Thread: Your most memorable catch.

My best experience was late one night on the old pier. With the lights shining out off the end, I could just barly make out a small fish at the end of the lights. I took an ultra light rod with 6# mono and jig and flipped it towards the fish. It was then that I realized what I saw was only the width of the mouth of a much larger fish. As it turned to grab the bait, it was a Cobia and the fight was on. He just about spooled me and I had to lay on the old pier, leaning over to try and get him back out from under the pier. I fought that fish for what seemed like an hour. No one else around to help, so I tried to gaff him myself and just about dropped the gaff! Finally I tied the rope to the rail so I wouldn't loose the gaff, but he made another run up the side. I finally was able to get him back to the end where I was successful in landing him. No one else around to witness the 26 lb. catch or it may have been a line class record. I should have never been able to land the fish, but I could see the jig hooked in his lip. I'll never forget that night. It was awesome.

I once caught a legal triple tail on 6# and a sibiki rig. sight fed 'em right past the T

Originally Posted by SandmanFishing

6' foot alewife that is on huge bait

yup... took about 4 hours of freespooling to get it to fully swallow my bait

Originally Posted by Tideline

yup... took about 4 hours of freespooling to get it to fully swallow my bait

HAHA I Would have gotten bored after the first 30 minutes of that

I am so old I have lots of great memories . A recent one happened in Oct 2012. I was fishing the four seasons pier and standing at the cleaning station fileting some flounder. About an hour after dark and I glanced over and saw two cobia cruising by. I grabbed my flounder rod rigged with a jig and scented shrimp on 10# test line and flipped it in front of the pair. The smaller one won the race and inhaled the jig. About 20 mins later a guy on the pier netted him for me. It was pure luck to keep him out of the pilings and luck that the smaller one took the jig because I doubt that I would ever have landed the big one. I sure did enjoy the filets at the dinner table . Don't know the weight buy it was a little over 36 inches. Made me smile big...