The jack crevalle is the baddest sob in the gulf when it comes to hard fighting and tearing up tackle. Love those brutes. Have caught dozens of them one of which may have been a state record. Years ago we kept our boat and Fort Morgan Marina aka Navy Cove and one afternoon a school of those 20-30 lb jacks came into the dock area tearing up bait. A bunch of people were watching them and I happened to have a rod rigged in the docked boat and cast into them with a speck rod and one of them grabbed it and friggin smoked me! 10 pound line and what he did to my drag should be illegal. Just took off and never stopped til he spooled me. Everybody including myself laughing. Caught one behind a shrimp boat one time that was the biggest I have ever seen, had to be pushing 40. Took me 45 minutes to get him in.
