Shot some Amberjacks yesterday at the South Tower.

[Mike McCabe]

Got in the water yesterday at the South Tower and shot 5 Amberjacks with the biggest one being 55 lbs. Had my good friend Jay in the water doing the camera work. Visability was great and the water temp was right at 76 degrees.

Mike-Red Eye
24 Topaz

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[Kingmiker]

55 lbs - Go on with your bad self. Congrats on shooting a fish that big. I was out there week before last and I shot a couple 25 - 30 lbers and I was looking for the smallest fish to shoot when I was out there. If you don't mind me asking, how was your gun rigged, looks like you guys were using a slip tip. I'm psuedo new to shooting the bigger fish, been shooting spades and smaller fish for years but this was my first successful trip shooting big fish. I was rigged with the spear connected directly to the float line connected back to the boat. Was a bit paranoid of a fish swimming off with my gun. I would shoot - drop the gun (connected to my weight belt) and the fight the fish. Had to fight the first one, stoned the second.
Good job - keep up the good work.

Mike

[Special D]

Sounds like a good time and great pics. Glad y'all had fun.

[Capt.Nick]

Wouldn't dynamite be easier?

[Mike McCabe]

55 lbs - Go on with your bad self. Congrats on shooting a fish that big. I was out there week before last and I shot a couple 25 - 30 lbers and I was looking for the smallest fish to shoot when I was out there. If you don't mind me asking, how was your gun rigged, looks like you guys were using a slip tip. I'm psuedo new to shooting the bigger fish, been shooting spades and smaller fish for years but this was my first successful trip shooting big fish. I was rigged with the spear connected directly to the float line connected back to the boat. Was a bit paranoid of a fish swimming off with my gun. I would shoot - drop the gun (connected to my weight belt) and the fight the fish. Had to fight the first one, stoned the second.
Good job - keep up the good work.

Mike

Hey Mike,
Thanks for the kind words man. My gun is a Riffe Hawaiian outfitted with a Riffe reel and a teakwood stabilizer wing. The dyneema line on the reel is loop to loop to the shooting line crimped to the spear. The tip is a break away. I prefer fighting big fish on a gun outfitted with a reel over a gun with a float and release. I've used both and I just don't like trailing a float behind me. I shoot the fish, let the fish do what it's gonna do and then I put the reel in free spool and push the gun aside to fight the fish and wire him to me as you would wire a billfish to the back of the boat to tag and release him. If I have to dump the line while I'm fighting him, the line will be able to come off of the reel without pulling the gun under water. I get the fish to me and finish him with the Kershaw.

Capt.Nick
Dynamite is the easy way out.

Thanks Special D !!


Mike-Red Eye
24 Topaz

[27 sailfish]

Thump - WHACK - cool deal on the reef donkeys. They are some brutes.