Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
Yup. My best results are with squid lures of the Mexican flag colors. Red White Green. No kidding. I use a hand line with 100 pound test. It's not fair, but I'm not fishing for sport. Wal Fred wrote: The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb nylon hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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Scotch does that to me, but it takes more than one spritz in each gill…. Rich Knowles Nanaimo, BC INDIGO LF38 Boatless! On Jun 18, 2015, at 18:33, Jim Watts via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: We used a cedar plug trailing on a heavy mono line joined to surgical tubing coming back from Hawaii last year, got a nice mahi and a nice albacore within minutes. A spray bottle of vodka dispatched them amazingly quickly. One shot into each gill and that was that. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/Cts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/Cts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg Jim Watts Paradigm Shift CC 35 Mk III Victoria, BC ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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The first time we tried this the crew sent below for booze came up with a bottle of Courvoisier, it worked as well as cheap vodka if you catch a classy fish. Don Newman 905 547 1750 On Jun 18, 2015, at 16:15, Lee Youngblood via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Hi Doug, The gaff or winch handle is dangerous and messy on board. When you get the fish close enough, just spray their gills with cheap booze. It goes straight to the fish “lungs” and they die a quick quiet death. You don’t have to fight with a bouncing fish splashing blood all over the place, or getting spines in your legs or hands. It’s really surprising how quick it works, easy trick if you you didn’t finish off the fish booze too. 2 cents, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:51 PM, svpegasu...@gmail.com via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Lee, What is the cheap booze trick? I just use a metal winch handle. Doug Mountjoy svPegasus LF38 ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
Courvoisier - Classy fish. Very funny Don. :-) Regards, Francois Rivard 1990 34+ Take Five Lake Lanier, GA Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips? Message-ID: 494cc7dd-7b95-41ad-9248-570930e94...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 The first time we tried this the crew sent below for booze came up with a bottle of Courvoisier, it worked as well as cheap vodka if you catch a classy fish. Don Newman 905 547 1750 ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
The offshore fishing set up that worked well for me is: +- 200' of 100 lb. or 200 lb. test fishing line stored on a large enough spool (old lead wire spool work great) to be easily handled. +- 3' of stronger leader, often a SS braid A 3 prong hook (AKA big a** #2 or #3 treble hook) A 12 length of double braid sailing line, preferably white with red and blue color woven in. +- 3' of large diameter bungee cord Fabricate a lure from the double braid line by passing the leader and hook through the center of the double braid, whip the top of the double braid tight to the leader with the hook approx. in the middle of the length of braid. Fray the double braid up to the hook or a little past. Be sure the braid is large enough in diameter to camouflage the hook as much as possible. The goal is to make the frayed double braid look and act like a flying fish or squid. Attach the leader to the fishing line. Drop the lure/hook into the water off the stern with a fair lead to a winch. Run out 50' to 100' of line, wrap a few turns around the winch and cleat off. Tie the bungee cord to the fishing line and secure the bungee cord to a cleat. Ease the fishing line out enough that the load is on the bungee with a little slack in the fishing line. Cleat off the fishing line but keep enough turns on the winch to allow easy handling under load. Take a nap. Check the bungee cord form time to time. With a fish strikes or the hook tangles in some debris the bungee cord will stretch out to let you know to check the line. Use the winch to help with bringing the line in by hand. If you catch a fighter (either tuna of mahi) keep sailing for a while. Dragging the fish will often take the fight out of them enough to bring them in by hand. The key for us seemed to be moving fast (5 to 7 knots) past drifting debris that is large enough to have a shadow. A piece of plywood was worth turning around and making a few passes. Mahi mahi seemed to hang out under floating debris and would strike at something going by fast enough to be a flying fish or squid. Tuna seemed to be more random in location but likely following a school of flying fish. We would often see tuna attacking a school of flying fish or other small bait fish. We would alter course to close with the schools dragging our lines. This process was not as reliable as catching mahi from under debris. I'm not a chef but we did carry the seaweed, wasabi, and other makings for sushi rolls, we would cut sashimi right off the fish while cutting them up into meal sized chunks for freezing. One of my favorite preparations was to cut off a steak sized piece and quickly fry each side in soy sauce and ginger with a side of rice. I do recommend you consult one of the many excellent fishing guides for more professional fishing hints, but on multiple Hawaii crossings, using the techniques like I described I have been able to catch more than enough mahi and tuna to stave off mutiny when the provisions became boring. