Monster flatheadss!!!(8/22/16) - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

njflyfisher · #1 08-23-2016, 01:23 PM

Once again made a fishing excursion with bigboy. We had trouble finding bait this time so that slowed us down a little. We finally caught our bait and we were off to the Flathead grounds. Got to the spot around 7:30 just to find people already setup there. We moved a little down river and set up our rods. Within 15-20 min bigboy lands a nice channel around 3-4 lb. 10 minutes later my line slowly starts moving into the darkness. I feed some line to the fish while i'm tightening my drag. After the fish took some line i decided to set the hook hard!My drag slipped a little so i didn't feel the size of the fish at first but once the fish realized it was hooked it started ripping drag downstream and that's when i knew i had a monster. My ocean rod is doubled over and drag is ripping like never before. After a 5 minute fight i finally see the behemoth lurk out from the depths. Bigboy lips him and he's ours. We get a couple quick pictures and hes back off into the depths where he came from. Not much action after that. Bigboy got 1 more smaller one and we were soon going to call it quits. But bigboys reel starts slowly going off just like mine was before. He gets to it and the fish is slowly moving with the bait. He strikes and all he feels is weight. We knew it was another big one. Not putting much of a fight until it got closer to shore. I lipped it and we had yet another monster flathead. Once again quick picture and a release. His fish tapped out at 38 inches putting it about 25lb. I didnt have a chance to measure my fish since it kicked off before we could grab the tape measure. But im assuming it was aroung 45 inches but i could be wrong. The cheap boga we have was showing 35lb but i think it weighed more. ENJOYYY!!