Hit a 25# last nite at 1 AM at ******* ***** on a recently deceased eel just as the tide turned - and it was the only hit I got all nite.
Nearly lost it too - took off like a bat outta hell and headed due south for the ONLY pot buoy in the entire area and yup, wrapped right around it.
EXACTLY the way I lost another similar sized fish a month ago
Tried waiting her out, loosened the drag to give her line and hopefully get off the buoy - no luck.
So I finally screwed down the drag, pulled the line as tight as I could without breaking off and started twanging it like a guitar string - ya know, I've heard about that for years but never tried it - and it worked. The bass moved away from the pot buoy and I got it in.
I had planned to release it but it was so exhausted it would've just ended up as crab food - I don't think it would have survived what turned out to be a fifteen minute tussle and the Gami was so deep I couldn't even see it.
So it's bass on the grill tonite, I guess - not that that's a bad thing
- if it will stop raining.
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