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle -Original Message- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Lee Youngblood via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 11:18 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Lee Youngblood Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips? OK Martin, I'll bite. . . Can you share a few offshore fishing tips? I know the cheap booze spray bottle trick, but you probably invented it with a sneeze to the gills. . . Thanks, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: If the story teller was Texas John then it was the '77 delivery back from Hawaii following our 1st Transpac as a crew on the CC 39 Midnight Special. That delivery was one of my favorite of my 4 east bound Hawaii deliveries. Great weather and crew, reading in the cockpit by moon light, 2 weeks on one tack, getting ready for night watch by putting on a T-shirt, and teaching the crew the words to Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise. We hit the dock at Shilshole around dawn on a weekday. By 9AM we were loaded into my 1969 Ford Econoline van headed to one of the crew's lakeside houses for a party. It was a great year to be young, single, and hooked on offshore sailing. The one thing that would have improved it would be to know what I now know about offshore fishing under sail. Back in 77 no one on the crew knew how to catch tuna and mahi mahi. With what I learned on later Hawaii deliveries we could have been eating like kings most of the trip back to Seattle. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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And that brings to mind, if you're being paid by the hour to crew or work on a boat.. the best stories start with , Once upon an overtime.. Cheers, Russ Sweet 35 mk-1 At 07:25 PM 18/06/2015, you wrote: We've had good luck with a cedar plug, too. I think it's appropriate, given the direction of this thread, to mention that the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale is that one starts Once upon a time... And the other starts, Now, this is no shit...! Andy CC 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 On Jun 18, 2015, at 21:33, Jim Watts via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: We used a cedar plug trailing on a heavy mono line joined to surgical tubing coming back from Hawaii last year, got a nice mahi and a nice albacore within minutes. A spray bottle of vodka dispatched them amazingly quickly. One shot into each gill and that was that. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/Cts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/Cts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg Jim Watts Paradigm Shift CC 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 18 June 2015 at 17:51, Frederick G Street via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb nylon hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.comcnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into football sized roasts. On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with offshore rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines from the two rods from getting under the boat (a 46â Barnett custom). The fishing line was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 treble, the lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, wahoo, and some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung out at the same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing tennis shoes into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of fighting, we landed the small tuna (the 70lbâr), the big one broke the line and got away. I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West Coast. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.comhttp://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.comCnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.comhttp://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
We've had good luck with a cedar plug, too. I think it's appropriate, given the direction of this thread, to mention that the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale is that one starts Once upon a time... And the other starts, Now, this is no shit...! Andy CC 40 Peregrine Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 On Jun 18, 2015, at 21:33, Jim Watts via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: We used a cedar plug trailing on a heavy mono line joined to surgical tubing coming back from Hawaii last year, got a nice mahi and a nice albacore within minutes. A spray bottle of vodka dispatched them amazingly quickly. One shot into each gill and that was that. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/Cts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg Jim Watts Paradigm Shift CC 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 18 June 2015 at 17:51, Frederick G Street via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb nylon hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into football sized roasts. On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with offshore rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines from the two rods from getting under the boat (a 46’ Barnett custom). The fishing line was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 treble, the lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, wahoo, and some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung out at the same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing tennis shoes into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of fighting, we landed the small tuna (the 70lb’r), the big one broke the line and got away. I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West Coast. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
We used a cedar plug trailing on a heavy mono line joined to surgical tubing coming back from Hawaii last year, got a nice mahi and a nice albacore within minutes. A spray bottle of vodka dispatched them amazingly quickly. One shot into each gill and that was that. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/Cts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg Jim Watts Paradigm Shift CC 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 18 June 2015 at 17:51, Frederick G Street via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb nylon hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into football sized roasts. On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with offshore rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines from the two rods from getting under the boat (a 46’ Barnett custom). The fishing line was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 treble, the lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, wahoo, and some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung out at the same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing tennis shoes into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of fighting, we landed the small tuna (the 70lb’r), the big one broke the line and got away. I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West Coast. