Bloody hell....was hoping for some in depth twin sun and weather theory on those pics Seadog:grin:
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Well, Nat and his client Ron Butler had quite the fish yesterday. I will let him fill in the details but after tagging 3 fish in the morning Nat put out the last bait and watched it get devoured by a slob. In just about an hour, which is totally remarkable, Nat harpooned the fish which ended up being 101" and a whole body weight of 712lbs. A huge congrats to Ron, who did stand up to a giant, and obviously Capt. Nat for this amazing catch. Add to that, the fish was landed with a 12' 90lb fluorocarbon leader!! Go get 'em, DerekWell, it was certainly a day to remember. One of those stars aligned lucky ones where it couldn't have gone better. Ron wanted to tag only, but I brought Ice anyway. The night before I decided to put on some new top-shots just for the hell of it. We put a new leader on that rod because it had already caught a couple fish that morning. Derek and I decided last week to put the harpoon, tailrope and block and tackle on board, just in case. I'm thankful for a lot of these, but also for an incredible effort By Ron the angler, who had already fought two fish and stepped up and straight killed the big one. I'd also like to thank Mark Kooskalis who gave me the last bait out of his tank because his clients couldn't catch another one, and hung around while we fought it. Without him and one of his clients we would never have gotten that fish in the boat.
She flew yesterday and we'll see what it does at saturdays auction in tokyo. Thanks again to everyone who was a part of it and for all your kind words. Back at it tomorrow! Thanks - NatThe rod was one of our custom 50-130 standup rods with 130 jerry brown to a 150yd topshot of 130 Diamond (Thanks Basil). 12' of 90 seaguar, 11/0 saltwater hook. The first run was 400yds we ran up on her and got half the mono back and she bolted another 300. First run was at strike 28 lbs second was halfway between strike and full so probably 36lbs. After the second run we stopped her and got her to circle and that was 30 or so minutes. I couldn't wait and the angler was getting tired so I took a throw at 20 feet away and 10 feet down and hit perfectly just under the pec fin. Three circles on the dart line and we tail roped her. Couldn't have gone any smoother.