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Happy 25th Birthday to :guitar: Derek :guitarist: Trucks :guitar:
We Love ya!
Happy 25th birthday, Derek Trucks. :fanfare: Thank you for playing such amazingly beautiful music that stirs my soul.
We're both wrong-the World Record Mako was over 1220 lbs. and it was caught off Martha's Vineyard.
Great Whites are getting smaller and smaller. Ever since Jaws a lot of fishermen kill them on sight, and others get caught in gill nets. Pollution is an issue too.
The real big ones are females, and they just are not reproducing in the numbers that they used to, nor are they being seen in the numbers that they used to.
It's a shame-probably the greatest predator in the Ocean (maybe with the exception of the Killer Whale), at the top of the food chain, but who knows how much longer they will there.
And I read an article today that said Chimpanzees may be extinct in 50 years. The Lowland Gorilla (Silverback) is in the same boat.
Brofan, he may very well have it, or Frank may have moved to Hawaii.
Crabbing is awesome. I used to do that in Bridgehampton years ago, way before I even thought about drinking. I loved tying the chicken onto a string and slowly pulling them unti you could snatch them with the net. I soon graduated to the traps. Blue claws are vicious little buggers. How about a guest book fishing trip?! Anyone?
Happy birthday to Derek Trucks.
Funny-when I was Marlin fishing in Hawaii last year at this time the Captain of the boat I was on said HE had the world record Mako, and it was over 1000 lbs.
You know how fish stories are.
I didn't mention blowfish as junk fish 'cause I kinda liked'em, tastes like chicken! Remember how to clean them, make a deep cut behind the head and pull the head up and back to peel the skin off. Ended up with a triangle piece of meat with the backbone still in. But my favorite was crabbing, bringing back bushel baskets of blue claws and throwing them in a 55 gallon drum of boiling water with steamers and lobster. Wash it down with a couple of Rolling Rocks or Reingolds stolen from the folks cooler. God, heaven on earth!
Carol, Captain Frank Mundis retired a few years ago I believe. He holds the record for the largest Mako too, over 1000 pounds. He was the ultimate salty dog fisherman, kind of like Quint from Jaws. Apparently, that record Great White he caught was the smallest in the lot that was feeding on a whale carcus at the time. They still have the Mako and the Great White hanging up there.
anyone else familiar with Montauk notice that the lobster rolls get smaller in size but increase in price every year ?
Hey now Carol -
I love your posts because they always seem to cheer me up. Thanks so much! BTW, yes, Derek loves to fish.
P.S. If I may make a suggestion, Carol. Every 4th or 5th time that you type "....." could you please hit your Enter key twice? It's hard for an old fart like me to read all that text crammed together without paragraphs. Thanks!
... and a Great Big Guest Book HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Mr. Derek Trucks!
hello beautiful Peacheads....it is such a pleasure coming to this site and reading all the wonderful posts! I LOVE LI fishing stories...Those fabulous Bay Scallops that would pinch your toes, and you gulp a big breathe of salt-air, dive under and grab'em before they swam away.....Catch enough, and throw them on the grill....Dinner...Next time ya'll are out Montauck way, take a peek at that terrible taxidermy job on the sharks head in Salivars Bar and Grill....It must still be there, though you cant really look at it and imagine the enormity of that sucker! I cant swear to the year...maybe 1963? 1964? I do know exactly how much that Great White weighed...4500lbs....I bet it still holds the world record for being caught on a hook..though Fishin Frank over there in Charlotte Harbor will argue till the Milkcow comes home, it wasnt..He's just jealous..I was there. That big boy was caught on a gigantic rod and reel, run with cable, not line, and a hook... Ill never forget Captain Mundis bring that fish in....I loved that crusty old Seaman.....I wonder if he's still around? Mitch? anyone? 4500 lbs of fish is so heavey, when they cranked it up, (upside down with its guts hanging out of its mouth.) it broke the huge rusty sea-chain, snapped through the dock like it was made of toothpicks, and slowly slid down into the water..folks screaming and yelling and runing every which way...all NY hell broke loose.....Here I was, fishing off the dock for baby Blues..a few ounces a piece..last day of vacation...and along comes The Cricket with the biggest fish Ive yet to see...Next time ya'll are out that way, PLEASE take a picture in front of that ole fish.. make me smile! Lil Kevin made me smile around 3am , couple days ago...He's such a great son..Courtney broke my heart last week..again....so to cheer me up, he stuck this huge Bull Redfish in my face.... 3, maybe 330 am....I guess you have to be a fisherman at heart to understand..All I know is, take a kid fishing ya'll..You will have a best friend for life....ESPN is in town for this weekends big (for Punta Gorda ) Redfish Tourny..but Kevin's trophy meant more to me, than the winners will to him, $ or no. Happy Birthday Derek! I love that child..He plays good , too...I wonder does he fish? Peaches, ya'll...Ca
Jacquie - have a wonderful time tonight - hug Warren for me - LOL. I'll keep in touch tomorrow by cell. One more sleep!!
fly-fishing for trout, thats what im about,..but i love it all
Is anyone going to see Warren tonight?
I live in Long Beach so I know all these places in Point Lookout you guys are talking about. There's a great clam shack by the bay where you order steamers and all sorts of fried fish through a window and an old lady smoking malboro reds takes your order and serves bud drafts.
My favorite part about fishing those docks is the characters down there. One old timer used to tell me about his Naval service in WW II. All he would say was " I was on an Island.............between...................Africa..........and ............South America !
Me and my friends would catch snappers for fun and throw them back. He would claim to love them to eat so he would rush over to us and take them off our hooks and keep them. I noticed he would often take our bait off the hook and pocket it if was still on there.
Funny memories.
It was on the bay side, it was called Brown Brothers. It was originally my grandfather's business, when he owned the business though, the office was on Spring Street in NYC, then they moved out to Long Island. The last name was Ferrari. My father always jokes, "I'm married to a Ferrari, not the car people....the fish people."
Begaulls are terrible, they are bait theives.
Heh...just saw "puffers" on the menu at LUNCH out in Montauk. Uh, I opted for the lobster! :lick:
Hey Jim,
Was that lobster place on the Bay side? If so I remember it well. I used to hang out in PL with a NYC EMT I used to work with who was a member of The PL and Lido FD. There was a bar right across the street from the firehouse that I spent many a day in after fishing. I also remember the junk fish and can add the Blowfish and Begaulle. Not sure of the spelling on the last one. Don't see many Blowfish anymore. We used to fish in The Bellmore Canal right in back of my friends house and caught a lot of good fish there. Those were certainly great days. Many more to come.
Be safe,
John
I haven't been fishing since I was a kid. I was born at Great Yarmouth on the coast of Norfolk ans my Grandfather was a Trawlerman, spent all year following the shoals of Herring around the coast of the British Isles.
Still call by the harbour whenever I go home to visit my brother who still lives there, and buy fish direct from the fishermen caught that morning, can't beat fresh fish.
:birthday: HAPPY 25TH DEREK, HAPPY 60TH BOZ :birthday:
Woody, that is hilarious you mention the sea robbin. I was watching a public acess show from NYC the other night called the Urban Angler, and they film party boats. The majority of the people were catching sea robbins, I was dying laughing. We always joke about having a sea robbin po boy. Or what about the infamous spider crab, are those things scary or what?