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I took my oldest son who was around 10 at the time out to N. Monomoy on the water taxi. I had been out there 4-5 times already and was geared up w/ the flyrod. I set my son up w/ a freshwater bass rod with 10lb test or so and a carolina rig with circle hooks and dead sand eels. We fished the drop off on the southeast tip as it was cloudy and got some schoolies. The sun popped out and the tide was dropping so we headed onto the flats between n. and s. Monomoy. A pod of around 7-8 nice fish passed and we both got off a cast, nada. I got off another cast and heard him say he saw fish behind us. I was like ya ya while trying to gat one more shot. Then he goes "I got one!" I turn and see ~25lb. striper shakingit's head like a pit bull with arabbit in it's mouth. The reel starts screaming and rod is cranked over. the only choice we had was to just keep walking towards the fish. At one point he tries to give me the rod but i wasn't taking any responsibility at this point. I look at the reel and saw spool and around 5 turns of mono. We basically walked hundreds of yards to the fish and I just walked behind it slowly and grabbed the tail. W got a great pic of him barely being able to lift the fish and realeasd it I measured it against rod and it was 39-40". A hell of a fish on that tackle.
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