An evening trip to New Smyrna/Edgewater on the night of Easter with my buddy Zack. We started at the North Causeway in NSB looking for live bait, and didn't see anything. Plus the pier was crowded with fishermen. So we left there and decided to try Edgewater before we went home. At Edgewater, we first attempted to jig artificials. I used a tandem rig that had two 3" gulp swimming mullets and my first cast I immediately caught a small bluefish. After releasing him back in the water, I tried the tandem rig again but no more fish. I switched to a DOA nite glow shrimp and no hits. By then my frozen filet of crevalle jack meat was thawed. So I chunked it, hooked it, and tossed it out in the water. After a short soak, I got a good hit and felt a powerful fish on the end of the line. As the fish is making runs and pulling line off my reel, I'm looking at Zack like "is this for real?". LOL
A good 5-10 minute fight and I get it up closer to the dock. It was a bigass black drum, my personal best for sure. There's no way I'm lifting it over the rails so I gently manuever it to the boat ramp where we can just slide it up. By then, the fish was extremely tired. Here are my trophy photos :)
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