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Story time.
At the Galveston fishing pier last night doing some bottom fishing (bait and wait) as we call it here in Galveston with my buddy. Old man maybe 20 yards away, his reel starts screaming like he hooked a boat. He hammers the drag down to full and it's still getting line peeled off.
Me and my friend run over and see his reel about to get bottomed out, "Boy this fish has got some shoulders on him" he says. He starts to feather the reel with his thumb and eventually stops the behemoth. At this point I could see the bare metal of his spool, the fish at this point assume is a monster black tip shark or sting ray gets a second wind and tears off for a second time.
The old man has to stop the fish at this point so he stops the spool with his thumb and snaps his 40 lb mono. I never though I would see anything like that in reel life let alone in Galveston.
The old man tells us he had about 380 yards of lncuding the bottom portion of line being 50lb braid.
