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carolina kinger

Hit Bob Hall Saturday in search of Kings on slide lines, but things don't allways work out the way you hope.
I was fishing on the South East side of the pier, around 4 o'clock or so my Penn 6/0 starts screeming at the top of her lungs.(by the way,ther's one hooked up already) I think the fish is running straight out, but when I finally get clear of all the other lines I see she's heading straight out at 50 MPH. I see my 420 yards of 100# braid leaving my reel and there it goes,my oh sh*t knot and now here goes my 30# mono.I put a bit more drag on and start to gain some line back and she starts coming back to the right. At this point we're about 40 min. into the fight. When she turned around the right corner of the tee she's still out around 300 yards, at this point I back off the drag and head down the pier towards the beach.When I finally reach the sand I'm looking at mono on my reel again. Now it's tug a war for another 30 min. or so. Finally I can see my catch (6 footer close guesstimate),I go to grab the fish by the bottom lip and see the hooks in the top lip and think better of it. Grabbing the leader to pull the fish to beach for a measurement and quick release, but she had different plans. With a hard shake of the head and an about face she released herself.I watched her swim off healthy but tired like me.
One tough fish,and thanks to all the people that helped out and to the kind lady who gave me that much needed bottle of water. A fight I'll never forget!!

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Awesome!
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rabbit · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:33 pm Post subject:

WOW

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Dink · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:53 pm Post subject:

SWEET!

SharkBait · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject:

hell yah man thats awesome estimated weight?? way to go on wrangling one of the fiercest fighters in the ocean from a very difficult place to ketch one two thumbs way up sad i missed it i went to packery and cut my foot all up instead Crying or Very sad

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BALZTOWAL · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:49 am Post subject:

I wish you had it on video, sounds like a fight that would be fun to watch.

daskew1 · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:56 am Post subject:

He does have it on Video.......waiting to get it up and running. By the way i was the one with one already hooked up. My second of the day.....first tarpon was caught around 1pm about an hour fight the second Tarpon hit right before Kinger's and faught him for over 2 hours...mine would not leave the end of the T head......both big fish 6ft+ congrats to Carolina Kinger .....that was a fight that i shall never forget....both hooked up with 150lb+ fish.Mine was on a Senator 4/0. long fight!
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ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

congrats to you both. That is awesome stuff right there.

carolina kinger · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:29 pm Post subject:

carolina kinger · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject:

poorboy · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject:

good job yall i wish i could have been there

carolina kinger · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:59 pm Post subject:

Bigrock · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:01 pm Post subject:

Sounds like an exciting day on the pier! Congrats!

frayed · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject:

that's pretty badass. nice work.
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SharkBait · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:33 am Post subject:

what did all those tarpon eat? im gonna take my tyrnos30 with 80# mono on it and my fighting harness..i need to catch a big tarpon
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