old man and the sea Mackay QLD>

O.K. Used a pilly on trebbles, 40lb line with short trace in 4 metres close to flooding low tide. I live at campwin beach near Mackay, so this happened one kilometre from my back door. Anyway he jumped on and screamed, I mean screamed 200 metres of line in 20 to 30 seconds on reasonable drag.
I nipped the drag up and tried to reel in my other line,it started running the other way and whatever was on there ran for the reef and snagged up. snipped it.
I couldn't get my anchor up in time as I was running out of line, so snipped it too and went for the tow. Nothing new to me, as I've hooked sharks in the same area (last week went for a ride behind 6 foot + leopard shark, untill he rolled and sheered my line).He/she swung out to open water which was not where I wanted to be as the wind was up and waves 1.5 to 2 metres . O.k. normally, but with an unknown on the pointy end it was a bit disconcerting.
It was a tug of war for 20 to 40 minutes I'm guessin' (I was busy at the time), and then he just gave up. I reeled him in and then I was faced with the dilemma of where to put 5 foot of fish (Still kicking) on 13 foot of kayak
I unclipped the back of my seat and spun 180 to load him on the back, got him on board just as I was broadsided by a wave which in turn shifted the load before I could strap him down.
So now, I was in the drink with him in open water with some of my gear dislodged, fortunately the trusty prowler didn't capsize and I still had old mate attatched. (The spaniard, I mean) I sgrabbed my gear and scrambled on board
All I could do was tow him back to the nearest beach (reference to the old man and the sea) about 2 kilometres , was able to load him on the back still with my seat unclipped as I had to sit well forward to allow room for old mate, then paddle a further 2 Ks up the creek to home
It was fairly humourous returning up the inlet as there were quite a few boats out and as I was paddling up the usual banter was up, as in ,did you get any etc.? My reply was yeah, Just one....
Unsure yet as to uploading pics on here as its my first post, will follow up when I find some time.

Hi KP... You've been a busy lad... great fish screaming away, another heading for the rocks, snip the second, then the anchor, take a swim... re-enter the yak.... still land the fish... yep... you had your hands full!

Very entertaining!

I must point out that taking a dip probably helped you keep your cool, eh?

What did your friends say when they saw the size of the "only one" you caught?

Hope the pics turn out!

Jimbo