http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehBbGH8rnM&NR

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:42:18 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

Did I ever relate the story of getting knocked out by a flying fish
one time in the Gulf?

Or would that be off-topic? :)

Not here.

Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of a guy in a bass boat getting
knocked down by a ticked off tarpon who jumped into the boat.

Are those fish any good to eat?

--Mike

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehBbGH8rnM&NR

"Tom Francis" wrote in message

Did I ever relate the story of getting knocked out by a flying fish
one time in the Gulf?



The joys of fishing.

http://www.eisboch.com/fishing.wmv

Eisboch

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:40:24 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:



I know a guy who is a producer for ESPN and he has been on several of
Bill Dance's shoots.

He is actually like this - that's why I like him - he's like me in a
lot of ways.

Stuff happens - 'ya know? :)


I had not seen that video for a while. First thing I thought of was you
working on Harry's new fishing rod.

Eisboch

"Tom Francis" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:30:14 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:42:18 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:

Did I ever relate the story of getting knocked out by a flying fish
one time in the Gulf?

Or would that be off-topic? :)

Not here.

Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of a guy in a bass boat getting
knocked down by a ticked off tarpon who jumped into the boat.

I've seen that. Somewhere in YouTube is the tape of those Chinese
weed eater catfish jumping like crazy into a boat along a tributary of
the Mississippi. Those things are dangerous - 5/6 lb fish with no
small amount of energy jumping into the boat.

What happened with me was out of no where, a school of the things came
up (we were working the rigs for snapper), a couple of them flew into
the cockpit and one zinged me upside the head. I ducked and hit my
head on the bridge ladder - out like a light.

Flying fish have a brittle beak. Local guy from here was down in La Paz a
few years ago and while leaning over in a panga, got hit in the arse by a
flying fish. Beak broke off. So a trip to the clinic to have fish lips
removed. Rather embarrassing.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:46:12 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:


Actually, I haven't heard from you. You were supposed to pick out a
good or better blank and I was going to take it from there.

As I recall. :)

I have no way to pick a blank from what you showed me. As I am not a rod
builder, I don't know these blanks from adam. I gave you my specs: you
pick it.

So there.

Then you should have said that two weeks ago - you would have had your
rod by now. :)

Just make it skinny on one end and thicker on the other. He'll figure it
out eventually.

Eisboch

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:05:37 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

About 15 pounds, nice big fat blue and the thing latched onto my
Docksiders and would not let go. I literally had to cut it off the
shoe resulting in blood everywhere - it was quite a mess.

It bit right through the leather to boot.

First time I ever went blue fishing was many years ago with my father
in law. We went out on a big party boat from the south shore of Long
Island in mid-summer. We had bright sun shine, blue skys, 20+ winds,
fair sized sized seas running, and the blues were biting like crazy.
Just a perfect day on the ocean.

The party boat supplied everyone with heavy burlap bags for their
fish, and as the day went on the decks were covered with bags of fish.

In the middle of the afternoon a small kid let out a terrified shreik
like he was being eaten alive by a shark. Everyone rushed over to see
what the problem was, and it turned out that a ticked off blue fish
had eaten through a burlap bag and grabbed this kid by the pant leg.

It was pretty hilarious once we realized he was OK.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:05:37 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

About 15 pounds, nice big fat blue and the thing latched onto my
Docksiders and would not let go. I literally had to cut it off the
shoe resulting in blood everywhere - it was quite a mess.


In the middle of the afternoon a small kid let out a terrified shreik
like he was being eaten alive by a shark. Everyone rushed over to see
what the problem was, and it turned out that a ticked off blue fish
had eaten through a burlap bag and grabbed this kid by the pant leg.

It was pretty hilarious once we realized he was OK.


First time for me was while I was stationed in Annapolis, MD. I didn't know
what a blue was, but one day everybody was running down to the bay with
fishing rods yelling that the "blues" were running. I grabbed my light
weight freshwater rod and put a six inch Rebel lure on it. Cast it into the
middle of the feeding frenzy and immediately hooked up with a 12 lb blue. I
don't think the Rebel had even hit the water.

Somehow I got it in and pulled it on shore beside me. I reached down,
intending to remove the lure that was about halfway into the blue's mouth.
It clamped down on the lure, shattering it into pieces. By then a friend
far more knowledgeable than I about blues came over, slapped my hand away
and explained what blues were all about.

Eisboch