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macojoe · 12-14-2003, 01:22 PM

Well my best day of fishing is, loading up the boat and headed out about 20 miles from Chatham. When I get there we start jigging for Cod. There are schools of Mackerel the size of an acre!! From time to time you see a bunch of fin’s and you think at first that there is a school of Sharks then you think no that is not a bunch of Sharks it is one a Baskin Shark got to be 20 + feet long, just floating around with its mouth wide open feeding!!
Then you get a hit, Wow it is bending the rod over and the reel is screaming! What a Cod this must be! Then just as you think the cod is coming to the top your rod doubles over and starts the reel screaming again, but it is not the same as before?? It is pulling out faster then anything you have ever encountered before! After about 10 min of fighting your fish comes to the top, it’s not the cod that you thought you had but a shark!! A Maco about 10 to 15 feet long!! It jumps out the water does a roll and is diving to the bottom again!! Your heart starts pumping like crazy!! You don’t want to lose this one, but how are you going to get this in the boat?? How are you going to kill it?? Will the line hold??
When all of the sudden it comes to the top again!! And does another jump straight out of the water followed by two more!! God let me catch this fish!!
After about an hour your 100 pound braid is still holding! And the fish is getting tired, I am now beginning to gain on it and about ten min later it is next to the boat!! What a fish I said!! But with no way to get it into the boat, no way to kill it, no way to sell it, I just let it go!! I and my buddy take a good look at it, he congratulates me and we cut it lose to live another day!
We finish the day with about 300 #’s of Cod and with sites of half a dozen Blue sharks, and on the way back we are about ten miles from shore we site about 6 whales one of which is just sitting there slapping his tale in that water!! What a site, what a day, a day that would give me my name of Macojoe and a day I will never forget!!

This is a true story from about 8 years ago!! With my friend Mark in his 25 foot Wellcraft Sportfisher.

12-14-2003, 01:22 PM	#7
macojoe Seal Control iTrader: (1) Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Caver, Ma. Posts: 3,875	Well my best day of fishing is, loading up the boat and headed out about 20 miles from Chatham. When I get there we start jigging for Cod. There are schools of Mackerel the size of an acre!! From time to time you see a bunch of fin’s and you think at first that there is a school of Sharks then you think no that is not a bunch of Sharks it is one a Baskin Shark got to be 20 + feet long, just floating around with its mouth wide open feeding!! Then you get a hit, Wow it is bending the rod over and the reel is screaming! What a Cod this must be! Then just as you think the cod is coming to the top your rod doubles over and starts the reel screaming again, but it is not the same as before?? It is pulling out faster then anything you have ever encountered before! After about 10 min of fighting your fish comes to the top, it’s not the cod that you thought you had but a shark!! A Maco about 10 to 15 feet long!! It jumps out the water does a roll and is diving to the bottom again!! Your heart starts pumping like crazy!! You don’t want to lose this one, but how are you going to get this in the boat?? How are you going to kill it?? Will the line hold?? When all of the sudden it comes to the top again!! And does another jump straight out of the water followed by two more!! God let me catch this fish!! After about an hour your 100 pound braid is still holding! And the fish is getting tired, I am now beginning to gain on it and about ten min later it is next to the boat!! What a fish I said!! But with no way to get it into the boat, no way to kill it, no way to sell it, I just let it go!! I and my buddy take a good look at it, he congratulates me and we cut it lose to live another day! We finish the day with about 300 #’s of Cod and with sites of half a dozen Blue sharks, and on the way back we are about ten miles from shore we site about 6 whales one of which is just sitting there slapping his tale in that water!! What a site, what a day, a day that would give me my name of Macojoe and a day I will never forget!! This is a true story from about 8 years ago!! With my friend Mark in his 25 foot Wellcraft Sportfisher.
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