SPIN AND WIN

I’m a pelagic tragic. I’m addicted to spinning the rocks for small pelagic species like salmon, tailor, bonito, and rat kingfish.

There’s nothing like that feeling when, after hundreds of casts, your metal lure comes to a grinding halt and you feel the rhythmic headshake and tail-beat of a fired-up predatory fish transmitted up the line.

There’s nothing like watching your light 7-foot spin rod bend in a solid arc towards the water as the unseen fish peels off line against a tightly set drag.

For a few moments, you don’t know what you’ve hooked. It could be anything – a jumbo salmon, a monster tailor, a kingfish, a bonito or something else!

If it’s a big salmon, it could all come unstuck the moment the fish breaks the surface in one of its trademark acrobatic leaps.

If it’s a decent tailor, the line could part the instant the monofilament leader grazes its razor