It only took close to a year, but I finally broke the shark skunk streak! My last shark was June of 2018 and I've been fishing consistently for that entire time. It took a grunion run and my original Penn Squall setup to break the curse. Having a good sandhand helped too.
Andre came all the way down from L.A. to fish the incoming tide, and we both got hooked up at the same time. More evidence that soupies hunt in packs. Andre gets to his rod first since I was setting up my second rod. (sign of how desperate I've become
) He gets tight with his fish when I get my rod off the holder. I start to tighten the drag on my reel when I hear Andre yell that his fish broke off. As I am using my original Penn Squall 15 with 25lb mainline I have to be more careful not to put too much pressure on this fish. During the fight this soupie breaches a few times which was cool and nerve racking at the same time. I put this shark on the sand with a nice incoming wave.
Stats: Bait-Mac, 70" Female Soup Fin, Incoming tide