What Happened??

[OffTheHookB&T]

A joke I started making early this season when I had a couple trips with no billfish, but plenty of mahi. I told everyone that I've taken up Mahi fishing and if we happen on some whites thats just a bonus. Glass half full my friends

[gottaflylee]

first of all, i dont think there is anything wrong with being cynical. its a greek word meaning doubt. thats all. i think alot of people get awfully offended on here sometimes just by being asked a question. and the minute you ask that question, and your not in their little group with the right visor and t-shirt, bam.....your a hater. i see more and more people thinking every question asked is hate mail. c,mon guys. i go fishing with a bunch of guys and we dont sit around high fiveing each other all day long. we tease each other, but we all know each other too. this is a big site but it sometimes seems like every month there has to be a group hug........."cant we all just agree?" ok, back to my little world. dont disturb it. i read that thread and i just dont see it as hate mail to doubt the guy. personally, i dont know either way but as long as this type of response is recurrent guys will say less and less. so you know what happened? nothing........unless we continue to do this every time some one asks a question. i dont recall anyone calling the guy names, they only asked a question. lets not start crowd mentality where if you ask something......your a hater. jmo, and it doesnt make me a hater to say it.

hubris look around you and open your mind. you for sure have a different way of looking at things. I think Chuck was using that thread as an illustration, but if you look over the whole board, there had been some posting happening that is in my opinion has been a little over the top. Now you may not see it but some of us that have been here for a few years, remember how it was before you and the other 10,000 people came on the board. Now don't think I'm busting your chops, cause I'm not. I am just trying to get you to see where my reply was coming from and where I think chuck was coming from. You have let me see more than once another with your replys a diffrent way to look at things, this time I'm trying to let you see another way to look at something...

[3ccc's]

i was out at the trunk last sunday and saw what seemed to be blue fin pushing bait its funny this thread came up because my crew and i thought the fish looked like slightly off or more robust than most blues,needless to say i could not get them to bite.big eyes at the trunk is possible in my book had them last year in 40 fathoms.

[Captain Brian]

Well said Chuck I can't agree more with you. If you recall we had our first Blue Marlin on the Jersey Devil a few weeks back, it was one of the greatest feelings that my crew and I have experienced and we have been fishing collectively over 100 years. The best was that I shared it with my father who is 71. It was a tuna trip in which we had tuna bites without a tuna hitting the deck but it didn't matter because of the experience/adventure that we had with the marlin. I have caught a few marlin over the years but none will be burned into my mind like the one from my boat in our waters.

The thing that gets me about this fish is that when we tell people that we caught it on a green machine let alone a green machine spreader bar the "professionals" turn their noses up like it would only be a good fish if it were caught on one of our ballyhoos or a spanich mackeral that was rigged to perfection. Either way we had an experience that will last the rest of my life as well as my crew and my father.

So we will continue our voyages offshore to experience the ocean and all it has to offer for the rest of my days and I hope to pass the experiences, exploration and knowledge to my son and his crews to come.

[OffTheHookB&T]

Well said Chuck I can't agree more with you. If you recall we had our first Blue Marlin on the Jersey Devil a few weeks back, it was one of the greatest feelings that my crew and I have experienced and we have been fishing collectively over 100 years. The best was that I shared it with my father who is 71. It was a tuna trip in which we had tuna bites without a tuna hitting the deck but it didn't matter because of the experience/adventure that we had with the marlin. I have caught a few marlin over the years but none will be burned into my mind like the one from my boat in our waters.

The thing that gets me about this fish is that when we tell people that we caught it on a green machine let alone a green machine spreader bar the "professionals" turn their noses up like it would only be a good fish if it were caught on one of our ballyhoos or a spanich mackeral that was rigged to perfection. Either way we had an experience that will last the rest of my life as well as my crew and my father.

So we will continue our voyages offshore to experience the ocean and all it has to offer for the rest of my days and I hope to pass the experiences, exploration and knowledge to my son and his crews to come.

Congratulations Brian, thanks for sharing your accomplishment. You gonna be down during Striper season??
Oh, and I supply some of the top Pros in the area and you'd be suprised what the have hidden on their boats
Also, the real pros don't care if you caught a blue on a rattletrap, the point is you caught the top dog. Nice work buddy