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Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
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Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 07:54:00 -0500, John H.
wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:51:20 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:00:18 -0600, Califbill wrote: Tim wrote: On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 5:07:02 AM UTC-8, Wayne. B wrote: Exciting to watch: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/21/grand-blue-marlin-crazy-catch/23789529/ More power to him! I'd love to go out and fish like that someday! I wonder if he'll have it stuffed or I'm sure there are ready buyers for it. Smoked marlin is about the only way it tastes good. I have never heard of anyone eating a marlin or a tarpon. 35 years ago on the charter we took out of Hattaras the captain told us, if we got a billfish up to the boat, we could get a picture and if we wanted a mount he would get the measurements but we were turning the fish loose. Virtually all of those "mounts" are just fiberglass replicas anyway. They don't skin and stuff the fish. The "tarpon" guys I know don't kill the fish either. Actually my neighbor was saying you could catch a tarpon right now in the north end of Estero Bay, near Hendry Creek. Probably nothing close to record size but even a 4' one will put on a show for you. I really don't fish at all but I do watch fish and I am sure I could go get some if I wanted to. I have thought about taking the hook off of a spoon or a spook and seeing if I could get a hit or two. If a fish nails a plug, you know you had him if you wanted him. I would love to catch a mahi mahi, or tuna, or any other good-eating fish. But I'd catch it 'cause I wanted to eat it. I'd love to have a dock where I could walk out to the end catch a fish or two for dinner, and leave the hassle at home. === You're not likely to catch mahi or tuna from a dock since they are mostly pelagic (deep water) fish. Personally I just like being on the water which is why I own boats. To me fishing is just a fringe benefit of being out there. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford used to live a few miles up river from us in the winter time and there are pictures of them catching tarpon from their docks. Tarpon are great fun to catch but not good eating however. There are still a fair number of tarpon in the river but most of them are caught from small boats these days. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:14:23 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:
On 2/22/2015 7:54 AM, John H. wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:51:20 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:00:18 -0600, Califbill wrote: Tim wrote: On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 5:07:02 AM UTC-8, Wayne. B wrote: Exciting to watch: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/21/grand-blue-marlin-crazy-catch/23789529/ More power to him! I'd love to go out and fish like that someday! I wonder if he'll have it stuffed or I'm sure there are ready buyers for it. Smoked marlin is about the only way it tastes good. I have never heard of anyone eating a marlin or a tarpon. 35 years ago on the charter we took out of Hattaras the captain told us, if we got a billfish up to the boat, we could get a picture and if we wanted a mount he would get the measurements but we were turning the fish loose. Virtually all of those "mounts" are just fiberglass replicas anyway. They don't skin and stuff the fish. The "tarpon" guys I know don't kill the fish either. Actually my neighbor was saying you could catch a tarpon right now in the north end of Estero Bay, near Hendry Creek. Probably nothing close to record size but even a 4' one will put on a show for you. I really don't fish at all but I do watch fish and I am sure I could go get some if I wanted to. I have thought about taking the hook off of a spoon or a spook and seeing if I could get a hit or two. If a fish nails a plug, you know you had him if you wanted him. I would love to catch a mahi mahi, or tuna, or any other good-eating fish. But I'd catch it 'cause I wanted to eat it. I'd love to have a dock where I could walk out to the end catch a fish or two for dinner, and leave the hassle at home. Careful now. One of the pussies here might start calling you the Butcher of Alexandria. They seem to think that putting food on your table is inhumane if you do it yourself. That's why you hear them talk about eating out all the time. They probably can't cook either. Screw 'em. They'd just have to add 'butcher' to all my other names. Let's see - Clara the cunning soft asshole butcher... - damn, that could get kind of gross! -- Guns don't cause problems. The behavior of certain gun owners causes problems. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:24:15 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 07:54:00 -0500, John H. wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:51:20 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:00:18 -0600, Califbill wrote: Tim wrote: On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 5:07:02 AM UTC-8, Wayne. B wrote: Exciting to watch: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/21/grand-blue-marlin-crazy-catch/23789529/ More power to him! I'd love to go out and fish like that someday! I wonder if he'll have it stuffed or I'm sure there are ready buyers for it. Smoked marlin is about the only way it tastes good. I have never heard of anyone eating a marlin or a tarpon. 35 years ago on the charter we took out of Hattaras the captain told us, if we got a billfish up to the boat, we could get a picture and if we wanted a mount he would get the measurements but we were turning the fish loose. Virtually all of those "mounts" are just fiberglass replicas anyway. They don't skin and stuff the fish. The "tarpon" guys I know don't kill the fish either. Actually my neighbor was saying you could catch a tarpon right now in the north end of Estero Bay, near Hendry Creek. Probably nothing close to record size but even a 4' one will put on a show for you. I really don't fish at all but I do watch fish and I am sure I could go get some if I wanted to. I have thought about taking the hook off of a spoon or a spook and seeing if I could get a hit or two. If a fish nails a plug, you know you had him if you wanted him. I would love to catch a mahi mahi, or tuna, or any other good-eating fish. But I'd catch it 'cause I wanted to eat it. I'd love to have a dock where I could walk out to the end catch a fish or two for dinner, and leave the hassle at home. === You're not likely to catch mahi or tuna from a dock since they are mostly pelagic (deep water) fish. Personally I just like being on the water which is why I own boats. To me fishing is just a fringe benefit of being out there. I was thinking more of catfish or pan fish. One of my brothers lived on some creek near Biloxi, MS, for a while. He had a dock with a small boat. He could sit in the lawn chair at the end of the dock and catch enough fish for dinner in a couple hours. Catfish or panfish - sometimes a bass if he decided to work. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford used to live a few miles up river from us in the winter time and there are pictures of them catching tarpon from their docks. Tarpon are great fun to catch but not good eating however. There are still a fair number of tarpon in the river but most of them are caught from small boats these days. When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early '70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait. -- Guns don't cause problems. The behavior of certain gun owners causes problems. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:00:46 -0500, John H.
