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09-25-2010, 10:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Chasing fat girls in the dark
Posts: 961
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Ocean Sunfish on the Tube at Scorton
Anybody know if this thing could have actually chased down and eaten the tube? I couldn't believe it but it was actually hooked in the corner of the jaw.
Had to chase it with the boat for half an hour before we even saw it. I thought the paint was going to bubble on my reel.
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09-26-2010, 12:30 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Very cool catch! Even better that you got pics of it too....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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09-26-2010, 06:38 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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They eat jelly fish. I'd guess the line crossed its mouth and it got snagged. Cool catch either way.
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09-26-2010, 02:52 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Sunfish... the fat, lazy American's of the sea.
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09-26-2010, 02:59 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Sunfish... the fat, lazy American's of the sea.
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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09-26-2010, 03:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Dedham MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAKAI
Fat lazy liberals
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I guess this means you've never been to the Bible Belt. Obesity in America pretty well correlates with conservative voting. Fat people, southern WalMart - skinny people, northern Starbucks. |
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09-26-2010, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: lunenburg, ma
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Please explain California then...
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09-26-2010, 03:52 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkB
I guess this means you've never been to the Bible Belt. Obesity in America pretty well correlates with conservative voting. Fat people, southern WalMart - skinny people, northern Starbucks.
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09-26-2010, 04:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: lunenburg, ma
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It's a Sunfish thread but Cracker barrel does has it's share of Sunfish. 12.4 of Californian's are Sunfish. Nevada and Michigan are the only states with more Sunfish percentage wise..
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09-26-2010, 04:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
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Defiantely snagged. There were 4 there Saturday. I ran my lines right over one by accident.
Glad I didn't get lucky like you...
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09-26-2010, 06:58 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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Wow that is quite the catch. I agree snagged. Here is how close I got to one last week in 25 feet of water along Sandy Neck. I think it was sick because it didn't even try to dive down or run away. Just stayed right there. Also ran into this beast too in close a week before.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-27-2010, 07:31 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
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09-27-2010, 08:28 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
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They eat jellyfish. It's not all that uncommon for springtime shark fishermen to catch them when the jelly combs pile up on the leader/hooks. They do put up a hell of a fight. They are not afraid of boats in the least, they sometime swim right up next to the boat when we are drifting for sharks. They love to have the back scratched with a deck brush!
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09-27-2010, 08:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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That's amazing. great to have pics.
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09-27-2010, 02:32 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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LOL. that was great. I have a friend that does stuff just like that, never a dull moment.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-27-2010, 03:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,620
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is that who i think it is in the video?
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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09-27-2010, 03:08 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
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that's freakin awesome! you had to chase it? so it fought pretty good?
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09-27-2010, 03:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
Posts: 1,501
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Quote:
Originally Posted by niko
is that who i think it is in the video?
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yup, it's Bill, so far this year he's only touched a dolphin off the bow swimming along side. He wants to swim with a basking shark but we have't got close enough lately.
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09-27-2010, 03:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sandwich MA
Posts: 107
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Profe we hooked that shark i think . It pounded a swim shad right off sandyneck and then booted. We got it to the boat an cut the line after a 20 minute fight. It was a huge brown shark.
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09-27-2010, 05:29 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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that was a 20 foot basking shark I am pretty sure. It was about 5 foot around.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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11-10-2011, 06:26 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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We hooked up a mola couple months back trolling live macs. Skippy grabbed the rod with the reel screaming and thought he had his striper of a life time, I looked back and saw the mola fly about 4-5ft out of the water at which time it threw the hook. Glad we did not have to turn and chase, nice clean C&R.
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