Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


What I want to know is can you troll for pelagic species off the stern
of that thing? You know, really big marlin? :)

I actually did that once - Army transport to Panama for a joint
training exercise. Ever the fisherman, I had a big Mitchell spinning
reel and some heavy dacron line. One of the Army Quartermasters found
a piece of wood on the ship that looked like an old railing - rigged
up some guides out of nails and went fishing.

Didn't catch anything, but the Army types thought it was pretty funny.
Even the Captain came down to take a turn on the reel. :)

I think I have a picture of that around here in the old timey files -
I'll see if I can't find it.

Later,

Tom

Sometime I'll tell the tale of my close encounter with a Courts-Martial.

Eisboch