The Ultimate Fishing Thread !

[Gold Boy]

Originally Posted by Capt. Jim

Yes, we do it every now and then. One kite, two lines on release clips. Great for sails.

Went out sword fishing tonight in hopes of getting some pics for this thread. Wind was too stiff and seas were too sloppy to run out the 14 miles to the swordfish grounds.


My guest hooked a nice snook from under an old dock in the port, but was cut-off after about 10 minutes.

Not a good night fishing....

This kite thing has now got my Attention!

What is sloppy? 4', 9' swell? 14 miles is a long way... Respect for the sea is very cool! Grew up in Cornwall England.

Are you related to Ernest Hemmingway? Didn't he right a book about you Capt?

SCREAMING REELS DUDE !!!

GB

Looking forward to your pics!

[Gold Boy]

One question is "how do I catch more fish".

Answer "think like a fish" .

[Gold Boy]

http://forum.ih8mud.com/chit-chat-section/90112-pics-day-river.html

WristPin's river pics very cool!

[Fly Rod]

Originally Posted by Capt. Jim

Yes, we do it every now and then. One kite, two lines on release clips. Great for sails.

Went out sword fishing tonight in hopes of getting some pics for this thread. Wind was too stiff and seas were too sloppy to run out the 14 miles to the swordfish grounds.

My guest hooked a nice snook from under an old dock in the port, but was cut-off after about 10 minutes.

Not a good night fishing....

I have not tried the night fishing for swordy's yet. On the left coast we sight fish them. There is nothing like throwing a live mackerel to a sunning swordy. To see one light up and chase the bait is AWSOME!

Short story:

When I was 16 my friend and I went out on his 20' Sea Craft. On the way into Avalon for fuel we found a swordy feeding. We both threw baits, unfortunately my friend grabbed a 30lb rig. Yes the swordy bit his rig. After about four hours I told him he needed to tighten the drag to put some pressure on the fish. I built the rod and reel he was using so I had a good idea of how much pressure he was putting on the fish. He said "I don't want to loose him." Long story short, After running out of gas and 13 hours later he lost the fish.

I told another friend this story before that friend came up to fish trout with us. I gave him a 4wt rod and sent him down stream with my buddy. twenty minutes later my buddy comes running up stream laughing his ass off. My friend had hooked a 10" rainbow that dragged him down two runs on the McCloud. He went face first into the water twice. My other buddy, remembering the big fish tale, said he just ran down the bank "yelling pull harder!" LMFAO

Fly Rod

[AATLAS1X]

Originally Posted by yooper

I was in my residency at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. I presented the case at grand rounds.

when was this? I have had several surgerys there......My second home!! What are you practicing?

[Capt. Jim]

The seas were not that rough, only about 3-4' but very close due to a steady 10-15 kt. wind that had been blowing all day. We had to run into the wind to get out, so it was a chore. There are so many calmer nights that we just opted for another time. The boat and crew were fine, just gettin' lazy.

They sometimes sight cast the sunning swords here, but that is rare and only coincidental when you happen to be lucky enough to spot one. Never happened to me.

Using squid or live runners for bait, we drift (Northward) in the gulfstream droping baits at 100', 200' and 400'.,We use milk jugs for bobbers with diffferent color light sticks in them. Also use light sticks and/or lights on our baits.

JUst started the swordfishing last year and was interupted with hurricanes and subsequent repairs to home. I've hooked one each time out but always managed to loose them. Perhaps next week.......

[Gold Boy]

Originally Posted by Capt. Jim

The seas were not that rough, only about 3-4' but very close due to a steady 10-15 kt. wind that had been blowing all day. We had to run into the wind to get out, so it was a chore. There are so many calmer nights that we just opted for another time. The boat and crew were fine, just gettin' lazy.

They sometimes sight cast the sunning swords here, but that is rare and only coincidental when you happen to be lucky enough to spot one. Never happened to me.

Using squid or live runners for bait, we drift (Northward) in the gulfstream droping baits at 100', 200' and 400'.,We use milk jugs for bobbers with diffferent color light sticks in them. Also use light sticks and/or lights on our baits.

JUst started the swordfishing last year and was interupted with hurricanes and subsequent repairs to home. I've hooked one each time out but always managed to loose them. Perhaps next week.......

Capt. Jim

The use of light sticks, sounds interesting, particularly in your milk jug floats ....

