Reel Class Saturday 8/16 FSOS Fluke Report

[Reel Class]

Had Larry, Fred and crew on again today for the Belmar FSOS tournament.

Left in the dark and started fishing around 6 - we went back to the same area we had them last Monday and the fish were there and they were hungry. Lots of bites, lots of 20-24" fish mixed in with shorts, but we couldn't find that "right" one. We picked ~10 keepers from this spot and all were nice fish, but we decided to make a move and go look for bigger fish offshore.

One the couple of wrecks we hit we did pick a few fish, but they were in that same 20" range that we found inside.

We then made another move, and found more of the same, with a couple keepers but no size.

Our last stop was again more of the same, but Tommy hooked a beast -- the fish tripled his rod over, and he got the fish up to maybe 10' from the net -- the fish darted, and just above his teaser, the line snapped (looked like it was chafed from rubbing on the rough bottom) - probably on that drop as we were retying and tying new leader all day long!) and the fish never got to the net. Kenny and Ryan both got a good look at it and the fish was a monster - heartbreaker Makes for a great fishing story though

Whatever the case, not that it matters, we had ~18 keepers to 5.25# -- all of the fish we kept were 20-25", nothing smaller nothing bigger, and we had 3 nice seabass and 3 ling. Fishing was good, but it was definitely a disappointment losing that fish and not placing in this tourney.