Thursday June 5th I set out to break the Bounty Record for Seatrout, the only thing that came between me and the record was me!!! The day starts out kinda rocky, I missed a nice slot redfish first thing in the morning, so I moved down to a different area and specifically targeted seatrout. Bam! Trout on looks like a decent fish, get it to the tape and its 22". Darn not quite up to par (the records 24.30) As I'm holding the trout in the water a school of big redfish come up to investigate!!! The reds were 30-40 inches. As the trout continued to splash the reds just sat there, I didn't have a second rod and I felt powerless as the redfish seemingly mocked me with their presence. They eventually spook when I boat the trout. So I keep fishing the same area miss another good bite, probably another trout in the low 20's. By the way there are slot reds swimming everywhere around us!! They were being kinda finicky(spelling?) so I tossed a chuck of cut mullet out and caught a nice slot fish. Continued fishing and then it happens, I get a bite, set up, then begins the roll -N- thrash which characterizes the fight of a seatrout. I see a massive head thrashing the top of the water, (it's big, real big, probably 26-28 inches) which is a good fish, the one I need!!!! The trout takes off with an uncharacteristically strong run which means its a giant. As I could begin to feel the warmth and glory of a potential Bounty record coming to me, it was snatched away from me as the hook pulled out of his mouth. I was pretty dissappointed but soldiered on nevertheless. Managed a couple more small reds, a 24" trout and another 22" trout. I was sad that the 24" trout wasn't alittle bigger, he was just shy of the current record. I guess god just wants me to destroy the record instead of barely beating it. Can't argue with the big guy!!! Check out the trout picture:
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