wrote: When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early '70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait. === That's still a very popular fishing spot but I don't know what they catch. They've turned both ends of the old bridge into fishing piers and recreational areas. Florida is good about that sort of thing. In New York they would have put up no parking signs and torn the whole thing down. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:11:45 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:00:46 -0500, John H. wrote: When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early '70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait. === That's still a very popular fishing spot but I don't know what they catch. They've turned both ends of the old bridge into fishing piers and recreational areas. Florida is good about that sort of thing. In New York they would have put up no parking signs and torn the whole thing down. Times have changed. There was a small park of some sort there, with a small parking lot. I don't remember ever seeing many other folks fishing there. We'd go after classes, catch enough for dinner, and get home to do homework! -- Guns don't cause problems. The behavior of certain gun owners causes problems. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
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Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On 2/22/15 1:14 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:00:09 -0600, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:00:46 -0500, John H. wrote: When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early '70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait. === That's still a very popular fishing spot but I don't know what they catch. They've turned both ends of the old bridge into fishing piers and recreational areas. Florida is good about that sort of thing. In New York they would have put up no parking signs and torn the whole thing down. Yes, I always thought it commendable what Florida did with the pier. But they're not keeping the bridge spans structurally sound. About 5-6 years ago they closed the eastern side of the piers because of that. The western side is 17 years newer, but its time will come. Cutting the available space in half made it much less attractive for me. I guess it will come down to how much money they can afford to spend on this. I thought you loonytarians were in favor of government not doing anything even if stuff falls apart. -- Proud to be a Liberal. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
John H. wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:51:20 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:00:18 -0600, Califbill wrote: Tim wrote: On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 5:07:02 AM UTC-8, Wayne. B wrote: Exciting to watch: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/21/grand-blue-marlin-crazy-catch/23789529/ More power to him! I'd love to go out and fish like that someday! I wonder if he'll have it stuffed or I'm sure there are ready buyers for it. Smoked marlin is about the only way it tastes good. I have never heard of anyone eating a marlin or a tarpon. 35 years ago on the charter we took out of Hattaras the captain told us, if we got a billfish up to the boat, we could get a picture and if we wanted a mount he would get the measurements but we were turning the fish loose. Virtually all of those "mounts" are just fiberglass replicas anyway. They don't skin and stuff the fish. The "tarpon" guys I know don't kill the fish either. Actually my neighbor was saying you could catch a tarpon right now in the north end of Estero Bay, near Hendry Creek. Probably nothing close to record size but even a 4' one will put on a show for you. I really don't fish at all but I do watch fish and I am sure I could go get some if I wanted to. I have thought about taking the hook off of a spoon or a spook and seeing if I could get a hit or two. If a fish nails a plug, you know you had him if you wanted him. I would love to catch a mahi mahi, or tuna, or any other good-eating fish. But I'd catch it 'cause I wanted to eat it. I'd love to have a dock where I could walk out to the end catch a fish or two for dinner, and leave the hassle at home. Mahi Mahi are some of the most fun fish to catch. Especially the smaller 5-10# ones. They are very acrobatic, lots of coming out of the water. And when you hit a school of the smaller ones, there may be 3-400 of them. With a few big one mixed in. On the party boats, you are not allowed to fish jigs on a dorado school. They catch the hell out of them, but since the come out of the water flipping around, you may end up with heavy jig flying in to the boat. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:38:18 -0500, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:00:46 -0500, John H. wrote: I was thinking more of catfish or pan fish. One of my brothers lived on some creek near Biloxi, MS, for a while. He had a dock with a small boat. He could sit in the lawn chair at the end of the dock and catch enough fish for dinner in a couple hours. Catfish or panfish - sometimes a bass if he decided to work. Salt water catfish are not really that much of a food fish. It is a lot of work for a little bit of meat. The sail cats are a bit better but still a lot of work. The bone in the head is popular with christians tho. http://www.briancoad.com/dictionary/...fix%20fish.htm Thomas Edison and Henry Ford used to live a few miles up river from us in the winter time and there are pictures of them catching tarpon from their docks. Tarpon are great fun to catch but not good eating however. There are still a fair number of tarpon in the river but most of them are caught from small boats these days. When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early '70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait. I used to fish at O'Neils right at the north end of the causeway when I was a kid (before the toll booth on the St Pete side) That was always very productive. Sea grass was about knee high in 3 feet of water and there were all sorts of fish in there. Usually you were catching trout and reds on a buck tail. Occasionally someone would come up with a snook or even something more exotic. We'd buy some fresh shrimp and throw that out with enough split shot to keep the shrimp from floating in the tide. -- Guns don't cause problems. The behavior of certain gun owners causes problems. