Been wanting to go do some grouper fishing so started watching videos. Ran into this gem and just made me rethink grouper fishing. Maybe I’ll stick to bass.
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That's pretty awesome but as an avid coastal and freshwater fisherman, i can tell ya they were set up for failure right from the start. I've caught a few while anchored at oil platforms. This way makes a helluva video though. Youtube dollas y'all!
1) they arent using the harness which makes a HUGE difference. If you aren't familiar, it connects to the eyelets on the top of the reel so you aren't supporting everything with your arms.
2) once they reel out the slack the guide slams the drag to like 95%. That would never happen. Too easy to lose your gear & fish that way.
3) they do make gunnel pads for a reason
4) some of them also have rod holders specifically aimed for large drop fishing.
1) they arent using the harness which makes a HUGE difference. If you aren't familiar, it connects to the eyelets on the top of the reel so you aren't supporting everything with your arms.
2) once they reel out the slack the guide slams the drag to like 95%. That would never happen. Too easy to lose your gear & fish that way.
3) they do make gunnel pads for a reason
4) some of them also have rod holders specifically aimed for large drop fishing.
Been fishing offshore just never for grouper and I figured this isn’t the way you would normally fish for them. But the size of them is crazy! Looks fun though! I fish mostly fresh water now since we have a private lake. Basically learned fresh water fishing on it. Fun! Never thought I’d be fishing for bass instead of trout and reds.
Caught a shit load of AmberJack and Grouper when on my rig offshore with rope and a hook welder made, put a bait fish and throw hook down on plate at bottom of rig and boom, catch Amberjack that takes 3 of ya to bring up, lots of fun , roll them in La hot sauce and mustard then cornmeal and hit the grease, damn good
Yeah they get huge. In the dead of winter giant bluefin tuna come super close to the NC Outer Banks shoreline and let me tell ya, those suckers are brutal too. A 300lb fish built for speed is a blast. We kept a few lbs each and sold the rest to a local market which paid for our $1400 guide boat and drinking money later. Fun experience.
Thats the way to do it!, funny Fresh, I was coming in to change shifts a Grand Isle and got to the dock and another rigs crew was changing too, but, they had 7 of them drunk cajuns trying to load a damn grouper that was so big that had a uhaul 8x10 and bought half the ice GI, and they was drunk drinking the High life, funny as shit, good times in the oil patch, the thing I most hated when Helos couldn't fly cause of fog on crew change day, them 7 hr crew boats hateful
Yeah, I've heard some crazy stories about y'all platform workers. Not for me sir, not for me.
"I'll crap in the bushes in a war zone with hadjis all around me while I drop bombs on their stupid heads, but I draw the line at offshore platforms...."
Makes total sense.
Edit for: "as long as my toes are warm"
I was 150 miles out, took almost a hr by Helo, its not bad on Platform, I worked on a jack up for about 6 months and transferred to Platform,had a Work boat hit one of the legs one nite in rough seas and we had to sleep on Helipad till they fixed it, had a workboat ancored out off the rig and the seas was big Mofos and next morn could not find workboat, they found out that during the night the seas got big and all that drill pipe shifted and it rolled over and sunk, divers found the boat , all hands in gally eating was died, if ya want a dangerous job them damn Rig and salvage divers are Pros, lot of them were Navy seals in Navy before they got out. they go way deep with mixed air and shit, now that's dangerous...lol
I stayed out for 3 or 4 weeks at a time made 15000, not bad, and the food is 5 star
I stayed out for 3 or 4 weeks at a time made 15000, not bad, and the food is 5 star
"I'll crap in the bushes in a war zone with hadjis all around me while I drop bombs on their stupid heads, but I draw the line at offshore platforms...."
Makes total sense.
Edit for: "as long as my toes are warm"
Listen up Mr Clob94, you and I are just about the same age so I know you have that wizdom thing starting to creep in too. Might not listen much yet but we hear it.Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we HAVE to do it.
Seeing the sheer amount of incompetent losers I interact with in the oilfield on a daily basis, there's no way I'd want to be stuck on a tiny metal island living in a real life episode of jackass 24/7 30days at a time.
Someone's getting thrown over or I'm gonna be swimming open water for land.
p.s. leave my comfy heated deer blind out of this. I did it for the kids......think of the children clob!
I'm dying fvcking laughing right now. A myriad of reasons.Listen up Mr Clob94, you and I are just about the same age so I know you have that wizdom thing starting to creep in too. Might not listen much yet but we hear it.Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we HAVE to do it.
Seeing the sheer amount of incompetent losers I interact with in the oilfield on a daily basis, there's no way I'd want to be stuck on a tiny metal island living in a real life episode of jackass 24/7 30days at a time.
Someone's getting thrown over or I'm gonna be swimming open water for land.
p.s. leave my comfy heated deer blind out of this. I did it for the kids......think of the children clob!
Funny true story that I didn't know until my father's funeral 5 years ago--
In '68 my father, who was a petroleum guy, convinced my mom to move to Alaska because he was offered the job as the platform big boss in the cook inlet on a platform named the King salmon. Well the platform just NNE of them was named the Dolly Varden. Well, the dude that was put in charge of the Dolly Varden was this class room wiz kid nerd and he aparently was a smoker. Well the toilet in the command room had been leaking over and over again and was regularly out of order. So this dude used to simply step outside, have a smoke and whiz right off the edge of the platform.
So one night, early in the winter, they'd had their first freeze that froze over the water in the Cook inlet. So the story goes that super nerd needed a smoke and to relieve his bladder and out the door he goes to his normal spot to piss. He lights his cig up and whips it out and WOOOOSH--- a tearing gust of wind catches this guy and off the edge of the platform he goes. Now had this have happened in the summer time, homeboy likely would have survived the 60+ foot fall into the water though he'd probably have some broken bones to show for it. Unfortunately for him, there was a good layer of ice on the sea below and, well, he died with his dick in his hand.
My dad used to say to me from time to time when I'd do something stupid --- "boy, stop doing stupid shit or one day you'll die with your dick in your hand...".
It took him dying before I knew where that saying came from.
"I'll crap in the bushes in a war zone with hadjis all around me while I drop bombs on their stupid heads, but I draw the line at offshore platforms...."
Makes total sense.
Edit for: "as long as my toes are warm"
The Helo ride would probably kill ya anyway bro
Nah, I've logged my fair share of rides. Oddly enough, I do prefer having 2 feet on the ground though.The Helo ride would probably kill ya anyway bro
Not scared of Helo rides Fresh it was the RPG's firing at ya! I rode one down after a RPG clipped the tail rotor, we had a dam good Warrant flying , got us all down safe, had to call a Hook to come get the aircraft, after I cleaned the shit outa my pants....lol, my life passed in front of me in Technicolor...lol Every time you fought them little mfers, they start with the RPG's, Russia musta made a lot of money.
Ah hell fb, I thought we were talking about the helo ride to and from offshore platforms. You're very lucky to have made it back brother. God wanted you to keep giving the sooners hell.
Hell there was no RPG's in the Gulf, we was 150 miles out, you get use to it after a while, the big paychecks spoil ya
Well, as many times as I cleaned the shit outa my pants I was a wondering if he did, did you ever shit in your pants when the shit started flying Fresh? Be Truthful...LOL
Ha!
No literal poopy pants for me. Honestly, I think there's something in modern mre's that stop you up anyways. That and "soft peter". I'm telling ya, rare movements and no flag poles.
Just like Ham & *****ing Limas?...LOL,,Vietnamese would even eat them, we had c rats left over from WW2 seems like, the Lrrps only ones that had them in field unless ya could talk a trade
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