Crazy fish caught 1 mile off the beach

The wind was ripping for several days strait and I mean blasting. 20-25 knots on the forecast and blowing what felt like 25-35 at my house. Having not fished in a week my friend and I were hoping to sneak out for a quick trip. Saturday I woke up and it was still blasting at my house so I decided to call it off. Later that night the wind calmed to 10 knots while I was at the airport. I conferred with my friend and we decided to make the call in the morning based on where he was in the central valley. He said the wind was 10 knots at 230 in the morning and it seemed around 15 knots at my place so we decided to make the call from the launch. We headed out after deciding it was safe. From previous experience I had a feeling that this would be the case and then the wind would start blasting 1-2 hours after sunrise. My main plan was to deep drop before sunrise and then go for pelagic. On the way out I caught 2 goggle eyes. From there I continued out to 600ft to start deep dropping. Not particularly marking anything I made my first drop and started getting bites right away. They were what felt like small bites but 600ft down you’re really counting on circle hooks to do the work for you. Once I felt reasonably sure I had a fish on I stared reeling. Around 6 minutes later I got it to the surface. It was what I would later find out was a deep sea moi or more commonly known as a beard fish. I figured it wouldn’t survive going back down and so I kept it. All of my wahoo belly bait chunks were still intact so I dropped it again. With only 12oz of lead it took about 3 minutes it make it to the bottom. After hitting the bottom I put the reel in gear and turned to put the beard fish in my fish bag. I had been expecting more tiny bites but as I turned back around he rod was doubled over. At this point I had no idea of what to expect after all this was only my 8th deep drop, ever. I knew it was bigger than the last fish as it was pulling drag at first and then periodically as I brought it up. It was now 10 minutes before sunrise as I slowly brought the fish up. It took about 15 minutes but when it was close I saw a huge back mass and I wondered what the heck it was. During the fight I was really only hoping that it wasn’t a shark. I took some pictures and sent them to a few people while I looked online. I had seen one caught on YouTube before but I couldn’t remember what it was. After a lot of deliberation I decided to put it in my fish bag and take it in. It was a little over 5 feet long and I had to bend the tail to get it in my fish bag. I didn’t get the fish bag oriented quite right and the kayak was very tippy as I made my way towards my friend on the 200ft ledge. He had actually helped land the fish about 10 minutes prior. The wind came up on cue right at an hour after sunrise and we started making our way in.

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