Get Baked and Go Fishing

[maryjaneismyfre]

Youtube counts...when you cant get to the water! My fishing time minimal these days, too much weed, so I consider a trip to the local aquarium store a fishing session these days.. Mayb squeeze another tuna trip before they are gone for the winter.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Youtube counts...when you cant get to the water! My fishing time minimal these days, too much weed, so I consider a trip to the local aquarium store a fishing session these days.. Mayb squeeze another tuna trip before they are gone for the winter.

when i was a kid, next door neighbors son had an aquarium with big gold fish in it.... good luck with the yellowfin! i think the very biggest we caught were in upper 60s...like to try them on slightly lighter tackle if i go back. they were ready for marlin and sails.

 

[DoobieDuck]

when i was a kid, next door neighbors son had an aquarium with big gold fish in it.... good luck with the yellowfin! i think the very biggest we caught were in upper 60s...like to try them on slightly lighter tackle if i go back. they were ready for marlin and sails.

Great to see you still playing them. Yellow fins have to be really exciting, please don't break line. Have a great day..DD..

 

[maryjaneismyfre]

Spoke to a mate out today, they found the fish! Maybe get a gap now harvests are over to go out...Said they were all smaller class fish...60's...kgs.. Last week they caught a 92kg..202lb! They fishing big tiagra 80w's and 50LRS's for them, not playing games..80lb rigs..200lb leaders..some southern bluefin and big eye also hooked last week by different crew over 100kg so you never know what grabs you out there in your chum line...4 or 5 years back we hooked what can only be a MOFO bigeye or cow bluefin, dragged the boat into the current for 17 nautical miles while spending most its time swimming back to the bottom at 500m deep and we never got to see it in 4and half hours of fight on 130lb marlin rig..skipper and his wife fought the fish and he landed a few grander marlin and he was like that thing was like no other he'd hooked before..who knows..hahahah thats what keeps you going back..among others..

 

[maryjaneismyfre]

Last one the SBT..not as big as the Atlantic BF get, but last 2 or 3 seasons the first time they caught here in 50-60 years, as a result of conservation efforts by the Aussies and NZ's and Japs..

All pics from : https://www.facebook.com/marlincontrol/ "Skiboat Mobile" the local skiboat comms station on land this side of the world..we have no coast guard but the most treacherous ocean except for maybe tasmania being worse..all sea rescue or safety is publicly funded or volunteer run basically here in deep dark africa..But the fishings rad! And we build our boats to take it..

 

[flylowgethigh]

This fish I had to catch in my smaller pond, with a .22 rifle. Grass carp, and it was soo cute a few years ago when I stocked it. The kid is 4' tall...

There is still one in the big pond, but so are the big cats which kinda look the same when they come up to feed. I don't want to shoot the catfish

 

[armedoldhippy]

skipper and his wife fought the fish and he landed a few grander marlin and he was like that thing was like no other he'd hooked before..who knows..hahahah thats what keeps you going back..among others..

hell yes! those that kick your ass are the best reason to go out again! "i'll teach YOU, you big SOB..."

 

[PanchoVerde]

Caught on a Rapala Skitterpop, 4 pound test line, 6 foot ultralight with fast taper tip. Released to live another day.

 

[armedoldhippy]

love watching them things blow up on a topwater plug! lost several big ones this spring on huge streamer flies i tied. i think i used too large of a hook, could not sink it in with a flyrod...get a jump or two and they came unbuttoned.

 

[PanchoVerde]

Nothing better than ANY fish on top water, but especially smallies. Love their acrobatics and you have to keep that line tight or bye bye.

 

[maryjaneismyfre]

love watching them things blow up on a topwater plug! lost several big ones this spring on huge streamer flies i tied. i think i used too large of a hook, could not sink it in with a flyrod...get a jump or two and they came unbuttoned.

Thinner wire hook, big barb...if on a plug theres another trick to stick those jumpers we figured out..hahaha but not my trick so leave that for PM if the thin wire big hook, big barb not work..but like spinning where you wind him tight then stick him, strip him till rod is bending, then stick him and that should get em stuck..

Fish on topwater is mad...Yellowtail my favorite, nothing like those big white lips of a big yellowtail as he tries to swallow your topwater plug..and then that explosion! But on topwater, I dont care if it a tuna or a mullet..its all crazy fun! Even feeding the fish in my tank, letting little worms float on top and seeing the glowlight tetras spot the prize beat the minnows and zoom so fast across the tank and smash that thing, like a true miniature gamefish..Love it!