last night I caught....... - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Flaptail · 10-06-2006, 10:11 AM

A real Needlefish on a Needlefish. Aboout two feet long. Nasty little bastage with a bad attitude. Man he curled around like a snake and kept snapping at me after I unhooked him. All those little needle teeth on those long jaws. Apparantly they are cannibalistic. Under the bright moon in a pond opening jsut as the tide started out around ten last night. Had a couple others on but dropped them. I have seen one bigger in the canal caught at night that attacked a live eel years ago. My friend Ski still has the head he cut off and varnished. It was easily three feet long and viscious.

Anyone else ever hooked up on them?

bttfish · 10-06-2006, 10:39 AM

Any pictures? No idea what they look like..

Karl F · 10-06-2006, 11:33 AM

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Any pictures? No idea what they look like..

Flap.. Tony S. caught one within the past month, just about the same size as the one you got.

DZ · 10-06-2006, 10:41 AM

Flap,
They were caught by the bucketfull in Old Harbor one November on Block (1980s). Diamond jigs and gold hooks meant for mackeral took them. Often made me wonder why the bass were eating our needlefish plugs with reckless abandon. I Mention the event in my book.

Good fight?

DZ

Flaptail · 10-06-2006, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by DZ

Flap,
They were caught by the bucketfull in Old Harbor one November on Block (1980s). Diamond jigs and gold hooks meant for mackeral took them. Often made me wonder why the bass were eating our needlefish plugs with reckless abandon. I Mention the event in my book.

Good fight?

DZ

He was hooked in the tail and wrapped around the plug in his jaws. Dennis I would love to read that draft sometime!

Flaptail · 10-06-2006, 10:52 AM

Book says they grow up to 4 feet long! Yeow!!! Also, says they are excellent bait fish that spend most of thier time at or near the surface. Hmm... wonder why I like floating needles so much!

thefishingfreak · 10-06-2006, 11:21 AM

we've caught them in a cast net in chatham harbor. thru them in the cooler all day and they lived in the melted icewater/beer swill all the way back to boston.

i think there the same ones they sell in pet stores as GAR.
i've had some for a few years in a 55 gallon freshwater tank and fed the little goldfish.
nasty is right.

RNC · 10-06-2006, 11:22 AM

I caught one back in July while it was just swimming at the surface, I shined my flashlight at it and just grabbed it by hand. I never knew why there were needlefish shaped lures until I caught a one.

DZ · 10-06-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Flaptail

Dennis I would love to read that draft sometime!

Steve,
The draft was sitting on the coffee table in our cottage in Wellfleet when i was up. You should have called... The way the bite was that week you would have had plenty of time to read it. Maybe this winter.

DZ

PoPin Plug · 10-06-2006, 02:58 PM

haha he P*ssed you off sooo p*ss it of and use it as bait

did you? hahaha

fishaholic18 · 10-06-2006, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by PoPin Plug

haha he P*ssed you off sooo p*ss it of and use it as bait

PNG · 10-22-2006, 07:57 AM

Swimmer · 10-22-2006, 10:25 AM

I have read that boat fishermen in the Carribean, probably row boat fishermen, have had the needlefish impale themselves in a fisherman's chest when they jumped out of the water. I think the person/s who this has happened to were seriously injured.