one of my great days a few years back... no dinks, all fish caught that day were big... I have not had a day like that since :(

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What's the limit in NC? It's 15 here in Missouri.

On that lake as many as you want to take.... On others it's 20 per person and they have to be atleast 8 inches

Heh, yea, no.
Diesel Mechanic buddy has his man cave walls covered with that crap, but he’s a Raiduhz fan so, you know…….

meh. that's no Hattori Hanzo sword

Yeah, they're pretty common up here as well in the illinois river, used to catch them all of the time trotlining as a kid & like Sofa said, they're considered trash fish & nuisances, they'd be killed & thrown out or given to us kids to ooh n ahh over.

Thinking my method will be simple topwater bobber fishing, using back hooked live bait, i'm planning to head south a few hundred miles for vacation this year & fish the mighty miss for them, i'll prolly have better luck getting decent sized ones than on the illinois river, this things choked up with these damned asian carp.

That sucks.
I don’t catch every episode but when there’s nothing else on I’ll watch Hillbilly Hand Fishing and it’s surprising how many of them are in the Red River. They had one come flying out of the water and nailed this model chick straight in the face, gave her a big ole black eye.

I just realized I never shared this pic from when I went to Hawaii last fall. Cutting myself (other than the arm) out of it so I don't end up as Fisty :)

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Oh man you are lucky! We only caught a couple of tuna at the end of the trip (6 hour trip). Who did you get your charter through? We used Maggie Joe.

Also, you won't end up as fisty unless you have a reeruned tattoo.

Nice sails. Did you mount them or something?

I think the ship captains keep them and take them to market.

After doing some research online, I ended up using "Wild Bunch".
The sailfish wasn't mine, I got lucky enough to get the marlin (207 pounds)
Didn't keep any part of them, as loochy said, the boat keeps pretty much everything to help keep the charter costs down.

Our captain was super cool. They kept the bigeye tuna that we caught and they gave us the yellowfin to eat. I think the policy on our boat was that we get to keep half of any fish under 100 lbs and anything over 100 lbs was the captain's property.

How tired did you get while you were bringing that thing in? I got pretty tired with my little 30 lb tuna.

I never caught a marlin, but I've caught a bunch of sailfish. My parents were crazy into deep sea fishing when I was growing up. They'd go to the Cabo area (without me) a couple of times a year.

I'm sort of surprised that they keep bill fish in Hawaii. In Mexico, from what I remember, they'd keep them if the fish wasn't going to be revived. Now mahi mahi... we ate those bastards like crazy.

Well ****. Was hammering some pike at the lake last night, and i hooked a monster. He ran to the boat, turned and ran away, which is the exact moment i realized my drag wasn't set right, he pulled, the line exploded, and i lost my favorite lure. The same lure i caught that big bass on last year. ****. Guess I'll need to buy more. I have 1 backup already.

Had to be 10 lbs. Gonna restring my line as well.