Pending NC State Record AJ

[snowranger]

My brother-in-law and father-in-law caught the pending NC State record reef donkey yesterday fishing out of Bogue Inlet! Way to go guys!!

As reported on another site:
Mike Krantz of Cape Carteret/Wilmington, N. C. headed offshore out of Bogue Inlet on 3/31/09, took his Dad, Ron, from Cape Carteret and friend Andy Duskie of Wilmington out to the Swansboro Hole on a combination Yellowfin Tuna/Deep Dropping trip. Much to his surprise, the Amberjack that he took to the Dudley's Marina Official N. C. State Scales for a Citation could end up being a new North Carolina State Record. The present State Record is 125 lbs., this giant reef donkey tipped the scales at 126 lbs. 8 oz. The State indicated that it would take 3 to 5 days before they would approve the new state record catch.

They didn't catch any Yellowfins, but loaded the boat up with Black Fin Tuna then decided to do some deep dropping in 350 ft. of 69o water. They caught several bottom dwellers but the big fish was the A. J. that Mike hooked up on a Williamson 9 ounce Abyss jig. Mike subdued this prize fish in 30 minutes with a Shimano Trevala XH rod, a Shimano 18000 Spheros reel with 80 lb. braid line and a 100 lb. fluoro carbon leader.

Congratulations to Mike and also to his Dad and friend Andy for assisting in getting this monster in the boat."

[34SILVERTON]

My brother-in-law and father-in-law caught the pending NC State record reef donkey yeaterday fishing out of Bogue Inlet! Way to go guys!!

As reported on another site:
Mike Krantz of Cape Carteret/Wilmington, N. C. headed offshore out of Bogue Inlet on 3/31/09, took his Dad, Ron, from Cape Carteret and friend Andy Duskie of Wilmington out to the Swansboro Hole on a combination Yellowfin Tuna/Deep Dropping trip. Much to his surprise, the Amberjack that he took to the Dudley's Marina Official N. C. State Scales for a Citation could end up being a new North Carolina State Record. The present State Record is 125 lbs., this giant reef donkey tipped the scales at 126 lbs. 8 oz. The State indicated that it would take 3 to 5 days before they would approve the new state record catch.

They didn't catch any Yellowfins, but loaded the boat up with Black Fin Tuna then decided to do some deep dropping in 350 ft. of 69o water. They caught several bottom dwellers but the big fish was the A. J. that Mike hooked up on a Williamson 9 ounce Abyss jig. Mike subdued this prize fish in 30 minutes with a Shimano Trevala XH rod, a Shimano 18000 Spheros reel with 80 lb. braid line and a 100 lb. fluoro carbon leader.

Congratulations to Mike and also to his Dad and friend Andy for assisting in getting this monster in the boat."

nice fish good luck with the record

[Anders]

Congrats on the nice fish, but there are bigger ones down there than that. I know many guys on this site going for that record and some

[SoFLA34]

congrats on the record!

[LONGFIN2]

That's awesome Eric. Congrats to them.

[merry marlin]

Beautiful fish, congratulations!
Wonderful to see this Donkey caught on a Spheros & Trevala combo.
No need for Stellas and expensive rods in our waters...
MM

[deuceswild]

Thanks for the post Eric.
The fish weighed in at 126.5lbs and was 67" tip to tip, 63" fl, and 43" girth. We didn't want to mess up all our meat fish so we threw it in the empty rod locker w/o ice for half the day. I had no clue that it was even close to a record. I weighed it so I could get my citation, and Jeff Cronk of Fish'n 4 life charters saw its size and looked up the record right then. I'm sure there are much bigger ones down there, and with an attainable world record of only 150lbs, I'm sure it won't be long before this one falls. I think the spearfishing record is like 160lbs. Anyway, thanks for all the congratulations.

MM- not sure if the spheros made it through the battle, I may be upgrading to a stella

[gottaflylee]

Congrats on your fish, There is a great chance that the next world record will come from the North Carolina...

[fishinmagician_IV]

Nice BIG AJ and congrats to the angler. That had to be a good fight and sight as it came to the boat.

[Robja]

Congrats to mike on that monster AJ. I think gman will be trying to beat it this year.