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Brandon
Sosebee
13 yr old football and baseball player earns 2005 Catch of the Season |
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Myrtle Beach Fishing....
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South Carolina Fishing
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and a new Extreme Fisherman
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2005 Catch of the Season
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Brandon
Sosebee
13 yr old football and baseball player earns 2005 Catch of the Season |
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After a couple of days of wind and rain the father and son Sosebee team from Ball Grand , GA came on board and caught what appeared a good fishing day. With a calm, almost windless overcast morning we were underway seeking bait amongst backwater "skinny" creeks. Soon, repetitive throws of my cast net corralled many frisky large mullet and pin fish. Then it was full throttle ahead to 'hit" the jetties on a timely bite for what I was hoping would turn into Extreme Bull Red Bonanza. After 40 minutes, casting hard into several hot spots into the exposed barnacle encrusted rocks there was no action. We pulled out and headed for the 3 mile reef to work the incoming tide where Spanish/king mackerel, flounder, cobia, sharks and more roam, hoping the hear the happy sound of my Extreme light tackle spinners screaming. We invested a good part of the trip, but the action, while good, was smaller predators and bottom fish. I turned the boat and headed back "inside'".
We "ran" the beach first, hoping to "run and gun" for speedy "macks" and blues boiling on top. I wished we would bump into some patrolling bull reds or spinner sharks Just Beyond the Breakers™. No action; so now it was time to swing back to the inlet and work our way into the skinny water estuaries, working the cuts, spillways and flats as they filled with the flooding inbound rush. With sun breaking through the gray-white sky I decided to try the jetties once more before making completing inside turn. We hit the south Jetty with a combination of five poles rigged with lively mullet and fresh shrimp.
On the second try, just past the south point within the jetty hugging rip, the #2 pole loaded with 10lb test, 20lb fluorocarbon tippet, on my lightest rod and reel, suddenly showed a 90 degree bend and sent the tightened down free spool chirping like a screaming dive hawk. I told Brandon, "wait, wait...wait", then when sure the fish was on the sharp circle hook, signaled him to go for it. Brandon, quite a big kid at 13 yrs, was up to the task, handling this magnificent hook up as good as a pro, playing the fish firmly, reeling and letting him run as I chased and then jockeyed the boat to avoid him getting spooled. I said to myself "this kid is good". Sure enough after about 20 minutes, with his father's help holding the boat away from the rocks as the inbound flow sucked us in, down the jetties protruding north side, I was able to net this fat monster with head in the net and hand holding the tail as she we too big for the rim. This fish appeared to have as wide a girth as it was long. What a Bad Boy...or most likely, Bad Girl; probably a spawning Amazon female with that bulbous belly. After some measuring and quick pictures we had her back in the water and released. To my surprise this " feminine jetty gladiator" took off with a firm tail flip in less than 15 seconds and headed due east and out in 25 ft of water. She still had some fight left.
I turned and said to Brandon, "Red Drum are always our first target fish, and that's the biggest bull anyone under HS school age has ever caught on my light tackle on this boat. Quite a feat for a 12 yr old. You deserve the mantle of Extreme Fisherman's Catch of the 2005 Season with the great Extreme Fisherman Fighting job you did."
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