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Man catches 881-pound tuna, seized by feds..
On Nov 24, 10:18*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:51:46 -0700, Canuck57 wrote: On 24/11/2011 5:12 PM, wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:39:57 -0700, wrote: Rod? *881 pound tuna isn't coming in on a rod. *Might tear off your arms if your rod is strapped to them. Say what?? What kind of girliemen are you, out there in Alberta? Lookie here.......... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s.../28/ns-fisherw.... So did she use a winch with the rod firmly attached to the boat? -- Rent "Jaws". it will give you a hint of how it works. They also chase the fish with the boat. Eventually the fish wears itself out and you reel it up close enough to the boat to gaff it (Gaff being a flying gaff, not a hook on a stick) THEN you winch it in. BTW to get an idea how tough a fish is, one of the fishing shows around here (Randy White?) had a little anecdote about this. They had an arrogant SCUBA diver who was picking on the fishermen and the challenge came out. The diver geared up and the fisherman tied a 6 pound test line to him on a light spinning rod. He went in the water and started swimming away. The diver took the line out pretty fast for a minute or so. Within 5 minutes he was exhausted up next to the boat. You can fight a big fish for hours, Must have been a hoot to reel these in, sore arms I bet. *Took me 35 minutes to land a 30 lb King Salmon, and when we netted it and it fell to the boat, the lure lipped hooked fell out. *But perhaps it was finesse, but my arms were shaking none the less. Now for 881 lbs.... I can't imagine catching that on rod and line without a team of people and a lot of time. *And the boat better chase it, 881 lbs of fish bolts, that line better spool. Some friends and I charted a boat out of Hattaras a while ago and got into 70-80 pound tuna. It is exciting to fight these guys but you have to be in pretty good shape. We were getting these fish up to the boat in 25-30 minutes but it was steady work. When I was in the Ft. Lauderdale area a few years ago, I was talking to some charter guys and told them that if someone at my place reeled in a 14 lb cat fish they really thought they had something. One guy looked at me and said. "sir, we use larger stuff than that for bait..." Next time I'm down there.... I'm going! |
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