Wow! I'd like to get a little of that!
=o)
At 05:12 PM 3/10/02, you wrote:
>I have tried. They are extremely hard fighters. The problem I have here in
>St. Mary's River, inlet, between GA & FL, off Amelia Island, is that if you
>tighten the drag enough to stop them, or try holding them with the spool,
>they'll pop something, tippet, leader, line, or rod. If you let them run,
>they'll wrap you around the bouy marker chains, or under the jetty rocks, and
>break off. I've never been successful catching one on other than standard
>hook and line. It has been an ongoing contest for the ten years I've lived
>here, and they are still the winner. They are harder to stop than a Tarpon,
>which I have been able to subdue. I love the short battles I've had with them
>on fly, but it really has been depressing to have them win all the time. I
>use about a 12" long streamer made of about 40-50 strands gold flashabou with
>a white head and painted red eye tied to a 3" long 4/0 hook . Good luck. Ken
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