quote:Thank you for your insight. The leader was 80lb mono and was snapped clean. No curls or edages. Definately not at the tie or swivel. So I suspect all in all it was an even bigger cod. Damn. Lost a 21oz jig too. I'm going out on a 48 hour trip with seas 1-2 ft tomorrow.
The Atlantic halibut takes years to grow and are rare here. They spawn off Georges Bank, a nutrient rich area 180 miles off the southern coast of New England upto to the Canadian Maritimes.
Ruger is going through some tough times. Massachusetts has very stringent gun laws. The Company has its hands full defending itself in liability cases. Nonetheless there still in biz.
Hali's usually "mouth" the bait or make a "killing" bite then scoup it up and start swimming off TO THE SIDE back down to the BOTTOM. What the angler feals at the rod is a "thump thump" DOWNWARD motion as its head ungulates up and dowm untill the fish gets there....they cant shake side to side.
I use mono leaders as well and I'm curious, did it "pop" or was it torn. If the point of failure was raked and raged...most likely a shark or skate of some kind. If your leader was clean of all this and no curly tail(knot or crimp failure) then I'm sure you happened into a rather large fish of SOMEOTHER species, I could only guess.
I dont think this was a Hali.
I must need a higher education, I thought halibut was a Pacific species only critter.
P.S.
How's the Ruger factory doing down there in Mass. since Bill died.
Good luck and greater fish'n
Edited by - Mr. Dean on 09/21/2004 09:49:14