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb nylon hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into football sized roasts. On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with offshore rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines from the two rods from getting under the boat (a 46’ Barnett custom). The fishing line was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 treble, the lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, wahoo, and some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung out at the same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing tennis shoes into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of fighting, we landed the small tuna (the 70lb’r), the big one broke the line and got away. I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West Coast. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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OK Martin, I’ll bite. . . Can you share a few offshore fishing tips? I know the cheap booze spray bottle trick, but you probably invented it with a sneeze to the gills. . . Thanks, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: If the story teller was Texas John then it was the '77 delivery back from Hawaii following our 1st Transpac as a crew on the CC 39 Midnight Special. That delivery was one of my favorite of my 4 east bound Hawaii deliveries. Great weather and crew, reading in the cockpit by moon light, 2 weeks on one tack, getting ready for night watch by putting on a T-shirt, and teaching the crew the words to Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise. We hit the dock at Shilshole around dawn on a weekday. By 9AM we were loaded into my 1969 Ford Econoline van headed to one of the crew's lakeside houses for a party. It was a great year to be young, single, and hooked on offshore sailing. The one thing that would have improved it would be to know what I now know about offshore fishing under sail. Back in 77 no one on the crew knew how to catch tuna and mahi mahi. With what I learned on later Hawaii deliveries we could have been eating like kings most of the trip back to Seattle. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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Lee, What is the cheap booze trick? I just use a metal winch handle. Doug MountjoysvPegasusLF38 just west of Ballard, WA. -- Original message--From: Lee Youngblood via CnC-List Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2015 11:18To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com;Cc: Lee Youngblood;Subject:Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?OK Martin,I’ll bite. . . Can you share a few offshore fishing tips?I know the cheap booze spray bottle trick, but you probably invented it with a sneeze to the gills. . . Thanks, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List wrote: If the story teller was Texas John then it was the '77 delivery back from Hawaii following our 1st Transpac as a crew on the CC 39 Midnight Special. That delivery was one of my favorite of my 4 east bound Hawaii deliveries. Great weather and crew, reading in the cockpit by moon light, 2 weeks on one tack, getting ready for night watch by putting on a T-shirt, and teaching the crew the words to Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise. We hit the dock at Shilshole around dawn on a weekday. By 9AM we were loaded into my 1969 Ford Econoline van headed to one of the crew's lakeside houses for a party. It was a great year to be young, single, and hooked on offshore sailing. The one thing that would have improved it would be to know what I now know about offshore fishing under sail. Back in 77 no one on the crew knew how to catch tuna and mahi mahi. With what I learned on later Hawaii deliveries we could have been eating like kings most of the trip back to Seattle. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle___Email address:CnC-List@cnc-list.comTo change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at:http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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Hi Doug, The gaff or winch handle is dangerous and messy on board. When you get the fish close enough, just spray their gills with cheap booze. It goes straight to the fish “lungs” and they die a quick quiet death. You don’t have to fight with a bouncing fish splashing blood all over the place, or getting spines in your legs or hands. It’s really surprising how quick it works, easy trick if you you didn’t finish off the fish booze too. 2 cents, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:51 PM, svpegasu...@gmail.com via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Lee, What is the cheap booze trick? I just use a metal winch handle. Doug Mountjoy svPegasus LF38 ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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You have to live outside Canada.No such thing as cheap booze here. Sent from my Samsung device Original message From: svpegasu...@gmail.com via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com Date: 06-18-2015 16:51 (GMT-04:00) To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: svpegasu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips? Lee, What is the cheap booze trick? I just use a metal winch handle. Doug MountjoysvPegasusLF38 just west of Ballard, WA. -- Original message--From: Lee Youngblood via CnC-List Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2015 11:18To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com;Cc: Lee Youngblood;Subject:Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?OK Martin,I’ll bite. . . Can you share a few offshore fishing tips?I know the cheap booze spray bottle trick, but you probably invented it with a sneeze to the gills. . . Thanks, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List wrote: If the story teller was Texas John then it was the '77 delivery back from Hawaii following our 1st Transpac as a crew on the CC 39 Midnight Special. That delivery was one of my favorite of my 4 east bound Hawaii deliveries. Great weather and crew, reading in the cockpit by moon light, 2 weeks on one tack, getting ready for night watch by putting on a T-shirt, and teaching the crew the words to Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise. We hit the dock at Shilshole around dawn on a weekday. By 9AM we were loaded into my 1969 Ford Econoline van headed to one of the crew's lakeside houses for a party. It was a great year to be young, single, and hooked on offshore sailing. The one thing that would have improved it would be to know what I now know about offshore fishing under sail. Back in 77 no one on the crew knew how to catch tuna and mahi mahi. With what I learned on later Hawaii deliveries we could have been eating like kings most of the trip back to Seattle. