13+ hammer at Lakeworth pier

I understand it was my fault because I did not bring the camara ..... I was going to take it to the beach but the pier master right beside me hahaha I could not do anything but that's alright it won't be the first one, it won't be the last one.I apologize any way it wasn't a real monster like 15+

A truck! tell me the whole story so I can laugh with you bro....

I did hear he was 2000lbs and ate 10 ft baits.....

I heard of a monster hammer draging a truck backwards down a boat launch ramp before. Apparently they were trying to drag it out of the water and the shark decided to swim away draging the truck that was in gear, backwards.

That really makes you think on what's out there

It was so wacky ass dude with one leg said in the 70s he hooked him out by the skyway with 9000 pound wich and got spooled and it pulled the truck in. Oh yeah he said he was using cow liver as bait

Not a truck slayer lmfao

lmfao!!!

Beginners luck.......little turd..

lmfao

I dont now how I missed this report.

But congrats on that awesome giant hammer.

50w did I see that Oh I love it, thank you jonathanbryan for that.

50W AWESOME!!!!!!

I dont now how I missed this report.

But congrats on that awesome giant hammer.

50w did I see that Oh I love it, thank you jonathanbryan for that.

50W AWESOME!!!!!!

That's a properly serviced 50w with some tweaks. Proven to work well , even for monster hammer like that.

I dont now how I missed this report.

But congrats on that awesome giant hammer.

50w did I see that Oh I love it, thank you jonathanbryan for that.

50W AWESOME!!!!!!

That's a properly serviced 50w with some tweaks. Proven to work well , even for monster hammer like that.

I cant help myself it just seems I have been a part of to many discussions where I have been told things like a 12 foot hammer is going to smoke any 50w or its impossible to catch a 12 foot hammer on a 50w. I am just happy that a 50w has been thrown in the mix for BIG sharks and come out on top I mean no disrespect to the guys that said it cant be done. I am sure with the more people fishing new age 50W this wont be the last report of monsters on 50Ws.

Remember that pier in that one place a half a century ago? You don't! Oh that's right some fisherman tied 1,000,000,000lb test mono-filament to it and put out old Moe and old Hitler out for bait and the next day everyone came to fish the pier and saw it mysteriously being dragged into the ocean. To this day there are reports from submarines of a huge hammerhead shark dragging around a big pier... The legend of Old Bob lives on!

I dont now how I missed this report.

But congrats on that awesome giant hammer.

50w did I see that Oh I love it, thank you jonathanbryan for that.

50W AWESOME!!!!!!

That's a properly serviced 50w with some tweaks. Proven to work well , even for monster hammer like that.

I cant help myself it just seems I have been a part of to many discussions where I have been told things like a 12 foot hammer is going to smoke any 50w or its impossible to catch a 12 foot hammer on a 50w. I am just happy that a 50w has been thrown in the mix for BIG sharks and come out on top I mean no disrespect to the guys that said it cant be done. I am sure with the more people fishing new age 50W this wont be the last report of monsters on 50Ws.

The success is in the details. Usually when they refer to a 50w they may refer to a reel that can handle at full spool around 25lb-30lb drag, but when you get 55lb-65lb out of an 50w at full spool, that's a hole new class right there. An 8ft-8.5ft hammerhead was caught from same location while BHC was still on. The fish had a maxim run of 150yds at 50lb drag and 20-25min later was right next to the piers pilings for a photo session. Around same length of shark couple hours later snapped the braided line at the tip of the rod (no knot), which means that not always playing at high drag will give you success with braided line. The speed of the fish plays a huge role on how much tension overall the fish generates.
Jonathan has good karma when comes to landing big fish, maybe that's the reason why he came second place on overall the biggest fish caught in BHC tournament.

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The success is in the details. Usually when they refer to a 50w they may refer to a reel that can handle at full spool around 25lb-30lb drag, but when you get 55lb-65lb out of an 50w at full spool, that's a hole new class right there. An 8ft-8.5ft hammerhead was caught from same location while BHC was still on. The fish had a maxim run of 150yds at 50lb drag and 20-25min later was right next to the piers pilings for a photo session. Around same length of shark couple hours later snapped the braided line at the tip of the rod (no knot), which means that not always playing at high drag will give you success with braided line. The speed of the fish plays a huge role on how much tension overall the fish generates.

Im with ya Man!!! I fish old penn 50Ws that can barley get 30lbs with full spool and new Avets that can pull 60lbs at full spool. New age 50Ws spooled in 130+ lb combos can catch big, BIG fish.

Just like you said "The success is in the details" people with 50ws fishing straight 60-80lb mono and 25lbs of drag its just not going to happen, but people fishing 50s with 130 lb braid and mono top shots with the ability to use/ understand heavy drag, its on!!

I am a huge braid 50W believer, I fish lots of 130 and 200lb braid backed with shorter top shots in the 100-300 yards of 130 mono backed with long windons and heavy traces. here latley I have been going with 200lb JB hollow to 130 Izor first string 20-50 foot 200lb windons on a 80W... preset with a 58-60lb drag at full.