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Old 08-11-2009, 06:10 PM   #1
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Swords: Life on the line

Anyone else excited for this one? Premieres tonight at 9 on Dicovery.

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Old 08-11-2009, 06:34 PM   #2
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I am interested, i hope they show her getting arrested.

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Old 08-11-2009, 07:16 PM   #3
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Not really...
Long lining leaves a bad taste in my mouth....
I have a self imposed Swordfish ban (unless I know where it came from; dart or R&R)

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Old 08-11-2009, 07:29 PM   #4
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I hope they never do a show on surfcasting new england... when spots are crowded on august full moon weeknights, the last thing we would need is promotion.
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Old 08-11-2009, 07:29 PM   #5
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Toby what's up with that hat? Did you lose a bet and had to post that as your avatar:
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Old 08-11-2009, 08:01 PM   #6
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watching it now... what ever happend to the lobster one?
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Old 08-11-2009, 08:07 PM   #7
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Anyone else excited for this one? Premieres tonight at 9 on Dicovery.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/swords/
I think it might be interesting.
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Old 08-11-2009, 08:15 PM   #8
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I hope they never do a show on surfcasting new england... when spots are crowded on august full moon weeknights, the last thing we would need is promotion.
I can't wait to see the movie "Montauk Rocks" come out .

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ad.php?t=55068

It's already a zoo out there. You can usually find some room though. Plus, the googs make for good entertainment .
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Old 08-11-2009, 08:20 PM   #9
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"if they hook a shark they have to let it go"

Yet they stuck and gaffed the mako?

Yeah.

This show is a pile of crap so far.

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Old 08-11-2009, 09:19 PM   #10
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you know what happened to the lobster show... After deadliest catch, how can you have a show about fetching lobsters in "treacherous" 8 foot seas with 70 degree water 5 miles from touristville? Maybe if this show came out first, but honestly... that show blew.
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Old 08-11-2009, 10:26 PM   #11
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Like to see local boats out of my home town, New bedford on tv. But didnt know newbedford was still NE largest fishing port?
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Old 08-12-2009, 04:13 AM   #12
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I caught that too but he said that after all the blood in the water before the shark even came on the boat

lame.

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"if they hook a shark they have to let it go"

Yet they stuck and gaffed the mako?

Yeah.

This show is a pile of crap so far.
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Old 08-12-2009, 04:15 AM   #13
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Chronicle had a show on last week re NB. I believe they quoted that if you ate any of the dozen or so fish they mentioned in PARIS that chances are it came out of NB. Sid Wainer is the biggest distributor now they said. Something around 60% of restaurant seafood in the US comes out of NB.

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Like to see local boats out of my home town, New bedford on tv. But didnt know newbedford was still NE largest fishing port?
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Old 08-12-2009, 06:07 AM   #14
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Not really...
Long lining leaves a bad taste in my mouth....
I have a self imposed Swordfish ban (unless I know where it came from; dart or R&R)
Me, too. Few people realize one of the best swordfish grounds in the world was the water between BI and Nomans and out 10-15 miles. As a kid I watched 300-500lb fish brought to the dock by boats out for just the day (harpooned). Long lining put an end to all that and wiped out the great white marlin fishery we had 20 years ago to boot. Just another commercial interest/fishery management/greed horror story.
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Old 08-12-2009, 06:20 AM   #15
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I only watched because I was fog bound... that Mako didnt live.... what about the baby sword Chompers caught... not legal.. but dead.. alot of waste... too much blood for the average folk.. show wont be as popular as the crabbers..

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Old 08-12-2009, 06:45 AM   #16
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Wasn't too impressed - may watch on occasion and might not.

I also have a self-imposed sword ban. Another case of too many hooks in the water.

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Old 08-12-2009, 07:00 AM   #17
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Gaff and release a baby sword, and gaff and presumably cut loose a pup mako with 3 gaffs in it in the first 15 min.

I'll watch out of curiosity, but longlining sucks.
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Old 08-12-2009, 07:41 AM   #18
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longlines - another indescriminate killer... that boy from nc - not too bright, 55' to the banks...betcha they did'nt buy many episodes.