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle___Email address:CnC-List@cnc-list.comTo change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at:http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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On the way to Bermuda a few years back, a nice mahi got onto the line; but we didn’t notice it for a while, so it dragged behind the boat for quite a while. Once we realized it was on, we reeled it in and I proceeded to spray vodka into the gill slits. The darn thing wouldn’t die; it just kept vigorously flopping around. I imagine all the oxygen from all that water through which we dragged it gave it quite a buzz… :^) It finally gave in (after about a pint of cheap vodka) and we ate some as sushi and some as fried strips. Yum! Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Lee Youngblood via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Hi Doug, The gaff or winch handle is dangerous and messy on board. When you get the fish close enough, just spray their gills with cheap booze. It goes straight to the fish “lungs” and they die a quick quiet death. You don’t have to fight with a bouncing fish splashing blood all over the place, or getting spines in your legs or hands. It’s really surprising how quick it works, easy trick if you you didn’t finish off the fish booze too. ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. - Original Message - From: Frederick G Street via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Frederick G Street f...@postaudio.net Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:39:06 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips? On the way to Bermuda a few years back, a nice mahi got onto the line; but we didn’t notice it for a while, so it dragged behind the boat for quite a while. Once we realized it was on, we reeled it in and I proceeded to spray vodka into the gill slits. The darn thing wouldn’t die; it just kept vigorously flopping around. I imagine all the oxygen from all that water through which we dragged it gave it quite a buzz… :^) It finally gave in (after about a pint of cheap vodka) and we ate some as sushi and some as fried strips. Yum! Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Lee Youngblood via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Hi Doug, The gaff or winch handle is dangerous and messy on board. When you get the fish close enough, just spray their gills with cheap booze. It goes straight to the fish “lungs” and they die a quick quiet death. You don’t have to fight with a bouncing fish splashing blood all over the place, or getting spines in your legs or hands. It’s really surprising how quick it works, easy trick if you you didn’t finish off the fish booze too. ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips?
Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into football sized roasts. On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with offshore rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines from the two rods from getting under the boat (a 46’ Barnett custom). The fishing line was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 treble, the lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, wahoo, and some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung out at the same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing tennis shoes into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of fighting, we landed the small tuna (the 70lb’r), the big one broke the line and got away. I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West Coast. Martin DeYoung Calypso 1971 CC 43 Seattle [Description: Description: cid:D1BF9853-22F7-47FB-86F2-4115CE0BAF2F] From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Chuck S via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:53 PM To: CNC boat owners, cnc-list Cc: Chuck S Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips? Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. From: Frederick G Street via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.com To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Frederick G Street f...@postaudio.net Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:39:06 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Pacific Sea stories / Offshore fishing tips? On the way to Bermuda a few years back, a nice mahi got onto the line; but we didn’t notice it for a while, so it dragged behind the boat for quite a while. Once we realized it was on, we reeled it in and I proceeded to spray vodka into the gill slits. The darn thing wouldn’t die; it just kept vigorously flopping around. I imagine all the oxygen from all that water through which we dragged it gave it quite a buzz… :^) It finally gave in (after about a pint of cheap vodka) and we ate some as sushi and some as fried strips. Yum! Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 CC Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Jun 18, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Lee Youngblood via CnC-List cnc-list@cnc-list.commailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com wrote: Hi Doug, The gaff or winch handle is dangerous and messy on board. When you get the fish close enough, just spray their gills with cheap booze. It goes straight to the fish “lungs” and they die a quick quiet death. You don’t have to fight with a bouncing fish splashing blood all over the place, or getting spines in your legs or hands. It’s really surprising how quick it works, easy trick if you you didn’t finish off the fish booze too. ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.commailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com ___ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
