Solo? I’ll never understand people that do shit like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
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Solo? I’ll never understand people that do shit like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Yeah, just a guy swimming alone about a mile out in the ocean. I'm glad I was paying attention.
No buoy or anything? In sharky water? I guess he likes to live dangerously.
was there perhaps an island full of chicks with free beer somewhere in his general direction of travel?
“I swear, it’s just a little farther this way, follow me!”Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
Not me, this was shared with me.
Hey fishy fishy fishy…
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workin' the tides
Speaking of free meals, did y’all see this from a couple weeks ago? Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in NC would-be winners lost out on over $3MM 1st place prize because their over 600lb marlin was bitten by shark.
Second place was almost 200lbs smaller and took the prize.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fis...ck-tournament/
https://imagez-tmz-com.cdn.ampprojec...2366f80_md.jpg
You can't win if your fish gets bitten by a shark even though it still weighs more than second place? That's bullshit.
And it sure took a crowd to catch that fish, geez.
Right!?! The team filed a grievance; no shit they did.
MJ’s boat fishes that tournament every year, the fuel they must burn is insane.
Yeah, that sucks. What’s the reasoning? Is there an anti-chumming rule or something? Like they consider the presence of sharks to be evidence of cheating?
I saw on Wicked Tuna one time they had a fish get the back quarter taken by a shark. They had to throw the rest back, couldn't keep it because apparently without a tail they can't officially measure it and therefore can't prove it's legal size. Wonder if there was some quirky regulation like that in play here too...
Maybe they claim it’s not a “fair catch” because the fish was wounded?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
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Originally Posted by JayPowHound
I can see either of these being a valid reason, but I’m guessing it’s closer to Jimmy’s rationale for this instance.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
I’d be $3MM kinds of pissed off though for sure.
Thems the jackpot rules, always has been.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
A fish that got chomped is likely easier to land.
Between this and the cheating walleye tournament team I’m learning a lot about fishing this summer.
“EVERY FUCKING ONE!?!”
Leave its head in the judge’s bed, Godfather style.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Or an AKPM pickup line.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
“Would you like this delicious dish?”
You know Hooper dies in the book, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
He also bones Brody’s wife iircQuote:
Originally Posted by Diamond Joe
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Serves him right, he fucked Brody’s wife.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diamond Joe
He fucked Brody's wife so the shark did the Chief a solid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diamond Joe
I've reeled in too many tuna like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by spanky
If a too large fish gets bit in halfQuote:
Originally Posted by spanky
Does that make it a keeper?
I find Greenland sharks to be fascinating. They are big, live a crazy long time and we are still guessing at a lot of the details about them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
And they look creepy as hell
I think so. Although, that half of fish might still be too large. I’d hope the DEC wouldn’t hassle you for keeping it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
I look at it like getting denied a layup, or having the perfect FWT line and at the end knocked down by sluff, or almost sinking that golf put but only to have a squirrel grab your ball before the hole.
Hitting a home run ball and the ball hitting a bird and not clearing the wall.
I could go on.
The task was reeling in a fish. If they reel in half a fish the task was not complete. Nature is the X factor.
Or reeling in a dead fish, or foul hooking one. Both don't count in contests or jackpots.
That is one weird ass fish! 200-500 years old?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
and most likely blind, yet somehow it is still capable of inhaling a whole deer intact?... sounds like a fuckin' land shark to me.
fact.
fact.
It’s an Icelandic delicacy.
The flesh is toxic… but if you bury it in the sand and let it ferment for several weeks, then hang it to dry for ~6 months, and *then* aren’t deterred by the ammonia stench, it’s… edible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
There’s a little museum on the topic on an incredibly scenic day road trip from Reykjavík:
https://bjarnarhofn.is
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Iceland was the only place Bourdain literally gagged on the food, I think it was the shark that did him in.
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Originally Posted by Core Shot
Nope. Needs a head and tail to measure, otherwise not legal to keep regardless of size.Quote:
Originally Posted by spanky
Think about it for a minute and it makes sense. If you could keep oversized fish as long as the chunk you have measures ok what would stop people from chopping off the tails and tossing them back..
Captain Slowly wins again.Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
That’s well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenny Satch
This thread has sent me down about a half dozen Wikipedia spirals in the last couple days. Sleeper Sharks may not be dangerous to us but they are sure as shit creepy.
It’s a timesuck in the greatest of TRG traditions. Just wait till Shark Week kicks off in a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski