Forrester Studios

We just took a family vacation to Myrtle Beach, and as usual, I try my hand at a little surf fishing. I’ve done this on each vacation for the last few years, and normally catch some small white-fish and small sand sharks. This time however, I had slightly a different experience. It was about 9 pm and the tide was heading out. I baited my hook with some tough mackerel because I find it stays on the hook pretty well. I only had mine line in the water for a minute or two and then it happened: My pole lurched forward and the drag began singing as the line screamed out of my reel. I planted my feet as I tightened the drag. I felt my feet slide in the sand as the beast pulled against my line..  Just before the trip I put 50lb SpiderWire on my reel and I always use steel cable leaders when fishing the ocean – so I felt pretty confident in my rig. And then it happened – I felt the release of  all the pressure on the line..  As I pulled in the line I expected to see that the line had broken, but that was not the case. The fish had bitten through the steel cable. It’s just as well though – anything that big and bad would have probably eaten me