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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cowbaby" data-source="post: 4035428" data-attributes="member: 46875">That's incredible catching a 600lb Mako. I could just imagine how tuff that would be. They are quite the acrobats themselves.I used to have an old lighthouse box Penn 9.0 and 12.0 matching set with wood handles but a guy offered me 500 dollars for the pair and I unloaded them on him.Yea they recorded it . With an axe handle. Ha. Surprisingly this fish didn't acrobat much but kept coming to the top swinging his bill trying to cut the line. He did some major sounding though. If you notice on the ground behind me is another one that was a jumper around 240lb, plus 11 Tuna and 3 baby yellowfin that got used for bait to catch these and you might understand why I retired. I was just one of those magical days in the ocean where everything was going nuts. I even caught some skipjack on a bare hook after they chopped all the feathers of the jig. I think me and my partner boated around an incredible 800lbs that day but he got seasick and couldn't fish much. I will never beat that anyhow.There was no catch and release as the Mexican captain and deck hand started knocking everything with axe handles before they brought them into the boat. I would have been fine with it but they didn't speak English. I couldn't even bring them back to the US due to USDA and customs regs so I traded them all for 150lb of packaged smoked marlin which I could bring back. Man, If you ever get a chance to eat smoked marlin tacos they are to die for,Nothing on the sign is correct as I surely didn't catch them on 40# tackle or in an hour.[ATTACH=full]376841[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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