I was out fishing the pier with a couple buddies, one of them being forum member Monoxide, when a pitched bait on my 9500 went off.
I spent about two and a half hours fighting this fish (of which I had guessed on the greater realms of optimism, being a tiger shark, then a lemon shark, a jewfish, a hammerhead, all the way down to a huge ass stingray) when the 65lb test power pro on my 9500 was starting to get spooled. With the collaborative help from Monoxide and a couple others, a line-to-line was accomplished onto my Avet TRX 50W. Another hour or so passed, and we had a beautiful big Jewfish onto the shore.
Pictures will come later today, I'm far too sore for any of that crap.
Thanks for taking a couple seconds for this short read,
John Frederick Widmann, IV.
Tight lines and bent splines.
By Monoxide (Shawn)"on with the pics".
The start of the fight roughly 12:00 AM midnight
she hasnt turned yet
trying to be a photographer (im not gonna quit my day job)
is that sloth from the goonies?
tied in to the quad after 2 hours. for some reason i dont think 65lb braid is supposed to be on this reel
i think he thought he was on the beach
John and some random jew that showed up at the pier
me and john with that random jew that made a appearance.
i think there maybe more pics on other peoples phones. ill try to find all the pics
it was a good time but to long of a fight. lol. it was around 4 hours or so. i dont know how well he swam off after we left. he was swiming when re let go but was doing it flounder style. maybe he was confused on what he was. lol. ill get the pics up tomorrow. im tired and need sleep.
Sounds like you guys had an exciting fight..........I bet it was fun tying into your other reel. Congrats on your catch and looking forward to seeing the pic's
4 hours...I don't blame you for getting some sleep first. I would have fell asleep at the two hour mark. Can't wait to see the pictures!
a 4 hour fight is better than no fight at all. good catch man, cant wait to see the monster jew
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on a 9500 that's awesome
Just an average fisherman.
it was 2 hours on the 9500 then tied into the trx and another 2 hours on that. we didnt want to lock down to 100lbs of drag on 65lb braid and number 9 wire. lol. all the pics we got are from cell phones so they may not be the best.
Very nice catch, looks like you need to upgrade to a spinner with more drag so no tie ins necessary. Very impressive on that 9500 none the less.
after we tied in we saw that we could have got it on the spinner alone because after we tied in we never went out of the 65lb braid. we tied in with prolly 100 yards left.
after we tied in we saw that we could have got it on the spinner alone because after we tied in we never went out of the 65lb braid. we tied in with prolly 100 yards left.
Even better 
Estimated weight of fish?
Great summer time fishing tale and final results are a joy to see...young men catching Big Fish on a pier,reminds me of simpler times and similar adventures.Thanks Widmann and Shawn for the report and pics .
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will once we start seeing sharks over here you need to take a trip. the est weight was around 200 or so.
i wanna catch one of those