Fishing

[Flench]

I hear ha Rich . I have never seen it jam kind of like my BAR 270 it has never never jamed .

[Curval]

Here's a little fishy that was caught a couple of weeks ago here:



For perspective:



Just shy of 1,300 lbs.

[Rich52]

Here's a little fishy that was caught a couple of weeks ago here:

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For perspective:

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Just shy of 1,300 lbs.

Thats a BFF! I couldnt kill such a fish.

[Flench]

I could not eather but I did give the king fish and red snapper hellllll when I was there . Maybe why there's a creal limite now , lol .
Any of you guy's been out of the Destin pass ? That's one bad place to be when the weather get's bad and your trying to get in . They even have a live web camera on it now .

[Rich52]

Yeah but the billfish are a different story. Since my kid was born I release all trophy fish now.

[Curval]

Thats a BFF! I couldnt kill such a fish.

I couldn't either.  In fact I personally am a bit pissed they killed this one.  The gene pool lost a great granddad. 

[Curval]

A while back a local guy caught this one, after the sharks had a go:



That's alot of sushi.

[Flench]

WOW . I tell ya those shark's are some thing else . I grew up with a guy that his father had put a bunch of old car's about 3 hour's out from the destin pass and we would get heavy into the red snapper and groper then here come the shark's and it was all over .

[mbailey]

A while back a local guy caught this one, after the sharks had a go:

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That's alot of sushi.

   that shark got about $750.00 worth of bluefin sushi..............

3 years ago off Mass, we nailed a 800lb bluefin, 4 hr fight, the mongers met us at the dock and we sold it for around 5k........Most of the $$$$ went to the Capt (my buddie) but we paid for the trip, and each got about $500 to take home

[fbWldcat]

Have you all (in the south) heard of the lakes around 1000+ acres harboring giant blue catfish as big as minivans? A few rumors around here include a guy on a dam building team's safety crew diving down and seeing these monstrosities. No reports or rumors about them eating people (so don't think that's where this is going), but it would be amazing to catch one. I fully believe the rumors, because dams are where food usually hangs out, the boil around dams creates an "eye" of water that is calm, and that the huge catfish can stay in and come out of to forage or wait for helpless prey. This should definitely allow for huge creatures which wouldn't be seen by the average joe, due to the dangers of dam waters.

Someday, I hope to get a huge pontoon boat, a rig like Jeremy Wade and River Monsters has, and catch one of those suckers. Set a new state record or something. It is a long shot, but I love to go ocean fishing, so it wouldn't be a rig for one purpose. Might catch the mighty great blue whale

If nothing else, it's a great way to scare brats out of the water. 

[Melvin]

Sorry for the re-post, but this is hilarious (and sad at the same time).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN2gMP3Q2Z4

[Tec]

Have you all (in the south) heard of the lakes around 1000+ acres harboring giant blue catfish as big as minivans? A few rumors around here include a guy on a dam building team's safety crew diving down and seeing these monstrosities.

I have heard that rumor come out of pretty much every body of water with a dam.  Some times it Flatheads the size of VW's, and sometimes it's giant Sturgeon.

Strangely enough the one person I've never heard anything about these monster dam dwellers from is my uncle... who is in fact one of those guys who does inspection dives on dams.

[fbWldcat]

I have heard that rumor come out of pretty much every body of water with a dam.  Some times it Flatheads the size of VW's, and sometimes it's giant Sturgeon.

Strangely enough the one person I've never heard anything about these monster dam dwellers from is my uncle... who is in fact one of those guys who does inspection dives on dams.

That is strange.

[Flench]

I have heard that rumor come out of pretty much every body of water with a dam.  Some times it Flatheads the size of VW's, and sometimes it's giant Sturgeon.

Strangely enough the one person I've never heard anything about these monster dam dwellers from is my uncle... who is in fact one of those guys who does inspection dives on dams.

I have heard the same thing about the divers insectiing the dams saying there as big a VW down there .

[homersipes]

Have you all (in the south) heard of the lakes around 1000+ acres harboring giant blue catfish as big as minivans? A few rumors around here include a guy on a dam building team's safety crew diving down and seeing these monstrosities. No reports or rumors about them eating people (so don't think that's where this is going), but it would be amazing to catch one. I fully believe the rumors, because dams are where food usually hangs out, the boil around dams creates an "eye" of water that is calm, and that the huge catfish can stay in and come out of to forage or wait for helpless prey. This should definitely allow for huge creatures which wouldn't be seen by the average joe, due to the dangers of dam waters.

my folks used to live near lak palestine in texas and some relative of mine used to be a diver cleaning the dams and they said there were monster cats large enough to swallow a person.  How much truth there is in it who knows.  Here in vermont we had a pirana caught in the connecticut river a couple years back, nobody knows where it came from was probably released by an exowner, but it survived the winter??  Now they are talking about the snakehead coming up this way.  who knows really what is in any lakes and rivers.