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Old 08-12-2009, 08:10 AM   #19
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Thought it was OK, nothing great. May give it a few more episodes but will prob. get bored. However, I do love swordfish.

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Old 08-12-2009, 08:44 AM   #20
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I didn't get a chance to see it - I'll have to try and catch the repeat but it doesn't sound like I missed much

My wife and I have refused to buy or eat sword for years - I'd always opt for mako which we felt was a lot better if I could find it - but we haven't bought it either given the state of that fishery

Here's an image I have from the old Angler's Art website circa 1911 of a sword catch at BI - I've got another - if I can find it......with a gentleman who looks remarkably like my great-grandfather (who spent lots of time on the Block during that period)

Hell, he probably spent time drinking nickel beers with Joe Lyon's great grandpa at the National there on the Island back in the day...

Pretty disheartening when you stop to realize what we once had and is no more...
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Old 08-12-2009, 09:19 AM   #21
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On one hand, I like to watch ANYONE fish, on the other, I hate seeing such waste as the small sword and the shark. I was on a party boat in the keys a while back catching mostly yellowtail. The mates set up on a shark, battled it for almost 2 hrs, then gaffed it in the tail, then the gills, then the line snapped and i watched a beautiful 11ft hammerhead drift to the bottom bleeding out. They were pissed when I told them they werent getting a dime for a tip from me. It was the last time I did a party boat thing.
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Old 08-12-2009, 10:32 AM   #22
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On one hand, I like to watch ANYONE fish, on the other, I hate seeing such waste as the small sword and the shark. I was on a party boat in the keys a while back catching mostly yellowtail. The mates set up on a shark, battled it for almost 2 hrs, then gaffed it in the tail, then the gills, then the line snapped and i watched a beautiful 11ft hammerhead drift to the bottom bleeding out. They were pissed when I told them they werent getting a dime for a tip from me. It was the last time I did a party boat thing.
Good for you! I gave up swordfish long ago. I eat Bass and farm raised Salmon.

No boat, back in the suds.
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Old 08-12-2009, 01:15 PM   #23
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I only watched because I was fog bound... that Mako didnt live.... what about the baby sword Chompers caught... not legal.. but dead.. alot of waste... too much blood for the average folk.. show wont be as popular as the crabbers..
agreed, its one thing to see a full pot of crab come over the rail, but seeing swords and big tuna get dragged on board bleeding will put a lot of viewers off quickly...
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Old 08-12-2009, 04:20 PM   #24
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It's also one thing to haul crab DURING dangerous seas, and another to finish hauling fish before a storm hits.

This will rank up along with the Lobstermen saga and the Tuna Wranglers......
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Old 08-12-2009, 09:07 PM   #25
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Oh, and if you didn't hear it the tenth time.......If we don't catch fish I'll lose the boat, business, house, truck on and on and on.....

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Old 08-13-2009, 06:45 AM   #26
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a lot of false drama. way too many commercails and just brutal. Nice gaff job on the mako. the tuna was cool though. Dont eat sword either and yes long liners suck.
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Old 08-13-2009, 08:15 AM   #27
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I spent a year and a half of my life creating a video (Gladiator of the Deep/Death of a Resource) that showed how destructive longlining and ocean drift gillnetting was to swordfish, sharks, turtles and sea birds. The RFA was instrumental in getting the current time and territory closures in Florida that has been responsible for much of the swordfish comeback...I have NO use for either non-selective method of fishing.

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Old 08-13-2009, 09:25 AM   #28
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not that great of a first epidsode. baby Mako gaffed... baby sword dead...

I'd like to see a show of draggers killing 10,000 pounds of fluke to make their 1,000 pounds of Jumbos NOW THATS A SHOW WORTH WATCHING!!!

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Old 08-13-2009, 10:08 AM   #29
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Old 08-13-2009, 10:19 AM   #30
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Mayb they should do an expose' of the destructive nature of the commercial industries that make their living off of the ocean.
No favoritism, cover each industry equally, so that you see the REAL price we pay for seafood.

It could cover so much territory, and let us know about the seafood we eat, where is is harvested, and the methods involved in harvesting.
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