Salad, wind, waves & bats

[LONGCAST JOE]

Ended up doing a quick catch and go for about an hour this evening 6 - 7pm. Conditions were not ideal at all, 20 knt wind in the face, 3-4' surf, low tide had just turned and salad all up and down the water column grabbing my line from where it entered the water down to my sputnick. Let my first 3 casts soak about 10 minutes apiece and spent 5 minutes between each picking the salad off my line. The baits were coming in a bit chewed on or gone each time so I decided to give it one more cast and hold my rod instead of putting it in its holder to see if I could distiguish a bite from salad wrapping onto my line. I definetely felt something pick up my bait after only a couple minutes, lowered my rod tip to horizontal, counted to 5, and raised it back up to set my circle into something, may it be a fishes mouth or a big salad clump, but it set into something. Then it took off and started screaming out line with no big wave approaching to be sucking salad into it, but then let me gain 20yds back before it started the tell tale parallel to shore sideways runs...Was no fun with all the salad still attached once I got it in the wash trying to solo grab it but I eventually dragged it up onto the sand. Didnt have a tape onhand this sesh so put a pack of cigerettes on it for scale reference but my best guesstimate was 53-54". Trying to post this from mobile so not sure if the pic will make it up tonite but its nothing special if not

[lamnidae]

Good job battling conditions and elements. I bet this one felt good landing it.

[vdisney]

Ya did good Joe, we hit it the other night with 5 rods for 3 hours................not a bump 

[Latimeria]

Yeah, buddy!  Nice bat in bad conditions!

[SevengillTheVC]

Nice! He even brought you a pack of Marbs!

[SurffishingSean]

Nice to tough one out during crappy conditions.