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Quint's Revenge
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 Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: hey old mud (Hand lining) |
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| Do you do any handlining for giants up your way? |
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Old Mud
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Location: Bath, Maine
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: hey old mud (Hand lining) |
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| Quint's Revenge wrote: | | Do you do any handlining for giants up your way? |
Hi Mike: I know a few guys that still handline, but they havn't been out the last couple of years. There hasn't been but a few caught because we have been haveing bait problems. What bait there was was wiped out by the pair trawlers on Jeffries and Platts in July, I was there and saw it first hand!! Not a pretty site to see All that ground fish(Cod, Haddock, Whiting, Pollock etc.) Just culled over the side as bycatch. So much for Mid Water nets. OOPS! Off tract!! Yeah most guys now use rod & reel. If you can afford the gear it is a lot safer!!. If you handline you know what I'm talking about. .
For the most part the older guys are giving up or dying off and that way of life is going with them.
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Quint's Revenge
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: |
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It is just what it sounds like no rod and reel. Some of the supplies needed for handlining are a basket, rope,Anchor balls,mason line, brass shackles,very heavy duty hooks, a harpoon, 15lb blues (live preferably) we also likesd to use whiting,cod, and yes dogfish we used soda bottles for floats and a ton of patience.
This type of fishing is very affective but extremely dangerous. |
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chuckc
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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So basicly it is tug-of-war with a shark!!!!! 
You guys are twisted!!!!!  |
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Old Mud
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:18 am Post subject: |
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LOL. MIKE : You forgot one thing!!!, A bucket of NADS!!. No one ever said Fishermen were SMART !!  . All kidding aside quite a few fishermen were lost in the past ,(pulled over, tangled in lines, etc.) If one can imagine A hook up and 200 fathoms of line screeming out of that basket, in the mean time you'r trying to clear the other lines. Not coiling them neetly into the baskets, but rather just dropping them on the deck!! Starting the engine, dropping the mooring, getting the poon out and making sure the lines are not tangled. Well you get the Idea.LOL. A CLUSTER!!. All of that and for the most part folks that fish handlines would never give it up. ADRENALINE is a wonderfull thing! 
Sorry for the rant got carried away!! I know you know what I'm talking.
Chuck. That's Giant Bluefin TUNA !
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Quint's Revenge
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| Thats right the most important thing is NADS!!!! Mud while reading your last post all of those things played out in color as i am sure they did for you while typing it. Man... there is no bigger rush than after sitting on a ball for 2 days the rope starts ripping out of that basket and the combat begins the screamers were the best 200-300 lbers you never saw rope move so fast in your life. |
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Old Mud
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| sevnseat wrote: | | it sounds like simultaneously the dumbest and coolest thing I've ever heard of. |
HA HA HA Never thought of it that way but YUP !!!! It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on!!! 
I am on my way right NOW!
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