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.
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Guns don't cause problems. The behavior
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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.