Long rod surf fishing has been around for decades and many surf fishermen (including myself) started this way with twelve to fourteen foot Calcutta rods and Penn Jigmaster reels loaded with thirty-pound mono
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Although commonly recommended in folklore and even some papers on sting treatment, there is no scientific evidence that urine, ammonia, sodium bicarbonate, boric acid, lemon juice, fresh water, steroid cream, alcohol, papaya, or hydrogen peroxide will prevent further stinging from box jellies, and some of these substances even cause more venom to be released
If you fish very much at all, you have likely felt that distinct KA THUMP! My thought process is that the aggression is many times brought on by the shear excitement in seeing a bait fish of that preferred size