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Time for a bigger reel... Palm Beach Monster- Dec 17, 2011

slasherx4 · 2011-12-18T15:35:27Z

story at the bottom... Jd, my mom, and I headed up North to meet up with Jimmy levelwind. We got out there, set up the gear and started fishing. JD and my mom fished the beach for sharks and Jimmy and I fished the jetty for jacks and cudas. After losing some we decide to make a run to some boat ramp in search of rays. Unsuccessful but lucky, we managed some fresh finger mullet, a peanut dolphin carcass, and the carcass of a 40lb kingfish. JD and mom had already lost some sharks, my mom lost a big shark on the 9/0. Just before reef road waterspouts forming What? Seen enough yet tourist? Approaching the spot Piping sand since sand could be piped Fishing in the slush riggin' up Lost one Eventually my mom gets the first shark of the night. reel down pump up lol This blacktip was no joke 120lbs and yes it was a blacktip, checked the anal fin around 6 and a half feet released Jimmy got a solid hit on the peanut dolphin moments later my mom's 9/0 gets hit hard and runs in it's burning LOL Fast forwarding to an hour later... Jimmy's progress: Kim's progress: another 6 and a half foot tipper, not as fat as the last one, but fought 3 times as hard. released 2 hours later... damn 50lb mono... time to upgrade lol... tried to warn you about those dolphin carcasses... The pictures don't even do this fish justice, a few inches shy from 9ft and had a girth like a pregnant bull lol, 300-350lbs, gave it a nice back cracking trying to pull it up a little. ------------------- So... after I set that 5ft kingfish carcass on my hooks nicely, JD takes it about 120-150 yards out, it sits for a while, I walk up the jetty to see what Jimmy is catching, all I could hear was screaming clicker... I run full speed, grab the rod, tighten down the star and keep on running... I was stopped dead in my tracks after about 3 steps, quickly turned around and tried to sit on the ground, there was no sitting, I had heavy drag on the reel and the fish was yanking me up off of the ground and I absolutely could not lift my rod up, I even held on to the spool a little and was pulled forward , this shark stripped a little under 3/4ths of a spool in about 3 minutes... my star was burning hot, black oil dripping from the spool and green grease from the stars, I poured ice cold water on the reel and it starts popping like popcorn, I could have made a cup of joe on my reel , after another ice cold bottle of water it was decently warm, I hope I saved the drag in it, we shall see later. Until then, all I have is this:

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rory shortt

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mono+repeated streching=garbage too.

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Posted : 12/21/2011 9:55 am

sharkinsonny

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i only wish too get spooled-----better than skunk any day

thanks for the report----exciting stuff----like the facial expression of pure will power

sonny

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Posted : 12/21/2011 10:02 am

jonathanbryan

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Dacron + Bridge = Garbage... I had a reel with dacron on it once, I hooked a tarpon it hit the piling it was gone.

But you were shark fishing from the beach no tarpon fishing from a bridge and i dont think the dacron will be gone so easy

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Posted : 12/21/2011 11:24 am

Jimmylevelwind

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That fish went east and then slight north so he would have hit the rocks at end of the jetty probably.

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Posted : 12/21/2011 11:33 am

Fighting Lady 08

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LOL Mark you are to funny!!! :lol: Piping sand since sand could be piped & fishing the slush! Shannon Yes Mark has become a very talented fisherman & young man/adult soon to be next month on the 4th....Yes his posts are awasome & photography is too....Thank's for my camera that JDHAMMER gave to me....Thank You so much J.D.!!!!....Plus alot of the pic's came from my phone...LOL....Thank You Jimmy for allowing us to be a part of your life and allowing us to fish with you at that awesome location!!!!....Thank You for your lovely comment about me jonathanbryan! That was so very sweet!!!!......Thank Sonny LOL for the likeing of my facial expression while bringing in my 2nd shark....LMAO.....Outstanding post....Mark!!!!!

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Posted : 12/22/2011 8:18 pm

SharkOutlet

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Man that's awsome....to get to feel that power ....WOW !!!!

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Posted : 12/22/2011 9:08 pm

CATCHINJIANTS (cj)

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Posted : 12/23/2011 7:03 am

blacktip

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Looks like I've been missing some good action! Nice tips and another mystery monster... Nice job guys. 8-) Look forward to fishing with you in the new year, happy holidays!!