BIGGEST FISH

[Keegan]

What is the biggest fish you ever caught from your sailboat? Were you trolling or fishing while anchored? What lure or live bait did you use to catch this fish?

[sv_makai]

4 1/2 & a 5 foot wahoo. tasty too! Dragging a red cedar plug.

[S/V Antares]

Keegan, I accidently snagged a sunfish while trolling that looked like a big army blanket. Could not tell how big.Cut the line. The biggest I have landed was a tuna about 150lb. By the time we got it in the cockpit and it started got into what is known as "Death Rattles'. I thought the boat was going to come apart! The tuna regurgitated about 20 pounds of baitfish and blood everywhere. What a mess! I have since learned to cut the tail or cover the eyes. Sushi and tuna steaks for three days and froze enough for a month!

[S/V Antares]

Rub it in Capt. Bil. Us monos cannot troll fast enough for Wahoo!

I leave the fishing to my crew. Not much of a fisherman, but I voted based on my crew's claims
Great poll by the way.

[Keegan]

Originally Posted by sv_makai

4 1/2 & a 5 foot wahoo. tasty too! Dragging a red cedar plug.

Did you have a wire rig to the cedar plug or was it on mono. Wahoos tend to bite off the lure if it is mono.

Keegan

[sv_makai]

The five footer even half a boat could have caught. We had just cleared the anchorage in La Blanquilla, Ven and were just setting the sails. Probably doinf 5 knots and he found us. Took me 45 muscle burning minuted to get him in.

100 lb test and wire leader. We drug that lure for 3000nm catching a ton of fish (black fin tuna, king mackeral, wahoo, dorado, barracuda, weeds) before a barracude took it deep and we decided he could have it.

[JusDreaming]

60 pound yellow fin tuna last year off of Lee Stocking Island

[Gator81]

Wasn't my boat, but my old college roommate's dad's boat. Does that count? It was years ago.
The fish was a 7'6" sailfish, kinda skinny at only 53 pounds. I'm not an expert on them, but my friend's dad said he was skinny 'cause it was the end of the breeding/mating season and he was just starting to eat again.
We were about 8 miles off shore, nearly due east of Palm Beach, FL.
Rig was a bait fish... I can't recall right now what it was called, but we caught them in shallow water with a net before we headed offshore. There was a teaser plug with feathers and such on the line ahead of the baitfish, and a stainless steel wire leader.
The boat was making 4, maybe 5 knots, not real fast. The fish only jumped once and he really was not a big challenge to bring in. But he sure did taste good!

[Morgan Paul]

3 Foot Striped Bass, trolling a silver spoon lure at 5.5 knots, in Long Island Sound.

Paul

[cferger]

I hate fish, pretty much all sea food in fact. Would rather eat beefaroni and you probably know how bad that is.

Chuck

[Jentine]

I do most of my fishing at the supermarket. It is considerably cheaper and I get the kind I want each time.

[Gator81]

I do most of my fishing at the supermarket

Don't they get tired of the beer cans piling up?

[Hud3]

I've caught mostly dolphin fish while trolling--we're too slow for a wahoo. The biggest was 48" and probably 28-30 lb--a big bull dolphin. I've had great luck with a tarted-up cedar plug, green with a yellow and red belly.

[zephyr4]

We catch a lot of fish while cruising in Michigan and the North Channel. Our biggest was a nice size steelhead caught casting with a Mepps spinner from the dinghy.

We knew we wouldn't be able to eat all of it before the ice went. Three passing hikers got to eat a nice piece of trout instead of the re-hydrated stuff they had planned on!

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