NEW MEMBER of the 50+ pound RELEASE club

[hammer4reel]

Made a bunch of moves fishing different lumps, when finally Brad gets a good run off. He sets the hook and his rod doubles over and the drag is SCREAMING , he looks at me and says this fish is going to spool me I cant stop him. Told him to bump up his drag slowly on his Talaca, and he justs looks at the line still flying off the reel.
Finally the fish swirls way off the boat and we see its a good one. few minutes later I tell him to put some as into it and get that little bass to the boat. He laughs as the bass once again makes a hard run. Finally as the bass comes boatside I can see its a REAL good one.
I slip the net under the fish up in the bow of the boat, telling him its a dink as he cant see it. He looks over the side and sees the bass barely fits in the net. And he helps me lift it over the side.
On the deck I know before it even hits the scale he has just caught a 50 plus pound bass.
it pulls down the Rapala Digital scale to 51 pounds 12 ounces.

Sorry for the crappy pictures, but as anyone who actually has had a LEGIT 50 they are very hard to handle and get a good pic as they just want to fall all over the place. And it was a struggle to even get these pics as he couldnt hold onto the bass

and Brads biggest concern was getting this beauty back into the water to swim another day.

After these quick few pics, we swam her along side the boat for a few minutes, until see ripped away from my hand , slapping me with that great broom tail as she swam away from the boat.
The next few minutes you would have thought he had just scored a touch down at the super bowl as he fist pumped and jumped around on the deck that he had just released a super bass.

CONGRATS BRAD ON GETTING IT DONE !!!









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[tropics]

Dan nice job on the release great looking fish..

[Tuna Tales]

Nice catch and release Dan!

Congrats



Joe T.

[surfishgirl]

Nice catch.

[Tim B]

Way to go Dan and congrats to Brad on his 50

[VinoGuy]

Awesome fish and even better job on the release

[RnK]

Congrats FANATASTIC!!

[Art Berkman]

Good stuff !

Congrats !!!

[Blackfish Doug]

Nice picture & release now I know it's out there so it can be done again.

[tautog]

Congrats. It is hard to get a good pic of a lively fish. I have many jumbo 14lb plus blackfish pics that look like 8lers because I didn't take the time to properly present the fish because I was concerned with getting it back in the water.