Thread: Need some info guys!!!!! heading there next week!!!!!!

well that sums it up! I called the hotel i had booked and they were happy to reschedule the last week of march for me. that was about as bad a feeling as i would imagine telling the wife that i got a girlfriend.lol well maybe not quite that bad but it was rough!. I won't sleep a bit for the next few weeks now. HOPEFULLY the report will be alot better at the end of march.... and i am a mono man myself. Took my wife with me last trip. and she is a small gal 5ft'2in and about 110 lbs. She couldn't handle those big rods real well , so i had her a shimano stella 4000 spooled up with braid, $200 worth of power pro later, she had the best experience of her life. lol was the funniest thing i ever saw....... we would go fish perdito from dark till about 4:00 am then go hit the pier till about 10:30am or so. bout the time it got HOT and crowded. we would get back in the hotel , and she would be laying in bed , twitching and jerking she was so tired, and all she could talk about was getting back on the pier....... was so funny, but it ruined us both

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well that sums it up! I called the hotel i had booked and they were happy to reschedule the last week of march for me. that was about as bad a feeling as i would imagine telling the wife that i got a girlfriend.lol well maybe not quite that bad but it was rough!. I won't sleep a bit for the next few weeks now. HOPEFULLY the report will be alot better at the end of march.... and i am a mono man myself. Took my wife with me last trip. and she is a small gal 5ft'2in and about 110 lbs. She couldn't handle those big rods real well , so i had her a shimano stella 4000 spooled up with braid, $200 worth of power pro later, she had the best experience of her life. lol was the funniest thing i ever saw....... we would go fish perdito from dark till about 4:00 am then go hit the pier till about 10:30am or so. bout the time it got HOT and crowded. we would get back in the hotel , and she would be laying in bed , twitching and jerking she was so tired, and all she could talk about was getting back on the pier....... was so funny, but it ruined us both
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200$ worth of power pro on a stella 4k ? Was it 5 lb ?? Or about 4 spools

several spools lol. half of it was due to her hooking into those rays, everyone would be yelling cut it of and such cause they crossed line up so much. loose about 50 yards at a go. then on a 4000 size reel. didn't take long before you didn't have enough line capacity to due much if you hooked into anything good, soooo . strip the rest off and respool. i crimped and made leaders more in that week than i did my entire life, fingers were actually sore from it.she did hook one king , that spooled her, but those aint real big reals,, i never saw the fish, people on the pier were saying it was a king.

Hate to hear that..

First I'd also recommend mono on a larger reel with you being green concerning salt, but if you choose otherwise..
I'm Not sure what size braid you were using , but if you insist on using it, 15 on a 4000 should be sufficient for many kings, and I'd also advise against cutting the line, get a few wraps around your hand (or pliers)and pop it