Coolest, Scariest, Wierdest, etc... Thing or things you saw at the Canyon lst. Yr.!!!

[squirtis]

Coolest thing would have to be last year in the Hudson Canyon getting my first swordfish....and an hour later getting my first "real" swordfish at 250!! I was on a high for a while....

Scariest thing would have to be the same trip watching an 800lb or so Tiger Shark eating a turtle that had to be 400+ pounds made my hair stand up a little

Weirdest thing...small fast boats near big tanker type boats


Curtis

[fmoore]

speaking of the poop thing we had an anonymousn SFC member take a crap in a bucket in the cockpit!!! u no who r u lol

My dad does that all the time. He lets me take pictures of him to show my friends how weirrrddd he is. I think he likes the attention

[ElMar2530]

Coolest - Seeing a Giant Blue Fin Tuna eat a bluefish whole in mid air a few minutes after we started setting our first slick during a Montauk Marine Basin Shark tournament.

Scariest - hearing the outriggers build up static electricity before a squall hit and the surface of the water turned white with 50knt + winds and the sky turned green.

[Hudson]

Last year in the Dip we were sharing some ice with a buddy who ran out. We got real close and tossed some bags over to him. As he past by us, not 20 feet away a 200 or so blue attacked a Green Machine he happened to be dragging and put on a nice display before spitting the hook. That was sick.

Also saw a sub out east of the Tails pushing a massive wake. I couldn't tell how fast it was going, but it was definately movin. I couldnt believe how big it was too. Needless to say, I got the hell out of there.

Brad

[SAXIS ISLANDER]

Out of Wachapreague a few years back we approached what looked like a school of tailing fish. It was late September and a few whites were around. Jeezus there were twenty here, fifty over there, from about 100 yards from the pit it looked like we were about to be covered up.

Trolled right through a school of Dole Pineapples that had evidently fallen off a passing ship in the prior night's wind. Free gaffed twenty two of them. Stuck them up on the "Wachapreague Marina" fish hanging station and had our pix taken with them.

Made a bunch of boat drinks on the way in.

[jemche]

scariest thing.

fishing out of hatteras. memorial day weekend with my dad. caught about a million big dolphin and decided to move off a little in hopes of a biillfish. perfect day. sunny, flat calm. and warm. NO BOATS AROUND. we raised a sail and hooked it about five different times and it kept coming back to bite never hooked it... well i look down and the compass was about 50 degrees off from the gps. so we stop worrying about the sail and pull out a handheld gps. that is reading totally different than the other two. so we look at the radar and we see a boat on the edge of the screen. we pick up and run to it. luckily it was a sportfisherman. once we got about 2 miles in every thing matched up again. really wierd.

coolest thing. we were fishing a wreck off of va and saw what looked like 2 giant shark fins on top of the water. turned out to be a big manta ray. wingspan was prob. around 15 feet. 6 cobias underneath it. pitched an eel and bucktail. they never ate. but they ray hovered about ten feet in front of the boat for about thirty seconds with the cobia underneath of them.

[fmoore]

This was pretty cool:

We saw the mola in the top picture near the Isles of Shoals only one day after we saw the mola in the second picture near Plum Island, 13 miles SE.

At first, we thought it was a lost shark but we don't really have sharks with brown fins up here. I was extremely confuzzled.

My dad tried to catch it while I was yelling at him because I really didn't want to be running after an ocean sunfish for half the day

[hotrodmarlin]

coolest thing: December Carolina Beach NC. we were coming from the stream and saw hundreds maybe thousands of fins cutting the water. Huge basking sharks! many were as long as the boat and fins as far as you could see in every direction. We climbed in the tower of the 30' Topaz and watched while they swam around

scariest: my buddy falling off the boat in Shallote inlet.

[offshore]

Ive done the scariest thing already but the wildest thing was Out of Islamorada. We had been picking up a lot of Dolphin on this trip and were about 15 miles off the reef. Of course we were looking for floating objects when we spot a few birds diving on what looked like a large suit case. As we got closer it was a four foot by four foot cube covered with burlap!!!! Needless to say we only made one pass on it and high tailed it to a different location!!!!!!! You can probraly guess what it was...... mark

[Satans_Chariot]

yeah, pay day