Steve Rinella
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Nope.
Brody knows it.
Down and dirty?
Stu App taught down and dirty, basically meaning that anytime you fight any fish, but for this instance, tarpon, is that anytime that fish's head goes left, you bring your rod tip down and to the right.
And when you turn him to the right, you bring your rod tip down and to the left.
And you're basically not only tiring him out, but you're breaking the fish's will, is what he thought.
And so that
He felt that like in 15 minutes, he could pretty much land any single tarpon by doing that.
So I thought I was going to do that.
I didn't do it.
But yeah, we chase him all across this basin, like a mile or something.
And we get to the back of this basin.
The water's getting shallow.
We probably hooked him in five or six feet of water.
And we're in like two to three feet of water now.
And there's this little bridge that's kind of like in our periphery.
We're not really paying attention to it.
And there's a Creek, you know, leaving the basin going out at, I guess, depending on what the tide's doing, going in or out.
But at this moment, it's going out into the Creek.
And, uh,