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    Surprise Catch

    Went out last Friday on a charter to troll for kings and do some bottom fishing. While dropping a squid down to try too catch a snapper, I got a big surprise when this bad boy hit and took off! It was caught on a knocker rig with a bottom fishing outfit. Liked to have killed me getting it in. We were only 6 miles out too. It was about 7 1/2 feet long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bitterclinger View Post
    Went out last Friday on a charter to troll for kings and do some bottom fishing. While dropping a squid down to try too catch a snapper, I got a big surprise when this bad boy hit and took off! It was caught on a knocker rig with a bottom fishing outfit. Liked to have killed me getting it in. We were only 6 miles out too. It was about 7 1/2 feet long.
    WOW !!!!! SURPRISE! I'd say !!!!!!!!!!! Way to go .

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    Nice, very nice... C&R, or did you kill it?
    Ragnar Benson:
    Never, under any circumstances, ever become a refugee.
    Die if you must, but die on your home turf with your face to the wind, not in some stinking hellhole 2,000 kilometers away, among people you neither know nor care about.

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    Catch and release. Beautiful thing. God was gracious enough to allow me the experience. That was enough.

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    Heck ya nice fish and good job!
    " I Hurt myself today to see if I still feel, I focus on the pain the only thing that's real-Johny Cash

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    Nice surprise, and good deal on release.

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    you don't see that every day...nice job!

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    what boat were you on?
    get the gaff!!!

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    this is the time of year for the sails to move in with the warmer cleaner water, it is very usual for the Panama city piers to catch them from now through Ocotober I have seen quite a few from the pier over there and caught fish
    Bill..............

 

 

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