Offshore Fishing: Thursday July 15th
As a member of Academia I am following the protocol of smallest publishable unit. I feel that the two days of fishing were significantly different to warrant two seperate reports.
Line Tangling Miss-Adventures
Hoffman, S. M., J. Ullman, and J.T. Martin
Despite our best efforts to reduce the number of people on the boat by choosing a mid-week trip the boat was quite full. To make matters worse seas were exceptionally flat so nobody got seasick and forgot to fish.
Snapper fishing was very slow over the course of the eight hour trip Pumpkin and I only caught two keeper (16+ inch) snappers each. Sadly, everone did catch many 15.5inch snappers. The deckhand that was measuring the fish insisted that they should be measured from the fork of the tail and not the tip. That extra half an inch or so whould have really helped fill our icechest. I was luck enough to be posted next to somebody's wife who constantly tangled me up by not watching where she put her line.
Fishing off the back of the boat was virtually non-existant, One barely legal King, was caught by someone we didn't know. Some non-keeper Dorado and a small ling were also caught and released by others.
Call for Comments:
I fully expect the other contributing authors to elaborate on this story.
Line Tangling Miss-Adventures
Hoffman, S. M., J. Ullman, and J.T. Martin
Despite our best efforts to reduce the number of people on the boat by choosing a mid-week trip the boat was quite full. To make matters worse seas were exceptionally flat so nobody got seasick and forgot to fish.
Snapper fishing was very slow over the course of the eight hour trip Pumpkin and I only caught two keeper (16+ inch) snappers each. Sadly, everone did catch many 15.5inch snappers. The deckhand that was measuring the fish insisted that they should be measured from the fork of the tail and not the tip. That extra half an inch or so whould have really helped fill our icechest. I was luck enough to be posted next to somebody's wife who constantly tangled me up by not watching where she put her line.
Fishing off the back of the boat was virtually non-existant, One barely legal King, was caught by someone we didn't know. Some non-keeper Dorado and a small ling were also caught and released by others.
Call for Comments:
I fully expect the other contributing authors to elaborate on this story.
posted by steven-hoffman | 1:38 PM
1 Comments:
Strangely enough I didn't see anyone catch vermillion or lane snappers at all
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