Some reels are not designed for a 300% overload.
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Wow! :o Gotta be some story behind that! Can't wait to hear it.
CLEAN UP on aisle 4!!!!!
Come on Uncle Lee, tell us the story!!!!!
That reel looks like a bunch on the boat that I work on. you tell them how to use their Thumb to stop a reel from doing that but they think their Thumb is only for sucking on.
That's not the first time I see a graphite crap, I mean reel blow up. Going to need more than a thumb to save that baby :-\.
Put it on ebay... someone will buy it ;)
Dom
Yea, he could add those plated gears as a package ;D
Looks like that stand ripped right off :o.
Wow!, that rod clamp really worked too good.
Quote from: Bucktail on April 15, 2013, 02:50:28 PM
Wow! :o Gotta be some story behind that! Can't wait to hear it.
Cow YFT and 150lb line, cow takes off, drag moved past strike and pow!!!!!! I was standing 5' away and got peppered with pieces, and it sounded like a rifle.
On the same trip I pinched a nut when my plate failed.
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QuoteOn the same trip I pinched a nut when my plate failed
Damn Lee! ... I sure hope that's not why there's blood on your leg :'(
Dom
The cow YFY that I bent the plate on got hurt worse than I did.
Now you're talking! 8)
Quote from: Keta on April 15, 2013, 05:19:38 PM
The cow YFY that I bent the plate on got hurt worse than I did.
That's what we like to hear!!!
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Nice fish, lots of sashimi
That'll fill a freezer quite nicely... great catch, Lee!
You don't wear the Hawaii Five-O shirts like Dominick? ... I hear they calm Tuna down when they hit the deck ;)
Nice fish,
Dom
Very nice fish lee. You get that on your Penn 100?? Way to go.
Bob
Nice catch! Congrats.
One of 5 over 200 but it was a long time ago.
Still a nice fish, congrats! ;)
Yup.
Here's my largest wahoo
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And my largest YFT
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And a bunch of wahoo in the snow
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AWESOME!!!
I really don't mind to blow up a reel for a catch like these ;-\
Nice fish Lee both the YFT and Wahoo. The Wahoo in the snow are a very nice size.
John
The trip before I lost 22 wahoo, this trip I didn't hook as many but I landed all but 2, several without wire and one on the kite. I started heading home with 15 wahoo but ended up with 8 after stopping at friends places.
Lee,
Holy cow, you lost 22 wahoo? Where do you fish the Atlantis Aquarium... now that's fishing!
I love me some wahoo dip and crackers ;)
PS- nice size to those "sled-hoos" too!
Thanks
Dom
Hurricane Bank (Shimada Seamount, check it out on Google Earth) and Clarion Island have a lot of wahoo. The big wahoo was caught NW of Mag Bay, BCS.
BINGO!!!!!
Lee, Wahoo is exactly what Dom & I are targeting on our scheduled 7 day Father's Day fishout in Los Cabo, BCS.
I'll be thankful to catch Wahoo half that size!!! In fact, I have never gaffed a Wahoo, had four on over the years, and four off before getting them to the boat. Not my idea of "Catch n' Release"!!!!
That looked like a great trip, what long range boat were you on???
Wayne
RRIII with Captain John Grabowski
Here's one of the ones we got on the Venice, LA trip.
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magic fish!