Newbie at this so a little slack would be nice.

Here is the report: arrived 8:00 am with my father in law and fished from the dike towards the bridge side at mid way point of the dike for 6 hours. ABSOLUTELY, beautiful day and have never seen the water so smooth. Used 1/2 frozen blue crabs on #5 circle hooks and 2 oz weights. Threw these about 30yds. Ran up and down the dike with live shrimp on popping corks.....Nothing, was not really expecting to get a hit, but you never know. At about 11 am, my father in law got a screaming hit that melted the bearings in his reel at some point during the fight(not kidding he had to buy a new reel today). 30 minute fight and brought in a 50lb Uglier than Sin Big Ugly. 30 minutes later I landed a 34 lb BU. Yes, catch and released both. Had to tell the people stopping their cars and wanting to take my fish home to back off. No big deal.

I wanted to extend thank you to the community. We had been going to the Galveston pier and Sea Wolf for the last 2 months and getting skunked. Came across ya'lls website and spent a week researching. The forum gave me the right bait, line, place, time, etc.

Will be posting in the future.

Nice write up and welcome to the forum! You will feel at home here, theres lots of great people with good info. See you on the water.

what kind of reel did he tear up and what lb line were you using?

he was using a Shakespear (?) 4 bearing spinning rod, medium reel. Using 25 lb spider wire.