3/13 It's T time

[NoSlack]

What a day on the water. T-sharks, T-sharks and more T-sharks.

If you want to pull on one of these beast, get your self out to the weather buoy off La Jolla.

Once again I was out solo and hooked a monster at 9:15 on a Mackerel in a pink skirt, trolled at 3 knot, 50 feet down. I spent the first hour pulling 18 pounds of drag on the 2 speed and managed to get my top shot back 4 or 5 times. I knew I was in for a long haul and called for backup from the guys in the skiff that had been shadowing me.

I think they were just waiting for the call as they watched me get my clock cleaned for the first hour. As soon as Mark got buckled in to the harness we went to work on the fish. Mark was on the fish for another 30 minute before we touched the leader for the first time. I took a good arm wrap on the leader and pulled as hard as I could, only to have her kick in the after burners and make another blistering run.

15 minutes later we were at leader again and we both grabbed on and pulled as hard as we could. This fish was just hanging under the boat giving it her all. After a couple of minutes off tug a war, a split ring failed and she swam off.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Mike

My helper Mark at the hour and a half mark.


Whats left of my bait rig


Scott's T-shark


Phill's T-shark