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Jack Sprengel
2016-02-11 15:52:18

One of The Largest Gamefish Ever Landed While Casting Lures on Spin!


Finally got a chance to take the New North Rip 30 out on the type of run she was built for, A jig and pop run with 3 great clients Jeff Conti, Mike Argiro, Rodney Jean-louis and East Coast Charters Mates "The Kyles Kyle Oneppo and Kyle Paparelli. Running buddy boat with us for this trip was ECC's Captain Brandon Lake and Team ECC's Landon Cohen aboard Venator. After making short work of what should have been a lumpy ride, the two boats began to search an area of promising life signs and fishy energy. Brandon hailed me on the radio to alert us that we had fish about 2 miles north of us. We steamed in his direction and together we boxed in a solid mass of birds bait and feeding tuna. Both Crews fired and just as I remarked about fish on the screen and beginning to surface, Kyle Paparelli (Who was fishing a Shimano Stella 18,000 on a custom rod tipped with a 10 Big Game Series RonZ in Silver Metallic) yelled JACK!!!! and was literally pulled off his feet towards the stern of the boat. Kyle Oneppo helped Paps back to his feet and to navigate around the engines as fast as possible. What followed next was hands down the most legendary dump of 350 yards of line off a spinning reel that I have ever seen. In a desperate effort to get some line on the spool I literally had to put the boat up on plane in the direction the fish was heading. Eventually the fish stopped its run and swam up near the surface, once there it began a series of wild changes in direction, random dives to the bottom and eventually even turned directly at the boat and charged us. We had a lot of heat on this fish and rotated the crew though quickly to keep the right amount of heat on her. Then unlike many of these jurassic fish that I have hooked this season this one made a huge mistake, it came to with in throwing distance of the harpoon. As it quickly streaked across the bow, I made a now or never repeat hail mary shot and hit pay dirt. The fish immediately dumped all 300ft of poon line and the poly ball shot by me as if it were fired out of a cannon. I could barely breath at the thought of losing the fish to a pulled dart like Lou and I had with that Mega Sword a few weeks back. But not this time, the fish pulled the ball across the surface hard "Jaws Style" for about another hundred feet then something changed, it was as if it ran out of gas, Poon in your back will have that effect sometimes I suppose lol. Kyle Oneppo was up on the rod and made a series of Hard pumps and quick cranks and managed to plane that meat submarine upwards to the surface, the fish got with in range of the 8' Jay Jigs Gaff and I nailed it with a mint head shot, VICTORY. The fish measured in at 92 and weight 400lbs Gutted, putting it a little over 400 live weight! Finally, a real Giant on Spin. This fish was the very first fish, on the very first Tuna run for the North Rip 30 with East Coast Charters and is one of the largest Game fish EVER to have ever been hooked on a lure and landed on spinning gear, something my friends Capt Bobby Rice and Capt Dom Petrarca have already set the standards for! Hard to imagine what it must have been like for Dom's crew last season with the near 600lber THAT ALSO ATE A RONZ!!!!. Hell of a start for the North Rip and I can now say with absolute certainty that it is not only one of the best looking, but is hands down one of the most efficient sportfishing center consoles I have ever had the pleasure to work on. Moments later Capt Brandon Lake and Landon also landed a handsome 70 Bluefin on a Stella 20,000 on a custom jigging rod and a 10 Green Glow RonZ. We putted twords each other fish in tow and managed these awesome photos while boating our fish! Story book Day for the boat and my top notch crew. One that I'm sure we will never forget. Special thanks to Landon Cohen for the killer shots of us boating the North Rips first tuna!
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Feb 11, 2016 11/02/16
SCOTT POWELL
well done. catch of a lifetime indeed
Feb 11, 2016 11/02/16
Jack Sprengel
Thank you Scott, We were spooled up with about 375yrs of 80lb Power Pro White with and FG Knot to attach a 10ft Fluorocarbon Leader. The lure was attached via a Palomar Knot.
Feb 11, 2016 11/02/16
SCOTT POWELL
impressive catch on a spinning. what lb test were ya runnin
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