Pulled out of the driveway at 6:15 loaded and ready to hit the "trailer park" in WB. Ran about 45miles to a new live bottom spot that was "loaded". All I pulled off that was 2 nice reds and some hurt feelings. Moved in a few miles to a ledge and caught a few more fish to round out the day. Did I mention I got my feelings hurt? Next time I go back I'm hangin up the hand cranker and going back to the electric! All and all better day than sitting at a desk.
Nice mess of puddinheads! Stick with handcrankin! The secret is to scream "I can't" when your mentor yells lift! I hear you on the hurt feelings, had mine shattered a couple times by those watermelons...maybe one one day. Nice work and good eating at least. Keep on reporting.
HOLWACHAGOT
When the guy on the other side of the boat had a 10lber run over and tangle me up snapping the PowerPro releasing the biggest Ive ever seen...... how about I get one that big on the electric and then go back to hand crankin! By the way there are 2 Saltist riding with me nowadays Nick but, the 6/0's are getting rebuilt to be back in action for the fall.
Indasan,
At least you know who to use for bait now...The guy with the ten pounder. Sorry about your luck. Besides, the one you lost will be heavier when you go back with the juice to get him. I wanna see a pick of him WHEN you catch him.
HOLWACHAGOT
Nice catch John. Way to put it to em with the conventionals. You know where they live. You can go back and crank on em. Revenge (from last week) is sweet. Congratulations.
I often wonder what the limitations of our smallish hand cranking outfits are. I have seen large (up to 50 lbs) blacks landed on the Delph boats in Key West using primarily small saltigas. Deep water and, possibly, less snags?
Brother Slip and I have had gags pushing 30 and I know of some 40's and a couple of 50's caught on manuals. I also know there have been a great many 10s, 20s, 30s and bigger that have had their way with us.
Divers are reporting goliaths in our waters and a large warsaw is not unheard of.
I guess my current thinking is go light, so that I can fish longer without getting tired holding the heavy tackle or electrics. Reaction time to the bite makes all the difference on those gags. Using this approach, I feel I can catch 50% of grouper bites plus that occasional trophy, when I get lucky.
All of this becomes mute once the water starts cooling a bit this fall and the gags go on their "amorous" ways. Like all of God's creatures groupers get careless and agressive when the hormones are raging. Then, revenge comes easy!
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Hey Seabiscuit, ever tried a 6/0 hs with NARROW tiburon frame (no levelwinding needed) and a "reel colors" pwr handle for groups?? IT'S AWESOME!!
Still on the heavy side but doable .
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