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On 2/22/15 8:33 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:26:38 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 2/22/15 1:14 PM, wrote: Yes, I always thought it commendable what Florida did with the pier. But they're not keeping the bridge spans structurally sound. About 5-6 years ago they closed the eastern side of the piers because of that. The western side is 17 years newer, but its time will come. Cutting the available space in half made it much less attractive for me. I guess it will come down to how much money they can afford to spend on this. I thought you loonytarians were in favor of government not doing anything even if stuff falls apart. You really do not want to start a discussion about deficient bridges. Maryland doesn't look so good and the reason is, Florida does not divert road tax money for other pork barrel projects. The question is how much fishermen are willing to chip in to maintain an interstate bridge ... just for a fishing pier. You don't fish. How much of your tax money would you want to spend on these piers? Maybe they could raid the bike lane money. ;-) The reason is Florida doesn't have freeze-thaw-salt cycles for the most part on its bridges and highways. -- Proud to be a Liberal. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:48:54 -0500, wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:52:48 -0500, John H. wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:38:18 -0500, wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:00:46 -0500, John H. wrote: I was thinking more of catfish or pan fish. One of my brothers lived on some creek near Biloxi, MS, for a while. He had a dock with a small boat. He could sit in the lawn chair at the end of the dock and catch enough fish for dinner in a couple hours. Catfish or panfish - sometimes a bass if he decided to work. Salt water catfish are not really that much of a food fish. It is a lot of work for a little bit of meat. The sail cats are a bit better but still a lot of work. The bone in the head is popular with christians tho. http://www.briancoad.com/dictionary/...fix%20fish.htm Thomas Edison and Henry Ford used to live a few miles up river from us in the winter time and there are pictures of them catching tarpon from their docks. Tarpon are great fun to catch but not good eating however. There are still a fair number of tarpon in the river but most of them are caught from small boats these days. When we lived in Tampa there was a lot of tarpon fishing going on. This was in early '70s. I never went because I'd heard they weren't much to eat. I didn't have a boat at the time. A friend and I would go to the south end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, walk out into the inlet and catch a mess of trout using shrimp as bait. I used to fish at O'Neils right at the north end of the causeway when I was a kid (before the toll booth on the St Pete side) That was always very productive. Sea grass was about knee high in 3 feet of water and there were all sorts of fish in there. Usually you were catching trout and reds on a buck tail. Occasionally someone would come up with a snook or even something more exotic. We'd buy some fresh shrimp and throw that out with enough split shot to keep the shrimp from floating in the tide. I always liked the challenge of tricking a fish into hitting an artificial but I have drown my share of shrimp and thrown all sorts of cut bait. Up there in the bay, peeler crabs were the bait of choice Hell, the damn things got too expensive to use. They did work though. -- Guns don't cause problems. The behavior of certain gun owners causes problems. |
Teen catches gigantic 1,058-lb. marlin in Hawaii
wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:35:10 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 2/22/15 8:33 PM, wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:26:38 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 2/22/15 1:14 PM, wrote: Yes, I always thought it commendable what Florida did with the pier. But they're not keeping the bridge spans structurally sound. About 5-6 years ago they closed the eastern side of the piers because of that. The western side is 17 years newer, but its time will come. Cutting the available space in half made it much less attractive for me. I guess it will come down to how much money they can afford to spend on this. I thought you loonytarians were in favor of government not doing anything even if stuff falls apart. You really do not want to start a discussion about deficient bridges. Maryland doesn't look so good and the reason is, Florida does not divert road tax money for other pork barrel projects. The question is how much fishermen are willing to chip in to maintain an interstate bridge ... just for a fishing pier. You don't fish. How much of your tax money would you want to spend on these piers? Maybe they could raid the bike lane money. ;-) The reason is Florida doesn't have freeze-thaw-salt cycles for the most part on its bridges and highways. Not much freezing but plenty of salt, up under the bridge, not up on the deck and it is warmer here so corrosion is speeded up (I assume you took a little chemistry). We just fix them, we don't ignore them and spend road tax money elsewhere. ... and you dodged the other question. Would you as a non-fisher, want your tax money spent on fishing piers. That IS what we were talking about. They are trying to pass a new tax for road repairs in California. Say we do not have the money. We passed a law a few years ago that says gas tax money has to go for roads, unless we have a financial crises. They are still stealing the gas tax. There is probably a $100 billion in iou's from the general fund for money from the gas tax ripped off. Plus they use it for car pool lanes, bike lanes, mass transit. |
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