deep sea fishing - what a big un

while on holiday this week i caught a massive fish.great experience.the pull of the fish was sooooooo big that they considered 'strapping me in' to protect my back.as anyone else ever caught one that big ?

Errrm what sort of fish?

I never caught anything "fightin chair big". But I did land a 25 lb, decidedly bad tempered Conger one day on a pier CROWDED with schoolkids diving off and swimming. Man it was like that scene in Jaws, the water emptied in a flash and no fucker went back in for ages. The Conger was realeased unharmed and well fed as is my custom, despite some of the wide eyed kids yelling "mate, the chinese will give you a tenner for it"

bansheeman wrote: while on holiday this week i caught a massive fish

Post a picture or i won't believe you :p

i caught a glass fish once in the liverpool/leeds canal.

followed that up with a paper bag fish, and a bicycle wheel fish. didn't even use any bait.

I caught a reef shark once - it was about five foot long. No idea how much it weighed - a lot though. It had millions of teeth and was incredibly powerful - all muscle. We caught a nurse shark too - that was even bigger than the reef, but had a flobbery gob and nothing like the spirit.

I've got a picture of me holding it somewhere - I'll try to dig it out.

My dad went deep sea fishing once when i was about seven. I walked into the kitchen on his return where he was gutting about 6 different types. The smell and the sight of all that blood and guts put me off fish for life.

Ugh :dead:

I lost a marlin off the Caribbean. Bastard took everything on the reel and broke the knot at the end, nowt I could do about it. Biggest thing I've ever caught was a 20lb carp and 13lb barbel, both pack a punch but nothing like a marlin!

actually it was only a mackeral

I've always wanted to try deep sea fishing, but I'm never near the ocean:(

So, I have to make due with the freshwater fish around here. Best I've caught is a 15lb northern pike.

I went sea fishing of the Isles of Sily.Everything was fine until we stopped the boat,never been so fucking sick in all my life.And we caught sod all.

Hey, look at this:

bet that was fun!

I bet that wasn't what he expected when he was offered deep-throat action.

isaac wrote: I went sea fishing of the Isles of Sily.Everything was fine until we stopped the boat,never been so fucking sick in all my life.And we caught sod all.

That's pretty bad, most people re immune to sea sickness on small vessels, the key being to make sure your eyes and inner ear are in agreement about your state of motion. Only time I ever been sea sick was the only time I ever tried to sleep on an overnight ferry, lay down, turned green, and spent the rest of the voyage on deck looking at the sea.

There aren't any really big fish left in Belfast Lough apart from a few Conger of shore caught record challenging size, most of the dogs and rays are gone, still the odd Bull Huss and the summer pague of LSD's, but no spurdog schools or the like.

Of course we're right in the middle of the summer mackerel run, and a mackerel on light enough tackle might as well be a blue marlin :D

Our old fella has always had boats,together with my uncle..pair of gung ho part-timers who take little notice of the weather forcast,just"Its Sunday!Let's go fishing in a tiny boat in the stormy North sea,and see if our Michael is off work an fancies it.."To which i usually say,since a coast gaurd episode last winter"No thanks dad,I've got summat on for Sunday"..And Mrs BRF has flat out banned our kids from the boat,which i've had to tell him..

But yeah,love going out on the calm sea,rod fishing for cod and whiting...Tho i am always the worst fisherman on the boat in terms of catching:(

My work involves running electricity through the water to catch fish. When I worked at my old job, we had a boat hooked up to that and used to bring in 30lb salmon and 40lb carp. Not much of a fight though, too knocked out to swim. Man are they pissed when they wake up. Now we use a backpack unit for small streams, get nothin but minnows most of the time. Once in a while, we get some small trout, like 2lbs max.

Sorry folks but fishing is brutal murder. I'm a militant non-fish eater. Would you do fishing if they could scream?

Bere wrote: Sorry folks but fishing is brutal murder. I'm a militant non-fish eater. Would you do fishing if they could scream?

You don't know what you are missing!

Cod&chips is a live for

Got to agree with BRF

BUT

I have a bee in my hat about Cod. Hope you are chucking the little 'uns back in BRF what with all this overfishing.

Cod from Iceland (the country not the shop before some clever cnut starts) is sustainably fished.

Ask your Fishmonger.

Fishmonger? Do they get fish stoned???

