Who says catfish gear can't catch big fish!!!!

Well started school started for me this past Monday and I've definitely taken advantage of my free time doing some fishing down here at the coast, catching some nice specks, flounder and the occasional slot redfish, but today was different. We took a stroll down to our campus pier for a little flounder fishing, naturally I'm going to throw my redfish rods out while I try for flounder, I have 2 12' ugly sticks with an Abu 6500 spooled with 30lb mono. Caught a couple flounder when all of a sudden one of my big rods starts screaming! Took off, set the hook and the fight was on. This fish almost spooled me on the first run but finally gained some line back and dug in for the long haul. Total it took me about 45min to get it in and when I did it was a huge surprise. The whole time I was thinking I had a 50"+ redfish that picked up the live sand trout I had on the line but when I got it to the bank it was a 5'8" bullshark!! Biggest shark anyone has seen caught off the campus pier, and my biggest from the bank. I just want this to be a wake up call for the doubters of a good catfish setup, CATFISH GEAR CAN CATCH BIG FISH!!!

Cool catch!

Way to go Ag! Gig em

gig em

We are believers here. How did you rig the up?

That's a nice fish Sea Aggie.

How did I rig the up?

nice

Nice job now that a fish

I see you killer!!!

Miss the coast fishing, when I was in the service we would go 5 days a week. Lots of good sharks , but never a bull shark . Congrats !

Nice catch! I always use the same tackle for cats as I do saltwater fishing. always gotta be prepared!

Leader, hook, bait, etc.

Ohhhh I gotcha, I had like a 3ft heavy duty mono redfish leader, 4oz spider weight, prob about a 14/0 circle hook with live sand trout

Great fish, Nice work man!!!!

Wow! 14/0!

Roughly 14/0, it's a premade redfish leader sold by the bait shops down here, we've used up to 20/0 circles shark fishing down here

I bet that was a blast .

Nice catch! I took the family down to San Luis pass for the week in August and decided to bring a salt striker rigged up on a pro angler not really planning on fishing. I had a few rigs similar to yours. The first night the kids are in bed and the wife unit says let's go fishing. We stayed on the water so we hauled some beer down to the private beach at our house. I threw the cast net and caught some nice mullet. I cut one up and within 15 minutes...fish on. I caught about a 40" shark and the set up handled it no problem. it did manage to get into my mono when i had it in the surf and busted loose but the equipment handled it just fine.

Great catch man. Nice work!

Nice fish. Great job on the release!

Good post. Thanks for sharing.

A&M galveston? I went there. Class of 07

Indeed class of 2017 lol