Your Best "One that got away" story

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Originally Posted by Aaron&Julie

Jim,
You're my kind of fisherman. I liked your stories, and I can relate. Besides the fact, you fish out of my original stomping grounds, Redondo and such.
Gotta say though per Joe Beck's post, Julie's lost halibut, was my greatest loss.
Aaron

Thanks Aaron. Yours really hit home as well. It's a drag to loose your own fish but I really hate loosing a fish like that if it's someone else's. My old Redondo fishing buddy Mike hooked a huge dorado off SBI during the late 90's El Nino~ maybe five feet long. He hooked it on ten pound as there were some small line shy yellows on the paddies. So he had it on for a good while, and we eventually tried to chase it down. I had to gaff it off the bow while the boat was in gear, and I gaffed in the gut and there was no-where to drop it. So I tried to walk it back to the stern deck, it went ballistic and it then ripped out shaking off the gaff by tearing it's own guts out before I could flop it on board. So it not only broke off in the end but with the hole in the belly I killed the fish as well. Still haunts me to this day when I think about it.

Jim