School finally gave me a weekend where I could squeeze out a trip. Turned out to be a good one. Hit up our new favorite bait spot and got three massive cownose rays. This has been the recent bait of choice after using southerns all summer, the cownose have been getting slammed. Headed about an hour south and hit the beach. Chopped the rays down to a managable size and set them. I've noticed every bait I've put deep, I'm guessing 500 yards, has gotten hit for the last 4 trips. This pattern was good enough for me, so I stuck the Mustad 20/0 Demon is the biggest ray and I stuck it out far.
The 50W dropped short had a small run, but dropped. A couple minutes later, the deep 80 got bumped, I got up but figured it was a bird or something, then the rod took off. The pickup was a no doubter that is was a good fish with a larger bait.
NEVER GO GET A SANDWICH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFwRglDipjs
Let her eat for a good minute or so, because I didn't want the big hook to miss if it was a smaller fish. Well, it stuck and I was on to a hoss. Felt dead weight for the entire fight. Thought maybe it got taken into a crab trap, but it kept pulling. The rod was a Barrett custom that I thought was a little stiffer than I liked, but on a nice fish, it felt awesome.
Got it close and there was massive conch on my mainline, which explained the weird pressure on the line. We got the tail rope on her and and two of us tried to get it up out of the water, but it wouldn't budge. A big pregnant bull.
8'5"
Heavy fish
The 20/0 Demon was perfect in the corner of the mouth, it had wrapped around the jawbone, and I couldn't budge it. I didn't want the shark to die, especially a pregnant one, so after a minute of toying with the hook, I had to cut it 
It was great to see the fish swim away, even if it had some jewelry.
Maybe 15 minutes after that, my new orange 80W got obliterated, considering my 8'8" and fresh 8'5" bulls had taken minimal drag with my 80w, I knew this fish had to be a true monster. I set the reel to strike and it only made the fish go faster. It took a fast fast run for about 300-400 yards on locked down 80w, something that I hadn't experienced yet. The fish spit the hooks, which was awful, but felt awesome to feel the power. Will make me come back for more.
A bull from a trip a couple weeks ago
Very nice bulls! I need one like that. 
What kinda hook did you have on when you had the hook pull?
Just an average fisherman.
Good stuff. bro!
I am still waiting fot that locked down drag beach fish to happen... the uneasy adrenaline excitement has to feel awrsome when that happens.
5-600 yards of line off the 80 with it locked ... drag presure was probably over 70 lbs, AWESOME
Very nice bulls! I need one like that.
20/0 LP
beginning of the run on the second fish
Great catches Chris!!!! Big Bulls!!!! Congrats!!!!
Awesome report Chris! That sucks that you lost that big fish!
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awesome your on fire with these big bulls
Sweet report and awesome catches, too bad those hooks pulled youll get umm next time!
This an awesome report. Watching the video makes the reports even more cool.
Thx for sharing.
great report and video
Nice bull chris keep it up!!!!
thats an awesome report chris. big bulls man, way to go. sorry to hear you lost the big one. keep hitting tha sand hard and you will get em.
awesome videos. GOT ME PUMPED!