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What would take a Needlefish??? - FishinMan06 - 06-26-2007
Hello all, Im fishing in northwest Florida, in the Santa Rosa Sound and I was experimenting with about a 3ft needlefish hooked though the back with a 75lb steel leader. When suddenly my rod slammed over and my reel started screaming. The fish made a hard run towards the opposite side of the bay, taking over a 100yds of my 50lb spiderwire and managing to some how break it. [mad]I was using my Penn 706Z and my 8ft Sturgeon Rod. Any ideas to what fish might be capable of doing that??? And how I can prevent that from happening again?
Thanks,
-Ryan
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Re: [FishinMan06] What would take a Needlefish??? - tubeN2 - 06-27-2007
There are a number of fish that could have hit that. 2 of them are the Lemon Shark or the Roller. Both are aggressive and ruthless. There could be a small chance that it could have been a Tiger Shark too. They are all along the coast right now with the warm waters.[cool]
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Re: [FishinMan06] What would take a Needlefish??? - wrstlr152 - 07-17-2007
sounds like a shark,i dont know of very many fish that can break wire other than wahoo.
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Re: [wrstlr152] What would take a Needlefish??? - MaxESTEP - 08-09-2007
A hammerhead?
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