Texas Fish Report
Boy Gets Opah
by Bill Roecker
8-8-2007
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"Bill:
We were on the 2nd day of a 2 day trip on the boat Holiday out of Point Loma Sportfishing on Sunday August 5th. 2007.We had just hit our last paddy of the day and the captain waited about 5 minutes to make sure we had fished it out (we only caught 1 fish on it), when he decided to call it quits and head in. At the time my 13 year old son had dropped down about 500 to 600 feet with a green heavy jig when he heard the "reel ???em on in" over the loudspeaker. So my son, Tanner, starts cranking as hard as he could and after a few seconds something pulls really hard on the jig.
"After a 35 minute struggle and no help from anyone else, he pulls a giant opah over the rail. The fish weighs about 79 pounds (after being bled) and bags the $300 jackpot by over 50 pounds. He used an Avet left-handed LX6/3 two speed with 40 pound mono.
He also caught a yellowfin, yellowtail, albacore and a dorado; no adult fisherman even came close to catching him. That's Tanner Iwamura on the left and deck hand Nick Dalo on the right."
Gary Iwamura (by email August 7, 2007)
We were on the 2nd day of a 2 day trip on the boat Holiday out of Point Loma Sportfishing on Sunday August 5th. 2007.We had just hit our last paddy of the day and the captain waited about 5 minutes to make sure we had fished it out (we only caught 1 fish on it), when he decided to call it quits and head in. At the time my 13 year old son had dropped down about 500 to 600 feet with a green heavy jig when he heard the "reel ???em on in" over the loudspeaker. So my son, Tanner, starts cranking as hard as he could and after a few seconds something pulls really hard on the jig.
"After a 35 minute struggle and no help from anyone else, he pulls a giant opah over the rail. The fish weighs about 79 pounds (after being bled) and bags the $300 jackpot by over 50 pounds. He used an Avet left-handed LX6/3 two speed with 40 pound mono.
He also caught a yellowfin, yellowtail, albacore and a dorado; no adult fisherman even came close to catching him. That's Tanner Iwamura on the left and deck hand Nick Dalo on the right."
Gary Iwamura (by email August 7, 2007)
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