29lb Ling
Put up a good fight, too. Then it saw the boat and freaked the f%$k out and put up an even BIGGER fight. Took 15 or 20 minutes to reel it close enough to the boat to hook it and throw it into our ice chest.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b123/AlphaFire_X5/2006-06-11007.jpg)
he's jes a baby...
Just threw him in the ice chest? Not even the decency to conk him good first?
Wait til I tell PETA...
HAHAH
I could totally beat you up
hahahaha
One day me and you are going to have to meet up alpha!!!
He didnt tell you that the fish was pregnant. What a mean mean boy!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: makenzie71 on July 03, 2006, 10:14:19 PM
he's jes a baby...
Just threw him in the ice chest? Not even the decency to conk him good first?
Wait til I tell PETA...
hey a$$munch im a member opf peta " People Eating Tasty Animals" :nono: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 03, 2006, 10:51:52 PM
hey a$$munch im a member opf peta " People Eating Tasty Animals" :nono: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
such as squirrel, racoon, opposum, and neutra rat. Yum yum, tastey treats!!!!
Tad you are starting to sound more like OMW everyday!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
IT was a joke damnit, ive never eaten any of those animals~~!!!!
Youre a drunk AJ, lay off the booze
ROCK N ROLLL
Uh huh
I've eaten all those critters.
I'll do the honors. Ahem.
"That thing's bigger than you are! Eat something, boy!"
Thank you. I'll be here all night.
Serously ,though. Tasty looking fish. :cheers:
you have an ice chest that big?
Naw man, here's how you ice a realllly freaking big fish (my experience was with a swordfish of about 300lbs.)
First, you must be on a boat big enough to handle said fish, otherwise you must be creative. (Usually you're expecting a big ass fish if you're putting whole squid on the line.)
When taking it back first you purchase many many many bags of ice, then you cover the bed of your pickup in ice, then you throw in the fish, then you add enough to mostly cover the fish, then you throw some tarps over it and tie those down.
My dad said I should have thrown a tarp down first too, but I wanted the water to leak out, to lessen the load on the poor little mazda B2000 as I went over the hill.
Oh BTW now that I'm done explaining exactly how (probably) Alpha iced that fish
NICE FREAKING CATCH!!!!
Quote from: aaronstj on July 04, 2006, 12:43:56 AM
I'll do the honors. Ahem.
"That thing's bigger than you are! Eat something, boy!"
Thank you. I'll be here all night.
Serously ,though. Tasty looking fish. :cheers:
Yeah seriously, I do need to eat.
Quote from: pantablo on July 04, 2006, 12:58:42 AM
you have an ice chest that big?
The ice chest was something like 4.5 or 5' long. The fish just barely fit inside.
Quote from: CirclesCenter on July 04, 2006, 01:30:28 AM
Naw man, here's how you ice a realllly freaking big fish (my experience was with a swordfish of about 300lbs.)
First, you must be on a boat big enough to handle said fish, otherwise you must be creative. (Usually you're expecting a big ass fish if you're putting whole squid on the line.)
When taking it back first you purchase many many many bags of ice, then you cover the bed of your pickup in ice, then you throw in the fish, then you add enough to mostly cover the fish, then you throw some tarps over it and tie those down.
My dad said I should have thrown a tarp down first too, but I wanted the water to leak out, to lessen the load on the poor little mazda B2000 as I went over the hill.
Oh BTW now that I'm done explaining exactly how (probably) Alpha iced that fish
300lbs was a little more than this puppy. She was a mere 29lbs and only 4.5 to 5 feet long. We were on a 30' Wellcraft 290 Coastal Tournament Edition boat with twin Yamaha 225 outboard motors, totaling somewhere in the vicinity of 600HP. This was something like a $200k boat we were on; whoah. It weighed 12,000lbs with a full fuel tank and got around 1.4 mpg.
Anyways, I caught her about 7 miles off the Galveston jetties after having travelled 60 miles out to find nothing. We caught the vast majority of our fish at that one location 7 miles off. Anyways, I reeled her in close enough to the boat so that our driver and host could hook her. When he did he swung her up over the side of the boat and directly into the ice chest with one felll swoop. Unhooked her and slammed the ice chest lid shut. Lings are known to put up a hell of a fight, even after they are in the boat. Our host had his shin slashed by one before, and the gauges knocked out of a previous boat by one as well. After that fish we headed straight back in, as it took up the rest of the ice chest, pretty much.
I wouldn't mind trying to catch a big sword fish, sail fish, or marlin though.
Sword fish are boring, you use ridiculously high test line, and just set the tension so all you do is just keep reeling. You're strapped in the chair and the rod is strapped to you. If you set the hook good, (Just yank ridiculously hard) it's a no lose situation for you, and for the fish, well it's served with pilaf.
