Fish commits suicide

[El Presidente]

...things are pretty tough in the ocean when you let Ken catch you 

 

[JohnS]

Or Ken was using rum-flavoured bait? 

[maxcjs0101]

An <insert caption here> in the pic would be good

[Fuzz]

[Fuzz]

[El Presidente]

12 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

[prodigy]

Hahaha that is epic lol

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[westg]

Nice tailor.... He looks happy.

 

[westg]

Ken looks  happy to

[luv2fly]

Still no shoes.

[joeypots]

Any one can catch blue fish.  Found the world over,  sometimes they are in such a frenzy that a clean hook will entice them to bite, no lure or bait. Just a shiny hook. Big ones jump and fight hard enough to make you wonder is the fish is going to pull your arms off. Not bad on the table, either. As long as they are fresh. Too oily to be any good after a few hours. The cheeks are fantastic sashimi. Around here on Cape Cod the big tuna can drive the blues in to shallow water close to shore. When it happens catching them on light tackle can be a blast and a half. 

[TheLiquidGator]

My Dad caught this one in Miami circa 1960. Might be related to the one Ken caught. They certainly do look like kin. My Dad was wearing shoes at the time 

[rckymtn22]

Fraser Island?

[joeypots]

38 minutes ago, TheLiquidGator said:

My Dad caught this one in Miami circa 1960. Might be related to the one Ken caught. They certainly do look like kin. My Dad was wearing shoes at the time 

Family mythology, aka fish stories, has my old man catching a 23 lb blue fish in  the late 70s. 

 

[ayepatz]

@Fuzz, you're a genius!

@El Presidente, can we please have a regular Ken-caption competition?

Puh-leeeeeeeeeeeze???

[Warren]

4 hours ago, TheLiquidGator said:

My Dad caught this one in Miami circa 1960. Might be related to the one Ken caught. They certainly do look like kin. My Dad was wearing shoes at the time 

From the photo it looks like he caught it in the main street.

[Ken Gargett]

be fair! it was a pretty decent tailor. went just over 70cm so probably the largest i've caught. and it was on light gear (with a wonky drag i couldn't "amend" so for the first ten minutes, every 50 metres i wound it, it ended up 80 metres further away).

 

[Ken Gargett]

On 10/14/2017 at 3:35 AM, joeypots said:

Any one can catch blue fish.  Found the world over,  sometimes they are in such a frenzy that a clean hook will entice them to bite, no lure or bait. Just a shiny hook. Big ones jump and fight hard enough to make you wonder is the fish is going to pull your arms off. Not bad on the table, either. As long as they are fresh. Too oily to be any good after a few hours. The cheeks are fantastic sashimi. Around here on Cape Cod the big tuna can drive the blues in to shallow water close to shore. When it happens catching them on light tackle can be a blast and a half. 

pretty much agree. in years past, you could just about throw out a set of keys, if they were in a frenzy. i have a pic somewhere of a day like that and i have a tiny tailor lying against the four hook rig and pillie it attacked. it is literally smaller than the pillie. they just lose control. i've caught them with a set of four hooks and a pilchard in their gut.

ours tend to be quite a bit smaller than those caught in the states. the one i got is not the biggest i have ever seen but you do not see many that size here. fraser island was, for decades, the premium place to catch tailor in australia. but the last few years have been very poor seasons. our group of 6 (although a few don't fish) got three for the week. ted and i got one each off the rocks (in australia, they are mostly caught from beach or rocks) one morning and then this one. and that was three more than a most of guys on the island.

no one seems to know if the huge drop in numbers was the heavy netting that went on for years (though most of it has been stopped for some time now) or they have altered their habits because of climate change or whatever.

they are a great fighting fish, especially if any size. and you are spot on re eating (although it is a topic of debate as i know many who won't touch them). fresh, as good as any fish in the sea - and this one was grilled on the bbq soon after it left the sea and was superb - but after 18-24 hours, fine for fish curries and stews but i'm not a great fan of just as fillets. they are terrific smoked.

[Customsfan]

Nice catch.  Actually makes me miss fishing. Having been in a long time. 

[joeypots]

14 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

pretty much agree. in years past, you could just about throw out a set of keys, if they were in a frenzy. i have a pic somewhere of a day like that and i have a tiny tailor lying against the four hook rig and pillie it attacked. it is literally smaller than the pillie. they just lose control. i've caught them with a set of four hooks and a pilchard in their gut.

ours tend to be quite a bit smaller than those caught in the states. the one i got is not the biggest i have ever seen but you do not see many that size here. fraser island was, for decades, the premium place to catch tailor in australia. but the last few years have been very poor seasons. our group of 6 (although a few don't fish) got three for the week. ted and i got one each off the rocks (in australia, they are mostly caught from beach or rocks) one morning and then this one. and that was three more than a most of guys on the island.

no one seems to know if the huge drop in numbers was the heavy netting that went on for years (though most of it has been stopped for some time now) or they have altered their habits because of climate change or whatever.

they are a great fighting fish, especially if any size. and you are spot on re eating (although it is a topic of debate as i know many who won't touch them). fresh, as good as any fish in the sea - and this one was grilled on the bbq soon after it left the sea and was superb - but after 18-24 hours, fine for fish curries and stews but i'm not a great fan of just as fillets. they are terrific smoked.

I agree as well. We try to gut them and get them iced asap. Family lore has my old man getting a 23 pounder in the early eighties but that was on heavy tackle with wire line. When I was a kid, like 8 years old,  my dad had a boat and he took me and two of my sisters fishing for the first time. We got into an epic blitz off of Monomoy Point in some fog. A fish pulled the fishing rod out of my hands, then the same for my 10 year old sister. We never saw those rods again.