Can I borrow..... - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Tattoo · 08-01-2002, 06:52 AM

A tuna rod from someone? PLEASE?!?

.....and it's only a mile from home.....I gotta have a a better change than them scientists.

http://www.heraldnews.com/site/news....id=99784&rfi=6

LINESIDES · 08-01-2002, 07:52 AM

Tat,
I could loan you my Tuna rod, but I has a 357 Magnum Black Hawk mounted to the under side of the reel! But you would have to have a license to carry, to use my rod!

Later

Mr. Kav · 08-01-2002, 08:41 AM

the saltwater snakehead finally makes an appearance

SeaWolf · 08-01-2002, 08:58 AM

nessy have a new home? call up eye_ball and get his spear guy. that would be fun. maybe a harpoon ? "you're gonna need a bigger boat..."

Saltheart · 08-01-2002, 09:07 AM

I bet there are some bait chuckers after it this morning! I would think Pot Roast would be a good bait. With 4 inch teeth I recommend steel leaders.

Scary though!

tlapinski · 08-01-2002, 09:09 AM

i like this line

"..... a piranha was recently found in Coventry, R.I., and an alligator is on the run in Lincoln, R.I. ...."

i haven't heard snything about this. time to start using steel leaders again!

Bill L · 08-01-2002, 09:10 AM

umm, is this August or April??

JohnR · 08-01-2002, 09:40 AM

Ummm - Is this Portsmouth or Amity?

Do Congers have teeth? Tuna rod, where's Patrick when you need him.

The alligator - all 10 pounds of him, was caught yesterday :http://www.projo.com/blackstone/cont....48701f3a.html

I think you need those new titanium leaders...

Tattoo · 08-01-2002, 09:47 AM

The real question is can Saltheart make a jig big enough for the skin?

JohnR · 08-01-2002, 10:08 AM

yeh, but can you cast an engine block?

Tattoo · 08-01-2002, 11:35 AM

Carbon Fiber Jig heads?

likwid · 08-01-2002, 12:56 PM

Congers have BIG FREAKING NASTY TEETH

*shivers*

Been out a couple times on commercial lobster boats (ok more than a couple times... alot) and had em in the traps... Evil bastards they are...

From the description (minus the size) it sounds like either a big conger or a goosefish on steroids...

Will a full Fin Nor Tycoon rig with 200lb do the job?

To hell with that...

Someone catch it on flyrod!

Addenum here:

Now, lets take into account the fear factor, when people are scared, things are bigger than they really are.

ie: the sharks that were on the whale carcass a year or so ago were only 10-12 footers... not 15+ like people thought...

So in reality, we could guestimate this thing down to the size of a REALLY FREAKING BIG Conger maybe, and i've never seen a Goosefish over 4-5 foot (pictures of my dad with massive Goosefish out of Plymouth back when he was my age)

But what I don't get is the hissing etc, I mean the description is absolutely awful, but we can blame that on the paper themselves, they're all about sensationalism.

Megamouth sharks and the such have been caught/spotted/etc. in the Atlantic, so it very well could possibly be a dying deep water shark s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g air for some reason.

So now we're down to, Goosefish, deep water shark, Conger Eel, any other suggestions?

Mr. Sandman · 08-01-2002, 01:41 PM

I have some big game tuna stuff but this sounds like a hoax to me. And I doubt that thing would hit a spreader bar trolled at 6 knots. Probably better hooking up a live pig or goat and letting him thrash around for a whle and see what hits it.
I don't know of anything snake like that big with teeth. Sounds downright nasty. I caugt a big wolf fish once off the coast of ME and it looked like what they described but theay are only 2-3' long and are dark.

schoolie monster · 08-01-2002, 03:28 PM

Sensationalism... I wasn't sure if I was reading the Herald or the Nat'l Enquirer. That is a weird story.

Hissing... maybe it was some Extra terrestrial predator.

Are we sure this wasn't a seal or something? How many fish stick their heads out and hiss...

I can't wait for the follow up.