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Originally Posted by spike  I can not resist asking if maybe you were in a tangle, hence backing off the drags or taking it out of gear. Maybe your "that guy", or maybe I am that "POS guy". Its a shame, but true that on bad apple can ruin the bunch.
Or possibly the crew member thought your drag was to tight and wanted to assist you. The crew does not want you to loose your fish, but most take pleasure in doing what the do and want all anglers aboard to have success.
If it is that the crew member was walking around taking your reels out of gear while you were bent over on a fish as a childish joke, well I am sure you did not pay to come aboard and be bothered by some annoying deck hand and I reckon he is a "piece of shit". |
how about if you ask if I had ever been fishing before, spike? you covered just about everything else that didn't happen. c'mon, dude.
no tangles as there were only a few of us at the stern in the afternoon after watching 20+ of the same butts all day long at the rail with their knitting needles and having new baits continuously cast in.....OVER their buddies lines by the crew.....from the second row. I guess thats SOP on some LR boats? Anyway it was fun....er....educational to watch while being a non-participant.
That afternoon when they got tired, bored, hungry after an extremely picky bite on the Lupe 90-110# Yellow Fin Tuna with little to no current...they went wherever it is that "tired, bored, hungry" anglers go. A few of us who had been "waiting around" and who already had lunch moved into a mostly vacant stern....just as the current started to pick up.
I got me a hot dine, lobbed it in from the corner and almost immediately got picked up by a larger tuna heading southbound quickly. The "other guys" saw this and immediately made sure their lines were fully under control and out of the way. I was standing (not bent over) with rod at a nice angle letting the fish easily take drag with a comfortable bend in the rod (GUSA Predator Avet 4/0-2). Let 'em run, let'em get tired, then get them back before the sharks attack. The sharks that day were pretty much allowing a 35 minute fight before grabbing hooked fish. Nice of them to wait.
MY drag setting wasn't too firm. Deckie took it upon himself to reach in, pull my line, back-off the drag and smack into free-spool. JUST THAT QUICK. He then grabbed the ensuing mess on the reel with both hands, gave ME a dirty look, managed to push my drag into full-strike, told me my drag was "too tight", and walked away to the sound of PING!
I sure am glad that he took it upon himself to ensure that I caught my fish.
There were a few other things that happened on that trip that appeared to be "normal practice" for that particular boat, skipper, and crew. (same deckie did a couple things the previous day while we were on a school of open water Yellow Fin Tuna. this was pretty much the climax) Ok.
The next year on a different boat, deckie decided on his own that my kite fish needed full-strike. I was gaining line in a straight up and down fight where the drag was. IMMEDIATELY upon him reaching in and pushing the drag lever full forward.....hmmmmmm.
"must be bad line"
"its the boats' rig"
"line musta had a nick in it"
"it was fine until you pushed that little lever forward from where I had it".
"hmmm...
both leaders are snapped. want to try again?"
"sure...maybe after lunch...."
no boat names...they are both top boats. Thats the way they do it on their boats. and they have plenty of anglers who like it that way...and a few who apparently disagree with my "POS" assessment. There are other boats that dont mess with my gear
while I'm on a fish.
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