07-23-2008, 12:59 AM
A couple of years ago I was fishing with my dads friend off of Jupiter Florida. We went out for jumbo mackeral and found a huge school of them. My dads friend has a commercial license and he was pretty serious about catching as many as possible to pay for the gas we were using.
We were anchored up and casting lures for the mackeral when a large yacht type boat started trolling circles around us. The captain of the 70'+ boat saw that we were catching fish and started circling closer and closer.
Finally he ended up cutting across our lines and cutting us off. My dads friend and the captain of the yacht started to scream at each other. My dads friend pulled up achor and started to chase the yacht. Finally he pulled up alongside of the yacht and I thought that he was going to board it pirate style. Instead he got as close to the captain as possible and said "If I wasn't a christian sir I would come over there and kick your ass." Then we took off.
That is as close as I have seen to a real fight on the high seas.[sly]
P.S. we ended up boating 500lbs of jumbo mackeral. I thought my should was going to fall off.
Windriver
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We were anchored up and casting lures for the mackeral when a large yacht type boat started trolling circles around us. The captain of the 70'+ boat saw that we were catching fish and started circling closer and closer.
Finally he ended up cutting across our lines and cutting us off. My dads friend and the captain of the yacht started to scream at each other. My dads friend pulled up achor and started to chase the yacht. Finally he pulled up alongside of the yacht and I thought that he was going to board it pirate style. Instead he got as close to the captain as possible and said "If I wasn't a christian sir I would come over there and kick your ass." Then we took off.
That is as close as I have seen to a real fight on the high seas.[sly]
P.S. we ended up boating 500lbs of jumbo mackeral. I thought my should was going to fall off.
Windriver
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