We've had good luck with a cedar plug, too. I think it's appropriate, given the direction of this thread, to mention that the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale is that one starts "Once upon a time..." And the other starts, "Now, this is no shit..."!
Andy C&C 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 > On Jun 18, 2015, at 21:33, Jim Watts via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > We used a cedar plug trailing on a heavy mono line joined to surgical tubing > coming back from Hawaii last year, got a nice mahi and a nice albacore within > minutes. A spray bottle of vodka dispatched them amazingly quickly. One shot > into each gill and that was that. > https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/AAAAAAAACts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg > > > Jim Watts > Paradigm Shift > C&C 35 Mk III > Victoria, BC > >> On 18 June 2015 at 17:51, Frederick G Street via CnC-List >> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb nylon >> hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. >> >> Fred Street -- Minneapolis >> S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI >> >>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List >>> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. >>> >>> On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. >>> The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to >>> find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into >>> football sized roasts. >>> >>> On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with offshore >>> rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines from the two >>> rods from getting under the boat (a 46’ Barnett custom). The fishing line >>> was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 treble, the >>> lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, wahoo, and >>> some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung out at the >>> same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing tennis shoes >>> into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of fighting, we >>> landed the small tuna (the 70lb’r), the big one broke the line and got away. >>> >>> I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing >>> sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a >>> few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West >>> Coast. >>> >>> Martin DeYoung >>> Calypso >>> 1971 C&C 43 >>> Seattle >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Email address: >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom >> of page at: >> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom > of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >
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