03-24-2012, 02:31 AM
While living in Belize as a young man of 19-21 years [
] we used to catch 2-5 pound snappers that ran through a channel on the island I lived on. One night while making a quick dinner fishing trip I hooked a fish on my anchovy that shook it's head and turned against the current to run. I pulled as hard as I could and it didn't slow down a bit. We fished by hand off of the spool so I went to let off some more line and as soon as I let my grip loosen a bit the whole spool shot out of my hand and into the channel. That was a BIG fish.....I've caught halibut that had nothin on this guy...locals told me it was most likely a marlin...
I was also surprised by this guy at Jordanelle;
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] we used to catch 2-5 pound snappers that ran through a channel on the island I lived on. One night while making a quick dinner fishing trip I hooked a fish on my anchovy that shook it's head and turned against the current to run. I pulled as hard as I could and it didn't slow down a bit. We fished by hand off of the spool so I went to let off some more line and as soon as I let my grip loosen a bit the whole spool shot out of my hand and into the channel. That was a BIG fish.....I've caught halibut that had nothin on this guy...locals told me it was most likely a marlin...I was also surprised by this guy at Jordanelle;
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