collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Guantanamo Black Tip  (Read 2803 times)

Navyhunter

  • Guest
Guantanamo Black Tip
« on: May 19, 2009, 02:34:05 PM »
   Here's a blacktip I caught a month or two ago. Since we get fined $10,000 for messing with iguanas and the base game warden won't let us hunt banana rats, sharks are next on the list. Of course there's snapper, grouper, mackerel and all sorts of other fish, but sharks are so much more of a rush than a 5lb snapper.
   This old girl was taken with a Penn battle stick, 100lb braided line with a stainless 80lb cable leader, a balloon for a float and a snapper head for bait.  This girl was a screamer, she took about a hundred yards of line before I could get her turned around, then it took 47 minutes to land her.
   When we got her to the marina and cleaned her we found 7 babies, each about a foot long. We cut them out and let 'em go, they all swam away and are now stock for the next poor souls that get stationed here in hell.
   She "tipped" the scales at 92lbs and measured 5'6".  The jaws are going to hang on my lovely wifes wall.   :chuckle:

Offline jackelope

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+29)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50753
  • Location: Duvall, WA
  • Groups: jackelope
Re: Guantanamo Black Tip
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2009, 02:37:50 PM »
nice fish.

"Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment."

Offline oneezreiter

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2008
  • Posts: 792
  • Location: Renner SD
Re: Guantanamo Black Tip
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2009, 02:45:08 PM »
cool
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners." 

Sir Winston Churchill

Offline cohoho

  • Trade Count: (+9)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 4204
  • Location: Black Diamond
  • Sturgeon Time Yet????
Re: Guantanamo Black Tip
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2009, 03:00:19 PM »
Way to cool, loved fishing for Sharks via scuba and a bang stick while in Hawaii, never had much luck rod and reel, only for the little hammer heads...

Navyhunter

  • Guest
Re: Guantanamo Black Tip
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2009, 04:14:45 PM »
Apparently there's a few hammerheads down here too, haven't had any luck with them though.  Guess they're outside the bay in the deeper water where we can't take rental boats.  Fishing is about the only thing we can do to pass our off time down here....good stuff.

Offline big ed

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jan 2009
  • Posts: 112
  • Location: stanwwod,wa
Re: Guantanamo Black Tip
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2009, 12:21:35 PM »
 :fishin: way to go
just like to fish and hunt

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Power bait secrets......send it by branches
[Today at 03:32:24 PM]


Idaho's new Deer/Elk License System by pickardjw
[Today at 03:20:08 PM]


WA Bucket List….Mule Deer Permit by avidnwoutdoorsman
[Today at 01:28:26 PM]


In the background by Ricochet
[Today at 01:22:33 PM]


Midwest Whitetails by northwesthunter84
[Today at 12:26:51 PM]


My Kansas 2025 Buck by Pathfinder101
[Today at 12:09:25 PM]


2027 Pink Run Destroyed by Bareback
[Today at 08:26:10 AM]


Idaho on the verge of outlawing by huntnnw
[Today at 08:12:29 AM]


Leopard Cur Pups by TeacherMan
[Today at 08:11:35 AM]


Local knife makers ? by HntnFsh
[Today at 07:25:57 AM]


Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26 by TeacherMan
[Today at 06:36:07 AM]


GO 2025 15th Annual Hunting-Washington Christmas Gift Exchange by Ghost Hunter
[Today at 05:42:50 AM]


2025 blacktail rut thread by Mfowl
[Yesterday at 06:41:15 PM]


Curvy Damascus Utility Fighter by teanawayslayer
[Yesterday at 04:29:20 PM]


Lion Down - the Savor of Success by Pathfinder101
[Yesterday at 03:26:41 PM]


Big J's Barn sale / Drawing by BigJs Outdoor Store
[Yesterday at 03:07:57 PM]


Swakane by blackveltbowhunter
[Yesterday at 02:04:52 PM]


What A Waste - Moose Poached in ID by WA hunters by Rainier10
[Yesterday at 01:59:09 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal