Not my fish - we watched a guy fight this monster for over a half hour on the beach at the Gasparilla lighthouse yesterday. Quick pic, then a successful release complete with a face-filling splash of the tail.
....and some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers, like sae mony road-makers run daft - they say it is to see how the warld was made! Saint Ronan's Well - Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1824)
They had a local guide with them who had paddled the bait way offshore with a kayak, out to the channel dropoff where the tournament boats fish for tarpon. He had several hundred yards of line out when it hit.
....and some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers, like sae mony road-makers run daft - they say it is to see how the warld was made! Saint Ronan's Well - Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1824)