Pic - Had em eating out of our scuppers

[Squidnation]

chewing the letters off the boat. You heard em all before. But I just found a pic that really shows it. This is from the Dreaming On Sportfishing World Tour Blog

http://dreaminonsportfishingworldtou...-its-bill.html



This "Blue" charged the Boat and ran it's Bill up into the exhaust so far that she got stuck. Marlin cannot swim in reverse, so she continued to swim forward and only getting stuck worse. We finally pulled her out, tagged her and watched her swim away wondering "What the Hell was that?"

[jbonvetti]

Check out the video title Gannet Sportfishing on YouTube....shows a blue one jumping into the transom

[Squidnation]

Check out the video title Gannet Sportfishing on YouTube....shows a blue one jumping into the transom

no link joe

[HOLWACHAGOT]

"Swimming up your Scuppers" is right! Cool pic Bill.

Here's The Sniper link I believe was mentioned above...Curiosity got the best of me and it's too wild not to post.
Holwachagot

[Van Wildonher]

Why did they just leave it to die?

[Squidnation]

Why did they just leave it to die?

That fish was deader then a doornail and undersize. Nothing else you can do but cut it off.

[jbonvetti]

It is terrible that they just had to cut the fish off, But from the story I was told is that along with being undersized they were also fishing a release tourney and would have been DQ'ed for bringing the fish in

[Captain Fred Archer]

Yikes! Been there, done that. The wildest case I ever saw of that was a whitey down on La Guaria bank in Venezuela. I was fishing with Stewart Cambell and Barkey on Stewart's classic 38 Merrit, Chunda. The fishing back then was off the charts and we were dealing with many multiples, sometimes consisting of whites, sails and even a blue or two mixed in. It was glorious Pandemonium!

This one insane white came charging amidships and Barkey couldn't spin her of its way because we had other fish on. The fish leapt from way out there and "bam!", slammed his bill right through the side of the salon well above the gunnels. Ran it completely through, the fish hung down thrashing for a second and then his bill AND the top of his head broke off and the fish wound up back in the water!

They sawed the head and pointy ends of the bill off, sanded everything down and coated it with spar varnish. Heck, it's probably still there in the original Chunda, along with other bills that were driven through that boat in various locations that they did the same thing with.

Man, what a scene! Such were the wild and wooly early days on La Guaria that I was so lucky to take part in.

Duck!

[Patudo]

That big Garlington was sucking in so many fish when I was there that year, it was like the Pied Piper. Not quite sure why but I did feel at times it was almost better to turn around and go somewhere else if it was on the bank with you.

I wish I'd snapped a photo of their transom later that year when they passed by Madeira. It was abused.


There they are screaming on by us in the channel between Santo Antao and Sao Vicente.