Bere wrote: Sorry folks but fishing is brutal murder. I'm a militant non-fish eater. Would you do fishing if they could scream?

same question for vegetables, right back at you.

And I'd rather have a fish I caught, killed, quickly and realtively painlessly, and cleaned and cooked myself, than have one slowly drowned ( yes u can drown fish) with millions of it's mates in a net for hours before lying in ice in a trawler for a week only to get "fresh this morning" stuck on it by some twat fishmonger.

I would'nt be concerned about the likes of me Rod fishing 4 or 5 times a year,weather permitting TLU..I don't keep undersized.. I have an issue with greedy dragnet fishing also.. Forcing the price up,and quite possibly eliminating one of my personal fave dishes from the menu within a few years, through overfishing in the North sea,being the main reason!

Hope that does'nt sound too shelfish of me.....

Boatraceface wrote:

Hope that does'nt sound too shelfish of me.....

Good lad

Always wanted to go deep-sea fishing, and by the way you guys are talking about it, I definately have to do it.

I did catch a 7 foot pike in the Mississippi River. That thing was mean. It took us almost two hours to reel it in. My buddy and I took turns. When we got it out on the bank, the thing flipped, snapped like nothing else I have ever seen. We didn't want to let it go, since we put up such a long fight and wanted to try to save parts of it. So my buddy went and got an ax out of his truck. We smacked it many times, but the ax bounced off his scales without making a dent. We dragged the thing in the back of his truck with rope, left it on his front lawn to die. The thing lived for three days, and it never quit being a mean bastard.

Have pictures of it, but don't know how to post them.

JHC

Now that is a cruel way to kill a fish. The most humane way (yes there is one!) is to club it just at the soft spot at the back of the head. That will shut down the brain and nervous system immediately.

Haven't enough scientists proven that the reason a fish fights back when hooked is because of the sensation of the line passing across the gills, not because they have any sensory feeling in their mouths and don't feel a hook?

Actually scientists haven't proven anything. Many of the currently published articles are based on flawed science. Work being done based upon aquaculture and, believe it or not, scientific sampling, is being used to defend a "no angling stance". I have now listened to two presentations by Dr. Steven Cooke from Carleton University in Ottawa who is researching ways to reduce fish stress from angling. According to him, there is new research being published in the very soon that is the closest thing ever to show that fish do feel pain while being hooked. This has been a long and heated battle between anglers and animals rights activists for years. His attitude is that there is too many other variables (social, environmental) to stop angling all together. Here in Canada, some of the most successful environmental groups (Trout Unlimited) were started by anglers who saw a need to protect the habitat of the fish they enjoy catching. So, as a responsible angler, I try to reduce injury and pain to fish by removing barbs from my hooks, releasing fish as fast as possible and if I do decide to keep anything, I kill it as fast and humanely as possible.

oldmonkey wrote: Now that is a cruel way to kill a fish. The most humane way (yes there is one!) is to club it just at the soft spot at the back of the head. That will shut down the brain and nervous system immediately.

Haven't enough scientists proven that the reason a fish fights back when hooked is because of the sensation of the line passing across the gills, not because they have any sensory feeling in their mouths and don't feel a hook?

We tried hitting it where you mentioned, but a gar has armour plating on it. And this thing wasn't snapping because of any hook stuck in it. . .the thing was a mean SOB. They are prehistoric type fish and kind of look like an alligator.

But I agree, I won't win any nature awards for killing it, but my buddy did some taxidermy and put it on the wall of his garage.

JHC

68Pontiac wrote:

oldmonkey wrote: Now that is a cruel way to kill a fish. The most humane way (yes there is one!) is to club it just at the soft spot at the back of the head. That will shut down the brain and nervous system immediately.

Haven't enough scientists proven that the reason a fish fights back when hooked is because of the sensation of the line passing across the gills, not because they have any sensory feeling in their mouths and don't feel a hook?

We tried hitting it where you mentioned, but a gar has armour plating on it. And this thing wasn't snapping because of any hook stuck in it. . .the thing was a mean SOB. They are prehistoric type fish and kind of look like an alligator.

But I agree, I won't win any nature awards for killing it, but my buddy did some taxidermy and put it on the wall of his garage.

JHC

Mean SOB? Or trying to survive after it was attacked?