Fishing From a SailBoat???
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never did it but:
Repeating a drift over and over cant be fun
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Drifting seems out of the question - to risky
Can you anchor directly over a wreck? If so, dont see why not.
Ocean Trolling. Can you do a steady 4-6 knots? Pole holders?
Doesnt sound like a job for a one.
Can it be done? Sure.
Question is...WHY?
Repeating a drift over and over cant be fun
Drifting seems out of the question - to risky
Can you anchor directly over a wreck? If so, dont see why not.
Ocean Trolling. Can you do a steady 4-6 knots? Pole holders?
Doesnt sound like a job for a one.
Can it be done? Sure.
Question is...WHY?
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While I have not trolled from a less than 25 ft sailboat, I have trolled literally thousands of miles from a bigger yacht. In the West Indies it was standard practice to drag a line with yellow feathers as we sailed between the Islands. We caught a whole gammut of fish, but seems that the primary catches were Baracuda and Mahi Mahi. One Day we hooked up a marlin though we never landed it.
We regularly trolled on trans Atlantic voyages and more than once hooked up with something that just kept going until we were spooled and it was gone. Caught lots of tunny and Mahi Mahi, amd stuff we never identified but tasted good any way. More than once we caught what I called snake mackeral, long very skinny fish, maybe three or four feet with huge needle like teeth too big to fit in their mouth.
On one trip off the Florida coast while single handing, I caught a monster king fish that was too big for me to wrestle on board. I dragged it until it drown, than hooked it up to the mizzen halyard and winched it up the side of the boat.
On the sailboats trolling is a little different. First you cannot easily stop the boat when you hook up, so what you get has to be cranked in under sail, tackle has to be appropriately scaled. I used a big old Penn reel with heavy dacron line hose clamped directly to the stern rail. Maybe not so sporting, but plenty exciting when the reel sings and you have fresh meat on the other end.
We regularly trolled on trans Atlantic voyages and more than once hooked up with something that just kept going until we were spooled and it was gone. Caught lots of tunny and Mahi Mahi, amd stuff we never identified but tasted good any way. More than once we caught what I called snake mackeral, long very skinny fish, maybe three or four feet with huge needle like teeth too big to fit in their mouth.
On one trip off the Florida coast while single handing, I caught a monster king fish that was too big for me to wrestle on board. I dragged it until it drown, than hooked it up to the mizzen halyard and winched it up the side of the boat.
On the sailboats trolling is a little different. First you cannot easily stop the boat when you hook up, so what you get has to be cranked in under sail, tackle has to be appropriately scaled. I used a big old Penn reel with heavy dacron line hose clamped directly to the stern rail. Maybe not so sporting, but plenty exciting when the reel sings and you have fresh meat on the other end.
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I did some bluewater sailing (approx 2500 miles) on a 42' passport doing a circumnavigation.
We put a feather out every day. The rig was pretty simple- a 50yd shot of 100lb mono was looped onto a railing, and a 3foot length of surgical tubing in the middle was a shock absorber.
We caught loads of mahi and yellowfins just at our hull speed of 7 knots.
We put a feather out every day. The rig was pretty simple- a 50yd shot of 100lb mono was looped onto a railing, and a 3foot length of surgical tubing in the middle was a shock absorber.
We caught loads of mahi and yellowfins just at our hull speed of 7 knots.
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Quailoh wrote:
On one trip off the Florida coast while single handing, I caught a monster king fish that was too big for me to wrestle on board. I dragged it until it drown, than hooked it up to the mizzen halyard and winched it up the side of the boatnecessity is the mother of all invention...funny anecdote Rob!
On one trip off the Florida coast while single handing, I caught a monster king fish that was too big for me to wrestle on board. I dragged it until it drown, than hooked it up to the mizzen halyard and winched it up the side of the boatnecessity is the mother of all invention...funny anecdote Rob!
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