Grouper 2007-11-21

November 21st, 2007 | Saltwater lure fishing

Fishing in stormy day
It was raining heavily with lightnings and strong winds this morning so only because I had something to do near to the beach I packed the fishing gear as well to decide later what to do according to the conditions.

At about 10:00 I arrived to the beach to find it’s actually impossible to fish- the sea was more then 10 feet high with strong south winds at 30 mph and that wouldn’t enable any lure casting.

Do you want to get interviewed?
I drove over to a small harbor for pleasure yachts, hoping to find a protection from the strong south wind in an inner harbor corner by the tall surrounding wall.

The small spot was quiet enough for lure casting but a news channel T.V crew just arrived and immediately they tried to convince me to interview about a lightning accident that killed an angler a day before.

The Grouper that became a T.V star over night
I refuse politely but agreed that the camera man will have the permission to shoot my fishing gear in action (from behind) -only if I will have a catch later

Two minutes after -the ‘later’ came… retrieving the lure two feet from the inner jetty rocks I had a strong attack with short ‘reel drug music’.

grouper strike pro

The catch scene
The camera man at that time took a “stormy backgrounds” shoots of waves blasting the marina jetty just 10 feet behind me- so he manage to shoot the event almost from the catch point until the fish land. Then, he showed me the catch scene and promised to send me the video by e-mail and gave me his mobile phone number. I don’t believe they would include it as part of the news item- but I’ll watch them tonight, just in case- and of course if I will receive the video I’ll upload it to here.

and the dry report details…
Reel - Shimano stradic 4000FH
Line - Power-Pro braid 0.15 mm ~ 15 pound test
Lure - ‘The producers” 12 cm swimmer with two VMC hooks
Lure activation - 20 yards casting and immediate and slow parallel retrieve to the rock line at two feet depth.
Rod - Trabuco T-MAX 300, casting weight - 20-60 gram, length -300 cm
Water visibility -Medium.
Time - 21:30
Light condition - darkness
Water depth estimation of the catch spot- 3-4 feet.
Fish weight - about 1 pounds
Hookset - back hook