07-27-2009, 09:05 PM
[quote peter805]
I droped a rod into lake once and let me tell you that
it really $ucks a lot.[/quote]
This is veering off-topic, but that statement makes me HAVE to tell this story. I often hesistate to tell it because if someone told it to me I would think they were lying, but I swear it's true.
We were trolling for Albacore tuna on Monterey bay in my 19' center console boat. I had rigged nice security lines with QR clips on all the reels. We had a guy with us who had never fought an albacore, and my rule on my boat is that guy gets the first hookup.
We were trolling albacore jigs with large, hand sharpened (by me) double barbed hooks, so an albacore that hooked up was unlikely to get loose, especially with the 12 knot trolling speed and sometimes 25 knot fish speed.
So, one of the trolling rods went off. Nice gold Penn reel and an expensive roller rod. I told the guy to take it. He unhooked the safety line and then proceeded to fumble-throw the rod overboard.
Oh man... that was at least $500, overboard. I was pissed. But a few seconds later, one of the other rods went off. I told the guy to take it and PLEASE DON'T THROW THE ROD OVERBOARD.
He took it and commenced to fight the fish. It was hard going, but after 10 minutes or so we saw color.
GOLD.
He reeled it in closer, and we saw it was the FIRST ROD that had gone overboard. Somehow the second rod had hooked through one of the roller guide frames it as it went by. We got the first rod back onboard, and darn if the albacore wasn't still on it, a nice 45lb one.
He boated that too. Now you see why I hesitate to tell this story?
Now back to our regular float tube fishing lies.
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I droped a rod into lake once and let me tell you that
it really $ucks a lot.[/quote]
This is veering off-topic, but that statement makes me HAVE to tell this story. I often hesistate to tell it because if someone told it to me I would think they were lying, but I swear it's true.
We were trolling for Albacore tuna on Monterey bay in my 19' center console boat. I had rigged nice security lines with QR clips on all the reels. We had a guy with us who had never fought an albacore, and my rule on my boat is that guy gets the first hookup.
We were trolling albacore jigs with large, hand sharpened (by me) double barbed hooks, so an albacore that hooked up was unlikely to get loose, especially with the 12 knot trolling speed and sometimes 25 knot fish speed.
So, one of the trolling rods went off. Nice gold Penn reel and an expensive roller rod. I told the guy to take it. He unhooked the safety line and then proceeded to fumble-throw the rod overboard.
Oh man... that was at least $500, overboard. I was pissed. But a few seconds later, one of the other rods went off. I told the guy to take it and PLEASE DON'T THROW THE ROD OVERBOARD.
He took it and commenced to fight the fish. It was hard going, but after 10 minutes or so we saw color.
GOLD.
He reeled it in closer, and we saw it was the FIRST ROD that had gone overboard. Somehow the second rod had hooked through one of the roller guide frames it as it went by. We got the first rod back onboard, and darn if the albacore wasn't still on it, a nice 45lb one.
He boated that too. Now you see why I hesitate to tell this story?
Now back to our regular float tube fishing lies.
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