Deep Sea Fishing

[Imperfection]

Hey guys ive been a avid sailer for like ...well my whole life when i was 5 my family moved onto a 40 foot sailboat a lecomp medelist ...(for yall in the know of boats) and alot of the times when we were out at sea...id drop the old line in the water and wait...anyone have any deep sea fishing stories. Well il get us started with us this was the 1st time in my life i had ever caught a large fish i was around 11 and i was using some frozen squid dropped down to around 200 feet. After around 2 hours of nothing i desided to call it quits...well on the way up i thought i had a snag...so im pulling and pulling trying to get it undone then out of nowhere i feel a tremendous pull (not a jerk but a pull) and my drag starts to unroll. me being the exited little twerp that i was desied hey i can beat this thing and tighten the drag down all the way...(big mistake) that dagon fish almost pulled me off the boat...but i ended up pushing the pole across a metal rail to use as leverage to hold it in place (this is a thick pole mind u around an inch thick at the base). As i am almost done reeling it in i see a fin poking out of the water...im think wtf mate lol...but realy i was scared (dont ask why i was a little kid) so i call my pops for help as he comes up on deck and he sees me fighting this...(oh yea did i tell u what kinda fish it was it was a mako shark hahah) mako shark hes shocked that i was pulling this thing in myself so he get his leather gloves on and pulls it out of the water on deck and finishes it off with a billyclub. In the end we figured it was around 3 1/3 feet long...my dad was so proud lol he was telling everyone all day guess what my boy caught lol...well thats my storie anyone elts wana share theres? Oh yea sorry about the spelling i suck i know.

[Geno]

Story later.

[Imperfection]

woah...i always thought u would look diffrent

[bamagirl]

Sorry bro - I was born with the grey skin and yellow fins - now if I could just figure out who that dude is that's holding me in the pic?

This was year before last in October. The company sends us on a fishing trip once a year and this time we left from Destin at 6:00 in the evening after driving 6 hours to get there and working a full day before leaving on the trip. Yes we were tired and about rank. Headed west and started fishing about midnight around oil rigs. The first place we stopped I was on the stern with a wiggler about two hundred yards out on the surface. I saw the tuna chase my bait out of the water and miss it several times before the Capt. says to reel 'em in. As I begin to crank in my bait Mr. tuna got a good hold on it and I set the hook. I'm in good shape if a bit small (5'7", 185lbs) and I have never felt something that size pull so hard. 80lb line and a marlin rig that held over 1000 yards of line was my gear for the evening. 45 minutes of gaining a little and losing a little and he was boatside - I have never thought I wouldn't be able to land a fish in my life but I was thinking I might have to hand him off - my hands were cramped into unuseable claws and I didn't fish again (or want to) until after daylight. We caught three of these big brutes in the 120lb range that night and mine was the only one landed by the same person that hooked into it. The trip lasted 48 hours and we brought back over a ton of fish among six of us. The kicker is we got right back into the suburbans and headed home after the fish were cleaned - no sleep other than when we were moving on the boat. Very tiring but worth every second. :D

Peace,
Geno logged in as bamagirl

[JimmyC]

short stories

Parents and I were in the Bahamas this past summer deep drop fishing. We use a Lindgren Pittman electric reel with a string of 5 circle hooks and a 5-8lb lead weight at the bottom. Went out and found a ledge that dropped from 300-600ft. Made 4 drops. Brought up 10 snapper between the first three drops. Fourth drop we got bored and went to deeper water. Nothing on the fourth so we headed in. Total fishing time was about an hour.

Another time my dad and I went out to troll for dolphin. Set a course north northeast. Put out four lines and hooked up four fish less than 3 minutes later.

Haven't really done much fishing since the summer. All I've caught were a bunch of sharks. A few were in the 3-4ft range. Most were 1-2ft. Not huge, but fun as all hell.

[teriyakisaki]

spending the summer with my uncle down in corona del mar/dana point. my second time fishing (twilight charter trip) the captain called lines up in 5 minutes. i feel the nibble and BAM it hooks. beingthat im around seven or eight, it was a little hard. one of the crewmen helps me pull it in and we get it over the rail. its easily an 18-24 inch seabass. turned out to be the jackpot fish for the entire day, unfortunately i wasnt in on it. ive been "hooked" ever since. badum *crash*

[Cr4zy in da Club]

i live in miami so offshore is pretty good, but ive only gone once. i caught a few good size kingfish 15-20 pounds

[CHIBI]

Hey guys ive been a avid sailer for like ...well my whole life when i was 5 my family moved onto a 40 foot sailboat a lecomp medelist ...(for yall in the know of boats) and alot of the times when we were out at sea...id drop the old line in the water and wait...anyone have any deep sea fishing stories. Well il get us started with us this was the 1st time in my life i had ever caught a large fish i was around 11 and i was using some frozen squid dropped down to around 200 feet. After around 2 hours of nothing i desided to call it quits...well on the way up i thought i had a snag...so im pulling and pulling trying to get it undone then out of nowhere i feel a tremendous pull (not a jerk but a pull) and my drag starts to unroll. me being the exited little twerp that i was desied hey i can beat this thing and tighten the drag down all the way...(big mistake) that dagon fish almost pulled me off the boat...but i ended up pushing the pole across a metal rail to use as leverage to hold it in place (this is a thick pole mind u around an inch thick at the base). As i am almost done reeling it in i see a fin poking out of the water...im think wtf mate lol...but realy i was scared (dont ask why i was a little kid) so i call my pops for help as he comes up on deck and he sees me fighting this...(oh yea did i tell u what kinda fish it was it was a mako shark hahah) mako shark hes shocked that i was pulling this thing in myself so he get his leather gloves on and pulls it out of the water on deck and finishes it off with a billyclub. In the end we figured it was around 3 1/3 feet long...my dad was so proud lol he was telling everyone all day guess what my boy caught lol...well thats my storie anyone elts wana share theres? Oh yea sorry about the spelling i suck i know.

