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Decided to go out with a buddy to help him get the skunk off his boat, since he had gone out about 10 times before and struck out on every trip. It was a little bumpy getting out there but we managed to set up at about 9:00am. We used his gear which included the new Diawa 3000 electric reels. What a sweet setup. We dropped at my secret honey hole and began to wait. After about 15 minutes, other boats started to show up in the general area. One of them being, Thomas Flyer. As soon as he(Thomas Flyer) dropped to the bottom, he had a fish on. He fought the fish for about 40 minutes and finally boated him. We made contact with him over the radio, and he acknowledge catching a 140 pounder. Btw, for those of you that want to learn how it's done, charter Jimbo Thomas on the Thomas Flyer. He's a great guy with lots of fishing expertise and an expert on daytime swording. He'll definately put you on your first daytimie sword. After about a half hour, we got our first hit. We brought him up to the boat in about 20 min. It measured 51", small but at least we got what felt like a 10 lb. skunk off the boat. We reset after about 1 hour and went to the same spot where we had started. 1 hour went by and all of a sudden the rod bent over and the fish started taking out drag. I knew it was a nice size fish so I started to finese him in with a low retreive speed. When the fish got to the 1000 ft mark, he started to go ballistic... The reel would stop for about 2 sec and then continue to reel. Finally after about 45 minutes we had the fish within 100 ft. from the boat. When I got ahold of the leader to bring him in, the fish spit out the hook. What a dissapointment.. We tried for about another 2 hours and only had one slashed bait. At around 3:00 we began reeling up the line due to the Capt. having to get back to the dock at 5:00pm. Before leaving we noticed the Thomas Flyer on another fish. We later found out he had boated a fat 200 pounder. Maybe we'll catch the big one that got away next time. Till then, tight lines...
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P.S. Sorry, no pictures. The camera had no batteries..

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Wrong section.. Sorry...