Ahhh those lovely bigeye's,
Fishing the shinnecock 6 day tourney a few years back with a new 50 ocean boat owner whom may have thought his time on a party boat qualified him for the big time. Sounds familiar?
Anywho, hired a capt. from the area who's half pirate but dam good out there. He got me to mate cause he knew i worked rod and reel commercial off montauk in the 80's with Capt. John keller of the professor of tuna fame as he was known.
Qwint of "JAWS" had nothing on this guy, mean it. Headed out for the overniter option with his son as second mate, experience "o". Took some secert bait out in cooler which will remain unsaid. I had to work the nite before till AM in montauk so didn't get there till 4. Droped my adderall and away we go. I asked the owner if he had fresh line on his 50's
and the one 80 and if they had been spooled rite, he shrugged his shoulders and said it's good enough. I drop my chin to my chest. Hit 100 square and throw in a massive spread, 14 in all.
I run my spreaders real close in a diamond pattern. I tell the son to NOT touch the lite drag's i set then check the rest. Go to the head, come back, go up top, find some whales, check the run of the spread from fly, bink,bink bink, 3 lines snap in a second, all the in close bars. Both birds go off and flat line with it. Kaos as usual, fish all nice Alison's. Find out that owner had told son to tighten spreader drag's when i was in head. Set up for the nite bite. Had a huge squid that i droped on the 80 deep for sword and put secert live bait on a 50 closer in. These where my rods, all others were butters on balloons. 2:30 and the krill show up in a huge cloud, i put my harness on as the owner and son had long since been down.
The 80 giggles then nothing. the 50 go a little, then limp, Capt."R' says reel, reel, reel, which i did till an abrupt stop, then an run off the likes I've never seen before,45 degrees out and smoking fast, locked it down as hard as i could, Capt."R" hands me a 16 oz sinker and i start smacking the drag, still spooling even faster, reel starts smoking, dump water on it, finally let go of handel and look at capt."r" as the line starts binding from improper spooling, then dry rot dust, and the final snap with alittle still on the spool, which was a different line altogether. Nuff said. Radio up to 2 buddies in front of us and warned them of said action, same thing happens to them only they actually fight'em for 2 hours before dropping'em at the boat. Both boats said over 300lbs bigeyes did them. This year, 70svx laced with 400lb dacron topped 200lb. flouro. WONT GET SPOOLED AGAIN!!!
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