To go into details I haven't been able to fish a lot this year due to my kids playing travel softball and competitive Dance. I even sold my boat to the lack of being able to take it out
Anyway my buddy Chris brought a new/used boat and asked me to run a spread for him to see what we could do. After seeing all these bigger fish being caught. We talked and decided to run big and small baits. Launched out of Point Lookout and headed to #62 where I got some Intel some big fish were hanging around. We trolled for about two hour and the clip popped off the board like a gun went off and the line took off screaming! Line was out 110' with a Gary Ritchie bait called Pinky Love 6/4oz tandem. Fought the fish for about 20min and got it to the side of the boat. I yelled get the net! Captain said I forgot it.... So two of us grabbed it by the gills and muscled it onto the boat. At this point we looked at eachother thinking we got a nice one. My biggest fish before yesterday was 48.5" and I've always dreamed if getting one above 50. We were blessed to do it yesterday and I thanked God right away for giving us that fish. Official Length was 50.25" and weighed 55.7 pounds. It took a team effort yesterday and everyone did a great Job. I'm hoping now Marty (5th Tuition) will invite me on his boat!