Jigging Wilmington with special guest

**gman** · 04-20-2009 12:48 AM

Well this strip was special in many ways, I finally got to fish with one of my best friends PLUS I succesfully landed something I never did before on a jig. These two pictures are a good indication on the rest of the report

ENJOY ... Hardcore baby if it doesnt hurt your not doing it right!!!!

**gman** · 04-20-2009 12:50 AM

I fished with Andy and Topper so I am writing this report from our persepective. Other please feel free to chime in.

Topper and Andy, it was my pleasure to fish with you both, I enjoyed our time and you did amazing for first time amberjack jiggers. Congrats Andy you are a hell of an angler and that was a slob you caught Saturday

Well we all met out and had drinks friday night which was fun as most of us met for the first time. Not a late night but definately a fun night

***If you are in Wilmington and you dont eat at Terrazzo's you are just a stupid ass, they have the best food down there and have excellent service not to mention eye candy for you single guys

**gman** · 04-20-2009 12:54 AM

Ok we all met as usual at 5:30 am ready to go the water was flat calm and we were ready to go. Personally I was excited to really get to use the final production rod of the 10000X and the Black Monstro. I fell in love with the Ocean Revolution 10000X, I can honestly say its my favorite jigging rod of all time. I was impressed with its power and bend.

Boat 1: Glenn, Chip, Andy, Topper
Boat 2: Sami, Dan, Pete and AL

We made quick time top our first stop because of the ocean conditions and got ready to roll. On our boat the first drops were really frustrating ones. I immediately was bitten of like 3 times in a row and continued losing like 12 jigs. I boated the first fish which was a Huge albie followed by several ASSACO Jacks LOL

Today was cutoff central ... sharks and King Macs just cut us off all day.

Then it was Kingfish central and thats where Topper (Mac Daddy) took over boating several decent sized Macs in short time. Meanwhile Andy had his technique down and started hammering away at the fish

These two guys did great for the first trip. We couldnt find the amberjacks until about 1pm and then all hell broke loose. We started bailing fish at an epic rate

Andy broke the small fish curse by landing a slob Amberjack in the 85 pound range followed by several from Topper, chip and myself. All fish in the 52" range but SUPER FAT.

I then proceeded to fight what I thought was a shark but ended up being the largest Amberjack of the trip which was in the 100 pound class. The fish wasnt long but its girth was almost 40" round

This wasn't a normal trip but the variety was amazing, Topper was on fire catching king macs, blackfin tuna on topwater, grouper and amberjacks. Andy did great as well catching Albies, and big amberjacks. Me I got very lucky on this trip catching some pigs and a special friend who should shut some critics up about catching big fish on spinning gear ... only joking!!!

**gman** · 04-20-2009 12:56 AM

some pictures

**Van Wildonher** · 04-20-2009 01:00 AM

Is that the 10000X with that shark? Looks like you guys had a good time.

**gman** · 04-20-2009 01:02 AM

enjoy the shots

**Tenacious** · 04-20-2009 01:07 AM

Nice pics Glen, thanks for sharing

**gman** · 04-20-2009 01:08 AM

I'm pretty beat at this point, I just landed some quality 50" fish but I drop down immediately and as soon as I hit bottom and retrieve several times I get slammed. As a normal large amberjack will do it sits a second and then takes off but teh run was pretty long.

I settle in and start gaining but after I gain, it takes away. Basically its a give an take battle but I'm not gaining much. Chips circling the boat and Im starting to think I have a record fish. Chip tells me he has deep color but Im looking at my half empty fish and wondering how. He tells me whatever it is its frigging huge.

I battle this beast for about 30 minutes withe the Ocean Revolution 10000X and a stella 20000PG. Finally we get to see what it is and its a huge shark. I mean big as in over 400 pounds, Im pretty confident in this number as we tournament shark fish all summer long. The things is as thick as could be and the jig is stuck perfectly in the corner of its jaw

Mind you Im using 130 leader but it still doesnt break. At this point all I want to do is land the frigging thing so I can say I've successfully jigged and landed a large shark. We get leader, chip pulls her alongside and after some pictures she didnt want o stay so she dove down deep and I need to gain about 100 yards again. Finally I get her along side us and she is every inch of 10' and 400 pounds.

Chip gently grabs the leader tells me he is going to break her lose and he breaks the leader and we watch her swim away clean ... but with my SL jig attached unfortunately. High Fives around and we go back to jigging