you should have cut the line when you first saw he was tail wrapped. Its not just “the way it goes” as you claim. You saw the fish was rapped and you killed it! No ifs ands or but about it. You had the option to release it when you first saw that it was hung by the tail. Next time, boat the fish and eat it!
Scumking…he was already dead when i had confirmation he was wrapped. You don’t cut the line when the fish is 500’ below the boat where you can’t see anything, he very well could be playing oppossum.
Hey Brad,
I’m not sure if we’ll be down or not. I will be trying everything in my power to get down there as much as possible between now and then(weather permitting). Have you guys had a chance to get out yet? Win anything on the run this past weekend?
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Ethan, The run was fun. Only event was that Wade lost his outboard. I dived and found it Sunday between Geddy’s place and Chris’s place. Look on the freshwater reports and see the 84 lbs. flathead.
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”
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Brad I heard that is was caught up by ZigZag…definitely a keeper… Would be a keeper for sure. I believe on rod n reel it would be a state record flathead. State record is 79.
spend less time measuring the fish and more getting him released cause he looks pretty and kicken when he got boatside in the first set of pictures
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Will not necessarily at you but…
I had to physically put him in that position. He was dead when he came up. He was measured during the 30min reviving time. Fish die, it happens. Didn’t try to kill it, didn’t want to, it just happened. Fish die all the time by crews with much more experience than mine.
I wasn’t out after marlin, he got after me. I didn’t have a Accurate 130W with 400lb mono to winch him in. I sure wasn’t bringing a green fish to the boat with a green angler, green leaderman. No fish is worth endagering someone that isn’t ready. I can’t drive the boat, leader the marlin and fight it. Wasn’t gonna chase a fish that after the inital run never got more than 75yd from the boat. Just kept 30+ pressure on him as much as possible. Fish had other ideas. The only thing I would have done different was plane the fish sooner once he went down. We did that, but not with reckless abandonment.
Everyone that thinks that just because someone isn’t a CF legend, a charter captain, or they personally know them and their 1 million offshore hours, they must automatically do something wrong. That attitude is crap and just because this fish happened to die, doesn’t mean that the next 30 want be just fine.
these are the first two pics we got of the fish d1ck head… so unless this was a magic marlin that swims around backwards all the time that fish was dead… we held him beside the boat as we idled along for 30 minutes… his gills were not even moving when we finnally let him go… but you are prolly right… we all need to take a marlin CPR class so we can bring them back to life…
quote:Originally posted by Lil 2 Sleepy
Everyone that thinks that just because someone isn't a CF legend, a charter captain, or they personally know them and their 1 million offshore hours, they must automatically do something wrong. That attitude is crap and just because this fish happened to die, doesn't mean that the next 30 want be just fine.
While this is true to an extint you also have to understand that when 3 recreatrional crews float 3 small blues in one weekend, people that care about these fish get agitated.
It’s not your fault the other 2 boats couldn’t get their fish to the boat fast enough either, but all 3 crews will probably catch heat because of it.
Each incident builds on the other.
Sucks about the fish, but maybe we’ll all learn something because of it.
Fish Die it is unfortunately part of the game. Just because we happen to know about 3 dying over the last weekend doesn’t mean that all of them didn’t do their best to keep from killing them. If it wasn’t for recreational fisherman and the dollars that they spend and donate noone would be trying to help preserve these fish and they would likely be commericially fished out.
Maybe I’m simple minded but I’ll just take Sleepy’s word for it that he was DOA and move on…
