Last Saturday JD Hammer picked up me, and soviet sharker (achot), to head up to west palm beach, got out on the pier late friday night and left to fish for sometime at boynton inlet with no luck, next morning we all headed up to lakeworth pier and got lines in the water. Bait was everywhere, i put down a shark rigging and set up for bottom baits and snagging.
Snagging in a thick school of bait you would expect to catch only bait, but I had 2 snooks eat my goggleyes off of the hook and accidentally snagged a very large bermuda chub.
The shark rod got hit by a 300lb southern ray that went straight under the pier and sitting on the harnell and teh duel on full drag stopped him completely and brought him almost to the surface, but then he pulled hard and cut me on a piling.
The day was starting to get boring so people went to get lunch, moments later the boats caught bait and left and then a huge bait run of 200-300 jacks came all the way to the pier, I believe the boat spooked them cause they wouldn't hit anything.
But after 30 minutes the jigmaster was screaming, JD set hook and got stripped to the knot and turned the fish, then I walked up the pier and was handed the rod, this fish charged for the beach and in 10 minutes I was now at the beginning of the south side of the pier getting stripped again, luckily there was a bloodknot in the line that caught the swinging bank sinker full of seaweed that I eventually reeled up and had cut off so I could fight hte fish better. The fish ran into some swimmers and headed back east and towards the pier. Once it got out into the current at the end of the pier it stripped a substantial amount out of the reel and turned north west, within minutes I was back at the beginning of the pier, this time though I was on the north side.
After an hour fight with a jigmaster filled with 40lb mono and the leader was #7 wire, i was worried about this fish coming off, it made many attempts to go under the pier, but me and 2 others got in the water to grab the fish.
Eventually we had a large crowd around us and an even larger one watching us from the pier.
6ft+, 100lb+
A special thanks goes out to the old man from the pier wearing the UM shirt and hat, if it wasn't for him I wouldnt have these pictures
Just an average fisherman.
Very Cool 
I'm looking for one of those bad boys this year. Nice work.
TEAM GETCHA GETCHA SHARKON
THATS GOOD SHIT!!!!!!
nice job buddy
CLASSIC STORY AND PICS THAT LOOK LIKE THE ONES WE USED TO TAKE IN THE 70'S -"GOOD SHIAT" AS TIMMY WOULD SAY.THANKS MARK.
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that's was fun to get hands on my second tarpon in the water thanks to slasher and JD i do it again any time you guys get anther one around me...
Funniest part was the begining! We got a big jack,yea yea big jack.........5 seconds later its a cobia ,cobia!.......10 secs later what the hell its a tarpon ? 
Awesome Tarpon!!! Great catch man!!!!
Funniest part was the begining! We got a big jack,yea yea big jack.........5 seconds later its a cobia ,cobia!.......10 secs later what the hell its a tarpon ?
yea i have never seen a fish go so long without being seen
Just an average fisherman.
wow! that tarpon is huge mark. congratulations on that monster tarpon, a bet that was one fun hell of a fight. congrats again mark.
mark is the bridge and pier king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are heading out to white street in a couple of weeks let me know if ur down
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