It was 16 foot seas with 3 feet of chop on top...and even in a 65 footer that is brutal.

I didn't see the girth measurement on the big one I caught, but it was just shy of 5 feet long, they tell me. Looked 39 feet long when it came over the rail.

My old man had the rod in his hands for about three minutes to see what it was like, and he told me to take it right away, he was literally afraid that he would be unable to keep ahold of it the way that fish was pulling.

Fish on...

Todd