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Old 11-19-2022, 02:36 AM   #1
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Sabiki Barracuda

When fishing for bait near a wreck, it's a challenge to get the bait up before a Barracuda snatches it off the Sabiki, often destroying the rig. This guy got hooked in the process and somehow I managed to land him without breaking the rig.




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Old 11-22-2022, 08:06 AM   #2
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That's embarrassing for the fish.
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Bait 😂
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Grouper bait....

Grouper eat that like it was a skittle.
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that's really amazing usually sakabi rig made by 10-15 lb line and week knots

congratulations it's like once in a life time thing
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If you tie your own Flys 🪰

You always want to go with a line heavy enough to bring home dinner incase your bait gets skunked, most fish will eat a fly. As for hooks 🪝 I go with as big that will slide down the tube of my bait rod, because they rust out of the fly when your fishing alot and you don't even know it till you feel the fly with your fingers.
Next time your not catching bait check your hooks aren't rusted out that's happened to me before until I started tying my own.
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Biggest thing I ever hooked....

Making bait, was a bronze whaler...thumb the spool and goodbye.
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Old 11-25-2022, 05:59 AM   #8
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That's embarrassing for the fish.
Yep...LOL

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Bait 😂
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Grouper eat that like it was a skittle.
A little Cuda for a BSB, can be productive. Not so popular off Florida. The favorite Grouper bait here is Little Tunny. Never had a grouper grab a Cuda. I have had Almaco Jacks, Blue Runner and Blackfin Tuna grabbed. It's like having the line tied to the bumper of a slow-moving car. The line pulls out down towards the wreck until the grouper lets go. Then you reel up a stone-dead fish with sand paper rash, but no teeth marks.


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that's really amazing usually sakabi rig made by 10-15 lb line and week knots

congratulations it's like once in a life time thing
Thanks, The rig had 30lb mainline and 20lb leaders, with weak knots and thin easily straightenable hooks. When you think that just one swipe of the line across the teeth would have ended the fight, it was pretty lucky.

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You always want to go with a line heavy enough to bring home dinner incase your bait gets skunked, most fish will eat a fly. As for hooks 🪝 I go with as big that will slide down the tube of my bait rod, because they rust out of the fly when your fishing alot and you don't even know it till you feel the fly with your fingers.
Next time your not catching bait check your hooks aren't rusted out that's happened to me before until I started tying my own.
Yeah, good point. It helps to rinse the sabiki with fw at the end of the day. The expensive Hyabusa D119's seem to rust out at the barb. Always checking the barbs when recycling a sabiki.

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Making bait, was a bronze whaler...thumb the spool and goodbye.
When a boater snags the line, Some of the guys in my area will free-spool it so the prop gets bound up in braid.
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