Rare wrote:Was he fighting the fish in the fight chair?had the rod in the gunnel rod holder? Or rod dogging it?
Things I remember from the guy are it was team effort of four well-experienced people working together very hard. Otherwise, it could get very dangerous or lose fish. He said it was rather scary to see huge monster coming up from the bottom...
Now as amateur experience using penn 13/0, my cousin used to live in Hawaii and had 28' cat (they called it cat). He got penn 2 speed 13/0 on that boat. I also brought some of my heavy gears. We thought we were fully armed to fight blue marline. And we went out to FAD (fish aggregating device) at deep water. He got 13/0 on the rod with bent rod butt. We hunt for 2 days but ended up a few good size wahoo (called ono). The rod with 13/0 got only one hit during the trip. I moved the rod to improvised fight chair. I realized our set-up of fight chair was so wrong. The rod with 13/0 was so heavy. Two people had to work to reel in the line not because of fish fight but weight of the reel. There was not much fight at all. We were just fighting with heavy reel with wrong set up (I hated bent rod butt). and at the end, it was 20 LB fish called skipper jack (tuna cousin). It was total waste of gear. It become a good decoration. what a shame...
