OT: Why Santa is not coming this year
OT: Why Santa is not coming this year
Sorry guys, this was emailed to me and I laughed so hard my stomach still hurts.
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- Tako_Kichi
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So I don't further abuse forum priviledges with yet another the OT thread, here is yours truly hand feeding a 300+ lb Goliath Grouper from my boat at Fort Jefferson in The Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZuAaxi0kMxE
Amazing how fast these huge fish suck in food. They are known to grow to well over 600 pounds The ones in the video clip are like small Volkswagen cars.
In case anyone ever wondered, my forum handle is the make of my boat - SeaVee. My little 29 foot baby is called the "Raising Cane" after my lifelong love of the University of Miami Hurricanes (American) football team. I am a proud graduate (many years ago) of the school with the team that is perhaps the most hated of any by the rest of the U.S. - and I love it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZuAaxi0kMxE
Amazing how fast these huge fish suck in food. They are known to grow to well over 600 pounds The ones in the video clip are like small Volkswagen cars.
In case anyone ever wondered, my forum handle is the make of my boat - SeaVee. My little 29 foot baby is called the "Raising Cane" after my lifelong love of the University of Miami Hurricanes (American) football team. I am a proud graduate (many years ago) of the school with the team that is perhaps the most hated of any by the rest of the U.S. - and I love it.
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I know. Groupers are suction feeders. Their mouths are huge and they basically open them very fast causing the water just outside to be sucked in - along with whatever fish is in front. The fish i was holding were very slimy - almost slipping out of my hand. I made sure to barely hold them and keep my hand out of the water. The grouper won't ever lift his head out of the water to feed. As long as I don't try to deliberately hold onto the fish or put my hand actually in the water along with it all I do is let the suction of the water pull the fish out of my hand. It looks scary but its actually not really. I and others have done it for years and no one has ever been bitten AFAIK.stickman wrote:"Watch yer hand!"
Goliath Groupers (previously called Jewfish) however have killed spearfishermen many times (including a thirty ish pounder recently killed a guy in the Keys). There are uncomfirmed reports of very large ones swallowing spearfishing divers whole.
Most times where divers have been killed was that they speared the Goliath which then ran into a rock hole dragging the spearfisherman in with him, trapping and drowning him. That is what happened to the guy in the Keys a few months ago. He got tangled in the line on the spear, was free-diving (no scuba tank) and was alone and could not get free of the line and drowned.
He broke several cardinal rules of diving and it cost his life, shame. Plus he illegally speared a protected species (Goliaths can not be fished or speared here). The grouper that killed him was only about 30 pounds but once inside a rock they wedge themselves in and are very, very strong.
As far as the Santa hunting pic, I hope that was photoshopped. No idea on the background or identity of the picture - it has circulated in the 'net for a while. I don't understand hunting animals, much less with firearms. I've shot competitively at the target range for years at paper targets but have never and will never hunt an animal - but thats just me. Even fishing we release most of what we catch and keep only a handful that we eat. I never kill fish just for fun.
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Anytime you or any of the other "Shockwave BoB2ers" are going to be in Miami drop me a PM and I'll try to get you out fishing.MurrayCod wrote:the fish video looked like a great way to spend an afternoon. I am envious.
I've been pretty busy of late - last time I took out the boat was in early October '06.... I am hurting for some fishing/boating and looking forward to next year's "big vacation". My wife and I and another couple rented a house on Great Guana Cay. Wifey, my little daughter and Jorge's wife will fly over to Marsh Harbor while Jorge and I will run the boat over and pick them up. Great Guana Cay is in the Abacos, Bahamas. Its about a 200 mile run and while my boat is very capable and I have tons of safety stuff (liferaft, EPIRBs, VHFs, etc) I'd rather not have the girls on the run over and back on a 29 foot boat. Now THAT will be fun.
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