He was trying to steal my bait.
Don't give me any crap about stiff arming....
It went 50.2 lbs at OEX, I shouldn't have bled it on the water but I was estimating/hoping for 40lbs out there.
I launched at 7:00am, planned to troll a rapala out to deeper water and then work the irons and knife jigs. I dropped a dorado colored cd-14 about a 1/4 mile after the buoys and then got hit 2 minutes later. Ripped line like crazy on a brand new TLD-15 with 50# dark green power pro braid tied directly to the rapala. My gps showed he was towing me about 4 mph for several minutes, then started an up and down fight. It could hold it's depth so well that I was starting to get bummed it would be a bsb. I only needed one gaff shot, I noticed it had a couple other wounds, this fish was someone elses heartbreak recently. On the beach at 8:00am, how sweet is that?