Ronwyn's Turn

This is my sister's boyfriend Ronwyn, their son Ronin, and a 34 lb. white ulua caught at the same location as Derek's biggie.
Ronwyn's first ulua was caught about a week after D's. This time though, the ulua bit at about 6:30 a.m.-almost an hour after first light, on a rising tide. Hungry and looking for a last minute meal on his way back to his cave, the ulua found a fat, juicy, night tako leg attached to Ronwyn's hook.
Under-gunned again, we came armed with only spinning tackle. But here's where it gets really interesting... Ronwyn caught this beauty on his oooooold, trusty, penn 650-loaded with 60 lb. test power pro. A penn 650... I think the ulua could have eaten the reel if it wanted to.
After emptying about 3/4ths of the small reel on the initial run, the ulua slowed down and Ronwyn was able to turn him. Luckily, this big, white, bad-boy ran to the left and didn't get hung up on any rocks or coral heads. After a hard-fought 15-20 minute battle, Ronwyn was able to bring the ulua close enough for me to net that fat buggah (always the net man, never the angler....sigh....), in one shot. Lucky for Ronwyn and unlucky for the fish, as soon as the ulua was in the net, the 50 lb. test leader broke. Unreal. This fish had Ronwyn's name written all over it.
After making a beautiful Naoki gyotaku and getting the negative on the ciguatera test, we grinded. Onolicious.
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