Steve Rinella

somehow the tarpon just slowly moves and moves that direction.

And we're kind of like, Jake's like off the polling platform and he's getting ready to anchor and we're getting ready to literally like put our hands on the fish.

And I honestly think that there was just enough suction from that Creek that, that a hundred pounds of weight in the water, uh,

gets pulled to that creek mouth, and he goes under the bridge, so we pull the boat right up to it.

The entire boat will fit under the bridge, including the polling platform, except for the sort of holder bracket deal that sits on top of the polling platform that holds the pole itself.

We'll just snap that off.

We discussed it, and we thought that it might cause more damage to the platform if we just went for the snap.

And so Jake just told me to hold the reel and bust him off.

You never got a scale off it.

No, I wasn't going to take a scale.

If you don't know, that's a thing they used to do like, I don't know.

Well, they used to take its whole life.

In the dark ages.

That is the thing you worry about.

Yeah.

We actually, so we went offshore too a day.

And, um, where we fish these wrecks, like Jake was like, look, don't fight them fast just to be a tough guy.

Like we, you're literally going to get more fillets if you guys can get these fish in as fast as possible.

So don't have around.

And we still, luckily we were mostly catching Bonita, which aren't really, you know, nobody really eats those anyways, but, uh, we probably pulled in half dozen Bonita where there was only the front half of the fish left.