my first offshore adventure

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my first offshore adventure

Postby drenal » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:17 pm

my first time ever fishing off shore ,and i could describe it in few words but i like this one the best ( holy fn wow) :o :shock: :P :D .

ok im no rookie fisherman here fished since i was probably in diapers ,but yesterday i almost felt like wearing one lol .


friend calls me late night and asks dude you want to go shark and tuna fishing, im like when we leaving 4 hrs be ready hmm so that meant 2 hrs off sleep since i was not ready for sure and then alot more no sleep since i wanted to suck in all the experience ,first time for me tuna and shark fishing .

ok so we get to the boat start loading up the gear and start heading out .
We get about 30 miles of shore and im like wth is that stop the boat lol :lol: ,first i thought it was a whale and so did they but it happened to be a ginormous and i mean humongus sea turtle the thing was probably bigger then my f 150 .
ok so he tells me dude get up on the roof when we go past the lobster pods you might see some mahi mahi ,ok i seen them on tv and on my plate in few restaurants ,but not in the water preety cool tried to fish for them but they would not bite close but no cigar ok back to the plan heading out farther about 50 miles out we get to start tuna fishing rig up start trolling bam one on ok lol i cought 40 +striper and i thought i was tough lol no way thing was kicking my ass bam snap fish off phew in back of my head i was almost glad but this is only the beggining ok one more hook up and one more snap ok so plan b lets go for some bigger fish im like what ok :lol: :shock: so we get into the spot about 62 miles out and start chumming every one is just chilling and relaxing while im out amazed at the dolphins and a whale and stuff swimmng past back and forth we set up the rigs and since the knew i was out like a eagle eye trying to watch everything around me they say watch the rods ok cool chill ill wach them lol.
About 1 hr into the drift chum i see this fish jump like litterly close to 10 ft out the water im like holy crap dude wake the hell up we are sorrounded by sharks few minutes was totally happy chaos all 6 rods are going off im like wth am i suppose to do :o :cry: they are fighting the fish and yelling at me to get the other rods out the water ,oh ye how
am i going to do that with sorry to say but a fn shark on each one so he starts flipping out one me as each gear is about to almost break tells me cut the fn lines im running around like and mad man and so are they one mako and one brown shark on the mako jumps in and out of water and i mean in and out like a second in water and then out like 6 to 10 ft im like holy cow :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o did this like 10 times snap fish off thats ok now atleast i got some help in the chaoes of me trying to cut the other lines and fight the other fish so he helps me cut few lines since it was to much for us 3 to handle and grabs one pole starts fighting the fish i grab the other now 3 of us got fish hmm more chaos couse how the hell am i suppose to help if i got fish on oh boy did we get on each other ,but it was all good the mako makes a dart almost right at the boat comes close jumps in air snap but this time it was not the line it was the pole holy cow again as he is fighting the fish with hafl a pole :shock: :lol: :lol: ok we are all accupied right now so it kind of sucked after fighting a while bam the brown shark on my friends pole jumps out the water does a couple twists and snap fish off no biggie im still fighting my big blue shark and my friend oh boy half a pole fight with a mako fish jumps up again and finally snapps the line on his half pole ok phew pissed that we did not get to boat the mako but now evryone is concentrated to help bring the other fish on.

in total we hooked up with 9 sharks and boated 4 blue sharks but it was not the shark we were after but still a blast ,i could pobobly write another page but my two fingers are starting to hurt from typing .

all i could say is that it was a experience i will not forget and in my opinion i dont think its possible to land a mako :cry: :lol: :P them fish are totally nuts and i mean nuts i never seen a fish fight and leap out the water like that and to be honest holy fn cow do they kick your ass .

oh another thing the water was so clear i was like wow almost like tropical s*** overall i almost had to change my diaper few times lol and stuff ,but wow if you never been off shore you will be amazed what you see few miles out (totally different world out there)


whole pole lol

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half pole lol

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and some shots of blue sharks

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thanks for letting me share my experinace with you guys that i will not forget
next time i promise to take more pics couse there is alot of work involved when you hook into one of these suckers so i had not time to take more pics :thumbsup:

get out there and FISH ON MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS :thumbsup:


p.s. laugh at me if you want to but till you hooked into one of these suckers you wont know how bad they can give you a whoopin
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby RED » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:28 pm

Sweet Al, looks like you were fishing in the Bahamas....
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby drenal » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:20 pm

RED wrote:Sweet Al, looks like you were fishing in the Bahamas....

surface water was hotter then the showers i take lol like 76 F
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby Runumngunum » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:30 pm

thanks for letting me share my experinace with you guys that i will not forget
Awesome dude you share stories like that any time :thumbsup: Sounded like a sick time with alot of action. :thumbsup: Was that a charter boat or a friends boat? No sign of any Tuna? Great story you should be a writer :mrgreen: :thumbsup:
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby drenal » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:49 pm

Runumngunum wrote:
thanks for letting me share my experinace with you guys that i will not forget
Awesome dude you share stories like that any time :thumbsup: Sounded like a sick time with alot of action. :thumbsup: Was that a charter boat or a friends boat? No sign of any Tuna? Great story you should be a writer :mrgreen: :thumbsup:

it was my buddies boat could not hook into the tuna seen some action then it was gone so we decided to go and target the sharks ,it was definetly a time i will not forget and my mission is to bring one of them sick makos to the boat after that i aint touching those crazy things or coming anywhere close lol ,those things are the psychopaths of fish totally ballistic fighting fish im still shocked at the way that fish reacted seriously it was the coolest thing i seen in my life so far :P
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby Runumngunum » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:54 pm

coolest thing i seen in my life so far

Thats awesome, never know what gona happen offshore :thumbsup:
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby kmtpr » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:38 pm

Hey Al, enjoyed reading your story, awesome stuff!! Glad to hear you had such a great time. Thanks for sharing your experience and pics. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby pakman » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:46 pm

Great story Al, looks like a great time. I hope to get out for sharks one day myself :thumbsup:
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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby XexorZ » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:59 pm

Wow Al that takes it! Sounds like you had a great trip!!!!

Thanks so much for sharing - I ♥ the ocean... good stuff!!!

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Re: my first offshore adventure

Postby 35Whelan » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:32 pm

Al.... I see you got bit by this shark bug.... Look's like you had a fun time with them... Thank's for sharing your story and pic's... What kind of boat is that??? Like Pakman said we should do a charter...
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