Got to the beach with my buddy around 7 to some sloppy conditions, but I figured eh... I've yakked in worse.
Big heardheads were abundant but we managed to snag a few good size whiting.
Rigged a HH and Whiting and yakked them out.
Cut a whiting in half and set those pieces on my surf rods on some red leaders with 14/0 hooks on them.
Cast them from the second bar in between 4 foot breakers.
Tide was going out and stayed out til about 3 and that's when one of the casted rods went off while I was bringing in a Gafftop on the other surf rod.
Ended up being a bull shark from about 5'6" to 6' (forgot my measuring tools) hitting the whiting head on a short cast from my Penn 9500SS on a 12' Penn rod.
Put up some good runs but I beached it in a bout 15 - 20 minutes because It was on a week widened 14/0 circle hook and a cable-less 4 foot 300 lb mono redfish leader so I was careful with it.
Snapped some pics and released successfully.
Anyway ended up with 2 Gaffs around 24" and the bully.
Nothing touched the yakked baits, also the current was pulling 10 oz spiders down towards Quintana.
Always a blast.
Will post pic later.
GO TEXANS!!!
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