Catch of the day [Fishing]

[Bfd70]

[Giles]

What a beaut…...

[jordanscollected]

Smallmouth are my favorite fish to catch. They fight like they are 3x that size.

[Bfd70]

Fun day. Drift boat and a 7wt fly rod. He’s 14 and had his work cut out for him.

[Giles]

Getting ready…..

View from the apartment - there are Blue Fin Tuna busting just out from the point behind the rods- seriously…..

[goosehd]

Super happy and excited for you G!  Give em hell!!!

[jordanscollected]

I hope you catch 1 at least @Giles. Tell me about the technique to wrap around the crank and back to the eyelet when storing.? When you have time of course

[dinobarnesberlin]

Attack !!!!

[Giles]

@jordanscollected:

I hope you catch 1 at least @Giles. Tell me about the technique to wrap around the crank and back to the eyelet when storing.? When you have time of course

To keep the braid to leader knot (FGKnot) outside the tip ring, we just take the leader down to the crank and then hook the rear hook off the foot of the bottom ring.

FG knot, not pretty but amazing strength….

[Giles]

The morning light…..

[Giles]

Come here fuckers…...

@steelworker You took delivery of these for me a few years ago and handed them to me when we met up for lunch, I'm hoping to christen it this week.  I upgraded the hook…...The Tuna coming out here at the moment are averaging 140lb  :o

[Giles]

Fishless today, saw plenty hitting bait (flying fish being their preferred delicay here), and one of about 30 or 40kg went airborne after my stick bait, but it missed…..

But a magnificent day with nature out on the water.

I'll post a few pics tomorrow.

But we are out with the commercial tuna fishermen at 04:00 in the morning to do some live-baiting before it gets light at 06:00 and start popping, and I need some shut-eye...

Well, OK, just the one.  As we left tonight and the sea was boiling and the birds were bombing, but we needed to get home.....You can't see that in my amateur-hour iPhone photo, but it was truly majestic - nature well and truly being nature....

[goosehd]

Poems could be written about that view.  Thank you for sharing!

[Giles]

We left here at 04:30 and were met by a man with a gun.  Luckily we had no drugs or refugee's on us.

Have just got back for a 3 hour sleep before we go out again.  We had 3, well Szymon did, I was Norma-no-mates…..

[dinobarnesberlin]

???

[jordanscollected]

Superb photos Giles. That looks like one heck of a fight… for his rod and maybe his life as much as to land the fish.

[steelworker]

Get some, @Giles

[Giles]

Today, I had a 40, a 60 and a 70 kg…

This is the 60:

[goosehd]

^^^^^^Cool as hell and great smile!!!  How was the fight?

[Paul9221]

Look at the size of that thing!

Not being a fisherman myself, what are the logistics of this?  I mean, you're not near home, right?  If you were, you could chop that thing up into steaks and freeze them. What do you do with a catch that size when you're on vacation?

P.S. I love that sunset picture!  That could be on one of those "Shot with an iPhone" billboards!