Boring. You can even change the gear reduction on the fly so cranking is easier, or faster.
Gime me a good trout any day, on like an 8lb test line, then there's some actual "I might lose it" happening.
The fish was hooked using a simple circle hook, half a 4oz sardine, with 30lb test (maybe 20lb) line. No gear reduction either, but this fish was pullin' pretty damned hard I thought the rod was going to snap. Went around the boat, then under the boat, then towards the engines, then back to the side. Fish was crazy.
That's just a 16" long fish.. it just looks huge cuz alpha's so damn skinny.
lmao Niceguy. . .but isn't that like calling the kettle black? I seems to recall that your fairly skinny too.
Quote from: blue05twin on July 04, 2006, 06:35:39 AM
lmao Niceguy. . .but isn't that like calling the kettle black? I seems to recall that your fairly skinny too.
Moi? Nah, I'm a fatass... All 135lbs of me. That gives me like 45lbs on Alpha... and I'm only 5'3.. which means he's got like 10 inches on me... sumbitch... I'm a little roly poly compared to alpha.. :laugh:
Nice fish!
Saw a guy play a 4' barracuda with 2lb line on a fly-fishing pole; wire leader, of course.
Quote from: ajgs500 on July 03, 2006, 10:58:25 PM
Tad you are starting to sound more like OMW everyday!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
scuse the ignorance... whats OMW
Quote from: weaselnoze on July 04, 2006, 11:58:21 AM
Quote from: ajgs500 on July 03, 2006, 10:58:25 PM
Tad you are starting to sound more like OMW everyday!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
scuse the ignorance... whats OMW
That would be
Old Mr. Wilson (http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?action=profile;u=52)
Does anyone know if he really is old
Sometime the way he writes it doesnt seem so
Alpha - What a long... :laugh:
This is from the gallery - at 50y/o
(http://www.gstwins.com/photogallery/albums/userpics/10052/Mar12%5E83.JPG)
Ehhh hes not that old,
I was thinking 60's
To some of us, he's already an old fart. :laugh:
j/k OMW. You put laughter in our life. Even if you don't intend to. :thumb:
Quote from: annguyen1981 on July 04, 2006, 12:39:18 PM
To some of us, he's already an old fart. :laugh:
j/k OMW. You put laughter in our life. Even if you don't intend to. :thumb:
I think he'd be proud of me for reeling in that fish :)
Nice fish!
Alpha 1
Ling 0
All those that witnessed agreed, it was a fair fight, and within the proper weight class.
If you're parting that thing out, I get dibs on the tail fins.
Will those gills fit on my sea bass?
yeah thats a nice fish. I love to go deep sea fishing for Mahi-Mahi (aka Dolphin fish), Tuna and wahu. And when you are fishing for big fish like that there is a reason to use 300llb test line, try bringin' in a huge tuna on something lighter than that and you are going to run a good chance of losing it.
Quote from: natedawg120 on July 06, 2006, 08:59:01 AM
yeah thats a nice fish. I love to go deep sea fishing for Mahi-Mahi (aka Dolphin fish), Tuna and wahu. And when you are fishing for big fish like that there is a reason to use 300llb test line, try bringin' in a huge tuna on something lighter than that and you are going to run a good chance of losing it.
Yeah, at the same location we caught the ling we pulled in dozens of Chicken Dolphins (Mahi-Mahi) and triple tails. Drop in bait, pull out fish.
I wouldn't mind reelin' in a tuna. They look like they'd put up a decent fight.
Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on July 06, 2006, 11:28:13 AM
Quote from: natedawg120 on July 06, 2006, 08:59:01 AM
yeah thats a nice fish. I love to go deep sea fishing for Mahi-Mahi (aka Dolphin fish), Tuna and wahu. And when you are fishing for big fish like that there is a reason to use 300llb test line, try bringin' in a huge tuna on something lighter than that and you are going to run a good chance of losing it.
Yeah, at the same location we caught the ling we pulled in dozens of Chicken Dolphins (Mahi-Mahi) and triple tails. Drop in bait, pull out fish.
I wouldn't mind reelin' in a tuna. They look like they'd put up a decent fight.
Decent is an understatement. I fought a 184 lb Tune for three and a half hours. They are tireless and man i will tell you i was really really sore the next day. Wouldn't trade that experience for anything though. Same trip we brough back a little shy of 200 lbs of mahi-mahi, a smaller tuna and a 4 foot brown shark, a couple wahu. It was a great day.
Edited for readability :laugh:
Nice catch! This thread just reminded me that I really need to get out and go fly fishing this summer.
Cool, nice catch alpha... I know I showed photos of the sail I caught last year, I just got the mount a couple of months ago. (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/Stephen072774/DSCN0121.jpg)
Daaamn that's awesome! I would love to catch one of those.
That's one purdy fishie!!!