Little late with the report been Last boat to sign up again, thanks Drew! Well, almost thanks.... Anyways, had 2 clients from Iowa and my mate Kenny. We made the long run with squidies and Gogs and set up on the 03 and the 49.3. Got the full spread out and waited 15 minutes when the 300 balloon sang a tune. Fortunately the fish was on the bentbutt so it never left the rodholder After clearing a couple of lines the fish started coming up when the long balloon sung that same tune.... Well, here we go with a double with the Iowans. Straight butt 80 sent the other gentleman Tim with the harness.... This fish seemed to be quite meatier. Few more grueling minutes for Mike and the 52" Swordy was in the boat, 1st fish of the tournament and 1 place out of the money... Knew she wasn't a money fish anyway, although the fish on the end of the double might be her!!! Long story short, after numerous rod switching and hearts pounding the clients opted to try and get the fish up.... After 2 hours I put Kenny on the rod to turn up the heat.. Fish did not want any of that and didn't stick his nose above the thermocline yet opted to descend at warp speed. After taking 500 yards of line within 1 minute note"this after battling straight up and down with a few good runs for 2 hours" I clipped the 80 with another 80, just about when she was gonna go splash........ SLACK!!!! SH!T, REEL......REEL...... Nothing...... Please come back without a hook, puhlease........ Sure enough, it appears as if Mr. Mako has elluded wants again..... Thankful there wasn't a hook.... That definately passed some time of a relatively slow night. Reset around 9:30 and nada the rest of the night.... Had both bites on ribbonfish, unfortunately I only brought two! The positive of the night was that Mike and Tim had the time of there lives....