The spinning lemon!

Went down to the keys with JD Fagan we though we would have a bait hook up but we got to the spot and out buddy's neighbor stole the carcasses we were going to use . He hooked us up anyways with some skipjack tuna; one of which was the biggest I've ever seen... over 15lbs. The tide wasn't favorable so we hit a new* spot.

I got caught on bottom but yanked it off, then Fagan got hit while floating his bait out, it shook his bait off and stuck his hooks on bottom . Pulled that off too and tried again. This time I put a quarter pound yellow jack on the surface just floating away from the bridge and JD put a bait out on the balloon. I got a SCREAMING hit not too long after. Certain it was a blacktip I set hook crazily as I normally do and since the shark was at the telephone poles I didn't let it pull out any drag... I had this nice lemon to the seawall in less than 5 minutes. Being as green as it was became difficult, the shark did a mad death roll forcing JD to let go of the leader.

This rod just doesn't bend...

Some innocent bystanders offered a rope so we gave it a go. JD and dread-lock man on rope gave the tail a little tug and the shark jumped clear out of the water and onto the seawall effortlessly!

We also ended up loosing a small shark that night at another bridge and JD caught a bonnethead as well. The next morning we went to another bridge and got 5 jacks for bait and I'm still convinced I lost a nice kingfish... but it can be argued as a massive cero mackerel... whatever it was, it was surely a mackerel and certainly over 10lbs and awfully shiny.