X-Wrap to the head Jacks, Macks, & Lost King Kong!

Jimmylevelwind · 2013-02-10T19:27:15Z

The past two days have been bad luck for me. Went to the Inlet today talked my way around the beach workers and started fishing. They are pumping sand in up there and the Inlet will be shut down for fishing and beach walkers for up to three weeks. I tried taking pictures of all the jacks, you have to look hard to see them in the pictures. I just bought a brand new X-Wrap... So on my first cast off the end of the jetty, I hook up as soon as it hits the water. It was a nice sized tarpon around 100lbs 5-6fter. He jumped and I didn't bow And I paid big time for it guys! The plug comes flying back up at me I duck but not far down enough! And this was the ending of the fight. Warning pictures below are not pretty! So I climbed down off the rocks walk through the slime and feel where the hook was. Yeah it was in deep and the barb was sunk down deep into my scalp. So I did was any real man would do... I push the hook hard into my head to get the barb to come out on the other side. Now I have a VMC treble hook through my head... So I get my pliers and grab the barb and try to flatten it out... No luck... So I get the bolt cutters out Clip the other two hooks off and then cut the back side of the hook and pull it through... I should have been a doctor This was after the operation! So, I missed the best fishing time trying to unhook my head... Well no I didn't. Next cast while dripping blood. Then the macks moved in thick. So I put a mack out live after spotting some tippers. JD HAMMER Those Mustad hooks can't hold my tippers up here... Lost a nice 6ft BlackTip in the surf due to Mustad So I put out another mack and loose nice 5ft spinner in the surf... So I cut the jack in 3 pieces... I was kinda mad... Toss the head in the water and about 15min later a King Kong shows up... She was black with her dorsal showing coming right infront of a wave... It was a big Tiger she grabs the head and started to swim off... She was about 8ft long but really fat and all black... I grabbed the mid section put on a 16 0 hook on and tossed it out 5 mins go by and she's back... She grabs the mid section and starts taking off slow due south... She starts picking up speed and I set hook... 1 hour into the fight the line goes slack... I reel up the slack she was still on... I get her in the rough surf and try to get pictures... Then the hook pulls... So I packed up and off I went... This was a rough day for JimmyLevelWind...

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Gasparilla Big Game

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Dedication

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Posted : 02/12/2013 8:02 pm

slasherx4

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Holy crap. You did pretty good for a hole or two in your head.

Just an average fisherman.

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Posted : 02/12/2013 8:58 pm

jknflorida

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HARD CORE FISHING !!!!! :mrgreen:

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Posted : 02/17/2013 5:58 pm

matt26

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last year a guy off the skyway got a hook right by his eye and I took it out for him he gos you would be one hell of a doctor I said no thanks

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Posted : 02/25/2013 3:42 pm

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