We used a cedar plug trailing on a heavy mono line joined to surgical tubing coming back from Hawaii last year, got a nice mahi and a nice albacore within minutes. A spray bottle of vodka dispatched them amazingly quickly. One shot into each gill and that was that. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ecj52bdEiCo/VGP0OQZFptI/AAAAAAAACts/31i7niiJYkM/w1238-h820-no/DSC_9432.jpg
Jim Watts Paradigm Shift C&C 35 Mk III Victoria, BC On 18 June 2015 at 17:51, Frederick G Street via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > The mahi seem to favor neon-green squid lures. I think we had a 40-lb > nylon hand line out with a stainless leader and the squid. > > Fred Street -- Minneapolis > S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI > > On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > > Knife? Cut off the head, drink the vodka. > > On a delivery from Tonga to New Zealand we caught a 70lb yellow fin tuna. > The vodka trick came in handy. That fish was particularly pissed off to > find itself winched up a backstay and being readied to be butchered into > football sized roasts. > > On the Tonga/NZ trip there were three avid fishermen on board with > offshore rods and reels. My job was to sail the boat to keep the lines > from the two rods from getting under the boat (a 46’ Barnett custom). The > fishing line was +-200lb test, the leader SS braid, the hook a big a** #3 > treble, the lures were squid like. After several hours of landing mahi, > wahoo, and some sort of jack (some ½ eaten by the sharks) both rods sung > out at the same time. The guys responsible for the rods were stuffing > tennis shoes into the reel area to help the brakes. After 20 minutes of > fighting, we landed the small tuna (the 70lb’r), the big one broke the line > and got away. > > I will put together a short list of what worked for fishing from a racing > sailboat in the NE Pacific. I claim no expertise but I have picked up a > few easy no-rod tricks that seemed to work between Hawaii and the US West > Coast. > > Martin DeYoung > Calypso > 1971 C&C 43 > Seattle > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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