{"id":3338,"date":"2016-12-06T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fishthedream.co.uk\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2016-12-06T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:47:20","slug":"ruperts-week-part-two-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fishthedream.co.uk\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"Rupert’s week part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since I have known Rupert he has always been a big fish guy, years ago I witnessed an epic fight on his boat in the North Sea with a massive porbeagle shark and it was only going to end one way fish to boat and so it was. \u00a0So knowing of all the 100 lb plus fish we catch all I had to do was get him to the Florida Keys and it would be game on. \u00a0At last year I managed to get him over and the rest is history hook, line and sinker as they say he was hooked. \u00a0On his first Fishing Holiday in the Florida Keys one fish did it more than the others I think, our good old brawler the Goliath Grouper. \u00a0We are so lucky now having many shallow water marks where these awesome fish live take baits freely grow to over 500 lb and beat you up better than Mike Tyson so on his current trip I knew just what he was going to ask our captain to target and how right was I was.<\/p>\n

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A few video clips with this blog and sorry about the somewhat colourful language but it a load of boys and mega grouper so it’s not going to be \u00a0” what a nice big fish ” you can always turn the sound off. \u00a0Will we ever get one of the granders back to boat time will tell its a very hard balance of line strength and reel drag we have even been broken off using 200 lb line. There is just so much power and they use it so well and know all the places to hide in the wrecks the odds are always on their side. \u00a0Something has to be done about the numbers though these fish eat up to 10 % of their body weight and the total ban on harvest has meant on some wrecks now there is little else again time will tell. \u00a0I admire the US fish regulations but when you give an apex predator total protection it can get out of hand and numbers in my opinion need to be controlled for the benefit of all fish stocks.<\/p>\n

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