[Capt. Jim]

Originally Posted by Gold Boy

Capt. Jim

The use of light sticks, sounds interesting, particularly in your milk jug floats ....

We usually fish three lines. We use a red light stick in one jug, a green one in another, and a blue one in the third. As we are fishing at night, makes identifying the baits/rods real easy.

The light sticks near the baits are to attract the swords and help them see the baits. I have some pressure-activated tri-colored LED lights that you can see down below you up to abot 150 feet. They serve the same purpose as the light sticks, only brighter. Using live baits with the lights makes them real active. The light is about 15 feet from the bait and the bait continually tries to swim away from it into the darkness. He never gets there....

[yooper]

Originally Posted by AATLAS1X

when was this? I have had several surgerys there......My second home!! What are you practicing?

1999-2002 Ophthalmology

[yooper]

Caught this pike this morning. Quick bad photo taken by my daughter...


I'll have this pike for dinner tomorrow - his filets are in the refrigerator right now...

[Gold Boy]

Originally Posted by yooper

Caught this pike this morning. Quick bad photo taken by my daughter...


I'll have this pike for dinner tomorrow - his filets are in the refrigerator right now...

yooper, nice catch,

Do your pike taste muddy in the summer?

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Gold Boy

yooper, nice catch,

Do your pike taste muddy in the summer?

Nope. It's a clear, cold, spring fed lake over 100 feet deep. The surface temp reaches about 70° F in the late summer, but 4 feet down it's cooold. The pike taste as good or better than the walleyes, 'cept for all the damn bones.

I'm tempted to try pickling them, but I've learned that pickling doesn't kill several pathogenic parasites, some of which do live in this area...

[74fjsemistock]

Yooper...the pike looks like a delicious morsal!!!I had a few monthes to spend fishing in Michigan and I Wasted it in the Bay City Saginaw area and completely neglected the U.P.I loved the amount of water and the fishing was great but it was too late when I finally learned about the U.P.I'll be back some day.

[Gold Boy]

No water is to expensive if....


you....






































know the guy who owns it!!!

[Fly Rod]

Capt Jim,

Are you pulling hooks or breaking off? Swordy's are notorious for spitting thier stomach when they are hooked deep. About the only thing you can do is reef on them with a circle hook and hope to get the jaw.

I had one angler hooked on a swordy. The fish came up about 50' off the bow and spit its stomach mid air. We got the bait back still on the hook. I say pour the coals on early and loose it or land it.

Fly Rod

[Capt. Jim]

I agree with you. The ones we missed did indeed seem to be spitting it. All good solid hook-ups with screaming runs. Got everything back once we lost the fish, including my rigged squid. I was indeed using circle hooks, however, more than one person has advised me not to use circle hooks.

Hope to get out again before GSMTR.

[Gold Boy]

If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
- Kwan-Tzu

[Gold Boy]

Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid, 43 BC - AD 17

[Gold Boy]

Ernest Hemingway

"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."

[Gold Boy]

Isaac Walton

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?"
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate."

[fsusteve]

