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This is why you do not jump overboard just to swim in deep ocean waters ...
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:43 pm
All of us coastal dwellers have seen some pretty wild things while deep sea fishing or whatever. Sharks are usually the big draw, especially if you're in a small boat and out of sight of land ... or once you've hit the blue water of the gulf stream and it's like a river in the middle of the ocean ... anyways, you coastal dwellers know of what I speak.
But I have never seen anything like this ... and although I am well aware of the predatory nature of jewfish, (I once caught a 320 pounder), .... well, this is a 4' shark ... so you decide how big the jewfish is and imagine if that was you swimming around out there half liquored-up taking a piss in the ocean when all of the sudden - BAM!
It's a goliath jewfish ... and it's a goliath sized gif. 18 mbs but worth watching if you've got a fairly fast connection.
https://giant.gfycat.com/OrnateUnsungCapybara.gif
But I have never seen anything like this ... and although I am well aware of the predatory nature of jewfish, (I once caught a 320 pounder), .... well, this is a 4' shark ... so you decide how big the jewfish is and imagine if that was you swimming around out there half liquored-up taking a piss in the ocean when all of the sudden - BAM!
It's a goliath jewfish ... and it's a goliath sized gif. 18 mbs but worth watching if you've got a fairly fast connection.
https://giant.gfycat.com/OrnateUnsungCapybara.gif
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Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:48 pm to scrooster
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:49 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Oy vey!
Posted on 3/18/15 at 5:51 pm to scrooster
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jewfish
Or as the rest of us call it, a fricking grouper.
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, (I once caught a 320 pounder)
Yeah, sure you did.
Wait, my apologies. I found the evidence.
This post was edited on 3/18/15 at 5:57 pm
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:15 pm to Rebelgator
200lb Goliaths are not rare in the Keys.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:20 pm to SoFla Tideroller
I'm more doubting that he's been outside the nursing home.
I've seen giant ones before. Not really my style.
Tarpon+fly rod= happiness.
I've seen giant ones before. Not really my style.
Tarpon+fly rod= happiness.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:20 pm to scrooster
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you do not jump overboard just to swim in deep ocean waters ...
Does somebody do this?
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:26 pm to scrooster
I have had a Largemouth bass do that to a bream I caught once.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:34 pm to scrooster
That video is older than you, gramps.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:13 pm to Rebelgator
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Tarpon+fly rod= happiness.
Speaking of. A hammerhead on a giant tarpon kind of puts size in perspective as well when one grabs a 200lb tarpon like it's a minnow.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:16 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Especially near "Jew fish Key"...,
Zing!
Yea itsreal.....
Zing!
Yea itsreal.....
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:24 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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200lb Goliaths are not rare in the Keys.
They are not that rare in a lot of places along the East Coast ... especially where there are natural or artificial reefs.
I was sixteen when I caught mine and was too poor to have it mounted, although Dad said he would do it but I mainly wanted the meat ... the boat captain ended-up paying me fifty bucks for the fish and he had it mounted and actually hung it above the bulkhead on his boat.
They can get well-over 600 pds though, but 400 is fairly common. They were very common, much more common back in the 60s and 70s. Speargun fishermen hunted them almost to extinction in the 80s and 90s though, but I keep hearing the fish are making a comeback.
That one, in the gif above, has to be fairly old. I'm guessing that fish is at least a 500 pounder.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:28 pm to DesmondHume
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That video is older than you, gramps.
It happened last August (2014) off the coast of Florida near Bonita Springs.
Here's video complete with audio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O37HI_AX9nY
The reason I did not post the actual gif, at Vol&Shaft83 went ahead and did anyway ... is because it is the largest gif I can ever remember at better than 18 mbs and I didn't want to bog the thread down for someone who does not have a fast connection or was on his phone and suddenly gets his with an 18 mb download.
But Vol&Shaft did it anyway, I'm sure he meant well.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:33 pm to scrooster
I believe this one was caught somewhere along the Bavarian coast.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:40 pm to scrooster
bad goyim
Posted on 3/18/15 at 10:37 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Does somebody do this?
All the time ... all the time.
I did it once in the gulf stream just to say I did it. It's sorta a right of passage when deep sea fishing for some.
I wouldn't do it now at my age. I wouldn't do it again if I went back thirty years knowing what I know now about what can pick you off of the surface and you'd never see it coming ... but, until now, I never considered a jewfish as predatory enough to go after humans on the surface, yet now I've changed my mind.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 11:11 pm to scrooster
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but I mainly wanted the meat
I thought the meat on those goliath grouper wasn't that good.
Never had it myself, just what I've been told.
What do you think Scrooster?
Posted on 3/18/15 at 11:15 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Does somebody do this?
White people?
Posted on 3/18/15 at 11:17 pm to CrimsonTideMD
Probably the same rule that holds true with all fish.
Smaller=better flavor.
2lb catfish>12lb catfish
Smaller=better flavor.
2lb catfish>12lb catfish
Posted on 3/18/15 at 11:43 pm to scrooster
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