Too many stories, but I love jigging for samson fish.
3 foot mako in a boat,...no thanks. You're lucky it didn't take a piece out of you or your pops.

[FiLL]

I LOVEEEEEEEEEE fishingggg.. good to see other fisherman on here...

around my area we dont usually deep sea fish but we go off the rocks in some great spots.... no real full on stories but we pull up some big kingfish, jewfish and taylor.. sometimes some salmon.....

i've pulled up a 5-6kg jewfish *which for a jewie is huge* which is around 11-12lbs i think, something like that....

and pulled up a few 4kg taylor which are an awesome fighting fish.. they are very strong and tough.. lots of good fun.... i wanna go on a deep sea charter around here soon.. i've some unreal stories.....


to the bloke thats holding that yellow fin tuna.... f***ing hell that is 1 awesome fish.. i've heard they are like the 2nd or 3rd fastest fish in the sea... what rig were u using to bring it up?? thats incredible......a mate of mine had a yellowfin hooked but he said it was too heavy for his rig and his reel, and the fish just kept takn his line.. this is like 500metres worth of line that it took haha.. apparently they are nuts.. so props to u for bringing it in.

[CHIBI]

What's called a jewie over east is called a mulloway in Western Australia, and they get a hell of a lot bigger than 6kg. The biggest one I've actually seen was over 35kg. Apparently they get bigger than that, though.
http://www.sea-ex.com/fishphotos/jewfish.htm

[FiLL]

What's called a jewie over east is called a mulloway in Western Australia, and they get a hell of a lot bigger than 6kg. The biggest one I've actually seen was over 35kg. Apparently they get bigger than that, though.
http://www.sea-ex.com/fishphotos/jewfish.htm


yep thats them.... they dont get much bigger then about 10kg over here though unfortunately :( .. we can get big kingfish though and some big taylor.. just a matter of gettn in at the right time of the year for em...

[JimmyC]

I LOVEEEEEEEEEE fishingggg.. good to see other fisherman on here...

around my area we dont usually deep sea fish but we go off the rocks in some great spots.... no real full on stories but we pull up some big kingfish, jewfish and taylor.. sometimes some salmon.....

i've pulled up a 5-6kg jewfish *which for a jewie is huge* which is around 11-12lbs i think, something like that....

and pulled up a few 4kg taylor which are an awesome fighting fish.. they are very strong and tough.. lots of good fun.... i wanna go on a deep sea charter around here soon.. i've some unreal stories.....


to the bloke thats holding that yellow fin tuna.... f***ing hell that is 1 awesome fish.. i've heard they are like the 2nd or 3rd fastest fish in the sea... what rig were u using to bring it up?? thats incredible......a mate of mine had a yellowfin hooked but he said it was too heavy for his rig and his reel, and the fish just kept takn his line.. this is like 500metres worth of line that it took haha.. apparently they are nuts.. so props to u for bringing it in.


our jewfish are bigger
http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/groupjew.html

completely different species, but still cool

[CHIBI]

our jewfish are bigger
http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/groupjew.html

completely different species, but still cool

We call them grouper. Protected species in Australia.
And this is what we call dhufish (jewfish) in Western Australia...http://www.westernangler.com.au/?action=article&ID=98

[Copespitter]

Hey guys ive been a avid sailer for like ...well my whole life when i was 5 my family moved onto a 40 foot sailboat a lecomp medelist ...(for yall in the know of boats) and alot of the times when we were out at sea...id drop the old line in the water and wait...anyone have any deep sea fishing stories. Well il get us started with us this was the 1st time in my life i had ever caught a large fish i was around 11 and i was using some frozen squid dropped down to around 200 feet. After around 2 hours of nothing i desided to call it quits...well on the way up i thought i had a snag...so im pulling and pulling trying to get it undone then out of nowhere i feel a tremendous pull (not a jerk but a pull) and my drag starts to unroll. me being the exited little twerp that i was desied hey i can beat this thing and tighten the drag down all the way...(big mistake) that dagon fish almost pulled me off the boat...but i ended up pushing the pole across a metal rail to use as leverage to hold it in place (this is a thick pole mind u around an inch thick at the base). As i am almost done reeling it in i see a fin poking out of the water...im think wtf mate lol...but realy i was scared (dont ask why i was a little kid) so i call my pops for help as he comes up on deck and he sees me fighting this...(oh yea did i tell u what kinda fish it was it was a mako shark hahah) mako shark hes shocked that i was pulling this thing in myself so he get his leather gloves on and pulls it out of the water on deck and finishes it off with a billyclub. In the end we figured it was around 3 1/3 feet long...my dad was so proud lol he was telling everyone all day guess what my boy caught lol...well thats my storie anyone elts wana share theres? Oh yea sorry about the spelling i suck i know.

Almost got pulled in by a 10-15 pound fish??
You must have been a skinny 11 year old.

[Imperfection]

Almost got pulled in by a 10-15 pound fish??
You must have been a skinny 11 year old.

thx for contibuting