC. Well done. They are great fun eh.