Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Had an unexpected visitor the other day while fishing off White. Were targeting terras in 110m with small gear on elec rods and doing well. All of a sudden the heavy rod bent over a fair amount and it was all on. I dared not up the drag as I was using small 3/0 hooks. The poor reel was getting hammered spinning on the drag clutch and after about a minute some steam/smoke started to come off the drag end Had to turn the power retrieve off and crank it in by hand which took a while as the fish was doing some decent runs. Anyway, got it to the boat and immed got a gaff in. Lucky we did as the hook was largely straightened out, dunno how it held at the end. Only 18kg but def at the limit of the tackle