Subdeacon Joe Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Looks like he should've brought another kind of Marlin with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I came very close to buying a fishing kayak in 2005 when I lived in North Carolina. $1500 plus accessories type of fishing kayak. I decided to buy a canoe on sale at Bass Pro for $239 just to see if fishing from a slick narrow boat would be something I would like to do. It isn’t. I hooked a 4# Largemouth near shore amongst a bunch or big rocks and rip-rap. The guys on shore got a big laugh watching my fight this bass and try to stay out of the rocks with a pole in one hand and an oar in the other. My fantasy of using a fishing kayak to catch linker bass and saltwater fish on the coast was...pun intended...”Dashed in the rocks” that day. That damn fish drug me all over the place. I got a real life lesson in Newton’s Law that day. Did you know that the motion of setting the hook is enough to propel a 14’ canoe with a 215 pound man in it at least 25 feet? Neither did I, until that day. @DocWard is right...Use another kind of Marlin...QUICK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Dang Joe, I just posted that. Have you been hanging out with Evelyn Wood again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Rich Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 If you set the hook that hard on a 4 lb bass you would have ripped his lips off if he had em. kR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 6 minutes ago, Kid Rich said: If you set the hook that hard on a 4 lb bass you would have ripped his lips off if he had em. kR Nope! The canoe was so slick it just took off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 It ain't a fish till it's in the boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 That idea didn't strike me as a healthy life choice when I read the title. Too much fish, not enough boat. Seriously, what's the endgame here? It ain't like you can tie the marlin along side the kayak. Once it's rested a little, it will want a Round 2. You can't kill it and bring in the carcass, every shark in the area will be zeroing in on you- and your little kayak. So, you can't keep it alive and can't kill it. Oh, and now you are 15 miles off shore, alone, in a boat with no motor. CUT THE LINE. I would have when I saw what it was for the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 An acquaintance once went out into the Atlantic with a canoe. When picked up by the Coast Guard he and his fishing partner were clinging onto their cooler. They lost all their gear including the canoe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Too much money. Not enough brains. No sense of ethics when it comes to fair chase hunting and fishing. I started cheering for the marlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, Charlie Harley, #14153 said: Too much money. Not enough brains. No sense of ethics when it comes to fair chase hunting and fishing. I started cheering for the marlin. Oh, I don't know. One guy in a plastic kayak, with light tackle, fighting a 500# marlin. Sounds like a pretty fair chase to me. And in the end, release. Unless I'm missing something, I think that's OK. And the marlin did win in the end. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Perhaps the plan is to always send out the support boat? Not enough thought behind that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 been there and done that with an 8 ft water scamp a couple of times , a 35 lb striped bass , will make ya feel like a bobber CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Am I the only one that pictured a guy with a magnet on the end of a rope trying to find his cowboy guns after one of the infamous boating accidents we gun owners have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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