So I'm out fishing today about 100 yards off the beach, water's clear about 12' deep and 75ish degrees and tons of bait swimming around. Two reels out, one with a poppin cork/shrimp, second with a palm sized threadfin swimming his ass off for freedom. Casting out a gold spoon off the bow when the threadfin reel starts screaming out line, I mean ripping drag like it hates it. So I toss the gold spoon line down and grab the threadfin reel. Holy shit, it's a permit or shark are my first guesses as I watch about 150 yards of 20lb braid go out in about 30 seconds. Fawk, I'm trying to maintain pressure and start the boat at the same time to run this hog down. As I do this the poppin cork explodes on top of the water with about a 100lbs of pissed off tarpon shaking his head left and right, tail in the air.
Ahhh gawd damn, this sucks, do I go with the sure thing or try to land the tarpon which is gonna be sketchy at best with the set up he hooked up to. So I do the right thing, plant my threadfin rod in a holder and watch my $150 St Croix Tidemaster bend in ways I don't think is covered under warranty and grab the tarpon rod while throwing the boat in gear and trying to take some pressure off the line. I get two, three big jumps out of the tarpon before he spits the bait and takes off, fawker. Ok, one fish still on, so I turn the boat in his direction of travel and realized this fawker is down to almost the spool in line and still running. I kill the boat, and use my hand to slow the spool some because this guy ain't quitin. Every time I feel some slack and try to regain some line this fawker takes off again like he has rockets in his ass. Soooo, while this is going on, the rod with the gold spoon is beginning to drag across the boat and I realize I left a couple of feet of line in the water and something hit the spoon right next to the boat. Shit, shit, shit.....I grab the spoon rod and throw it in a rod holder to secure it and figure it's either a ladyfish, spanish mackeral or jack.
I'm almost out of line on the other rod some I start the boat again and try to gain some ground on this big bastard. After some 30 minutes off fighting this guy and trying to keep the boat straight down on him, I finally get enough line reeled in to get a clean shot of him. Without a doubt, the biggest Jack Crevalle I've ever seen and I've seen alot. Looked like a polished garbage can lid in the water, huge prolly a good 40 lbs hooked on a 1/0 hook and 20 lbs leader. I get him to the boat revive the hog and release him, anybody that big deserves to live. So I go to reel in the spoon line, when I get another tarpon hit on it. Yeah, as I'm reeeling in this joker a tarpon comes by and swallows his ass. Fawk, so again I try to maintain constant pressure so I don't lose him and he's realing going nuts. After about 20 minutes of this he breaks the leader off and swims away and I have to say I was glad, cause my ass was whipped.

Now, I was by myself, had no camera on board so I have no proof of any of this. But I don't think I could make it up anyways.....

[Gold Boy]

Originally Posted by fsusteve

So I'm out fishing today about 100 yards off the beach, water's clear about 12' deep and 75ish degrees and tons of bait swimming around. Two reels out, one with a poppin cork/shrimp, second with a palm sized threadfin swimming his ass off for freedom. Casting out a gold spoon off the bow when the threadfin reel starts screaming out line, I mean ripping drag like it hates it. So I toss the gold spoon line down and grab the threadfin reel. Holy shit, it's a permit or shark are my first guesses as I watch about 150 yards of 20lb braid go out in about 30 seconds. Fawk, I'm trying to maintain pressure and start the boat at the same time to run this hog down. As I do this the poppin cork explodes on top of the water with about a 100lbs of pissed off tarpon shaking his head left and right, tail in the air.
Ahhh gawd damn, this sucks, do I go with the sure thing or try to land the tarpon which is gonna be sketchy at best with the set up he hooked up to. So I do the right thing, plant my threadfin rod in a holder and watch my $150 St Croix Tidemaster bend in ways I don't think is covered under warranty and grab the tarpon rod while throwing the boat in gear and trying to take some pressure off the line. I get two, three big jumps out of the tarpon before he spits the bait and takes off, fawker. Ok, one fish still on, so I turn the boat in his direction of travel and realized this fawker is down to almost the spool in line and still running. I kill the boat, and use my hand to slow the spool some because this guy ain't quitin. Every time I feel some slack and try to regain some line this fawker takes off again like he has rockets in his ass. Soooo, while this is going on, the rod with the gold spoon is beginning to drag across the boat and I realize I left a couple of feet of line in the water and something hit the spoon right next to the boat. Shit, shit, shit.....I grab the spoon rod and throw it in a rod holder to secure it and figure it's either a ladyfish, spanish mackeral or jack.
I'm almost out of line on the other rod some I start the boat again and try to gain some ground on this big bastard. After some 30 minutes off fighting this guy and trying to keep the boat straight down on him, I finally get enough line reeled in to get a clean shot of him. Without a doubt, the biggest Jack Crevalle I've ever seen and I've seen alot. Looked like a polished garbage can lid in the water, huge prolly a good 40 lbs hooked on a 1/0 hook and 20 lbs leader. I get him to the boat revive the hog and release him, anybody that big deserves to live. So I go to reel in the spoon line, when I get another tarpon hit on it. Yeah, as I'm reeeling in this joker a tarpon comes by and swallows his ass. Fawk, so again I try to maintain constant pressure so I don't lose him and he's realing going nuts. After about 20 minutes of this he breaks the leader off and swims away and I have to say I was glad, cause my ass was whipped.

Now, I was by myself, had no camera on board so I have no proof of any of this. But I don't think I could make it up anyways.....

That is just plain WILD dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man fishing trips like that just get my fishin fever temperture up to red hot! Awsome man love that true story.

Thanks for that read.