Can you come over here and help me?

Rik · Post by **Rik** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:32 am

I arrived a bit late at our fishing spot this morning and found Dave already out on the water with bait in the water. I launched and quickly dropped my sabiki in to get some bait when I noticed Dave was hooked up with something. I could tell it wasn’t a tarpon so I didn’t think he’d need help. I was wrong.

“Can you come over here and help me?”

No panic sound in the request but I did notice he was fiddling around with something in the cockpit. I reeled my sabiki up but not in and paddled over. What I found was that Dave had fishing line running all over the place. He’d been fishing two rods and the lines were tangled. The line without the fish was wrapped up in his anchor line, wrapped around the running line to the fish, snagged on a few other things and just generally making a spider web all over the place.

This is about when we first get sight of the fish on his line, a 3+ foot Kingfish, which was not happy at all and doing it’s best to zip off towards every point on the compass. I came along side Dave’s kayak and first looked to figure out the mess until Dave gave me very specific and stern instructions, “Just cut the damn line!”. I grabbed for my scissors and made a quick cut. Since the kingfish is now under me I pushed off to give Dave space to fight the fish.

Dave reels the fish back out from under me and the fish is now about done. Dave has it under control bringing it alongside his kayak. Remember that sabiki I reeled up but not in? It is now tangled with Dave’s line to the kingfish. This just keeps getting better.

Dave gets his hook out of the kingfish, it darts away but my sabiki is still snagged on Dave’s boat. One more mess to figure out. I’m pulling, he’s twisting around trying to find it until, hmmmmm, my line is swimming away. I’m not snagged on his boat. I have a 20 pound kingfish on my sabiki!

Thankfully the fish was already tired out. 6 pound mono and 3+ feet of kingfish don’t go well together. I managed to get the kingfish to my kayak with a great amount of trepidation. The fish was hooked on one sabiki hook in the jaw. All I could envision is the light hook coming out and 5 sabiki hooks flying at my head. Just as I got its head to the surface alongside, boy do they have a bunch of teeth, the light sabiki line broke.

As the fish swam away, all Dave and could do was laugh. And be thankful there were no video cameras.

DaveR · Post by **DaveR** » Mon May 07, 2012 11:01 am

Mayhem!

Todd · Post by **Todd** » Mon May 07, 2012 11:12 am

Rookies.

Rik · Post by **Rik** » Mon May 07, 2012 11:14 am

Rookies? YOU go catch a 20 pound kingfish on a sabiki rig.

DaveR · Post by **DaveR** » Mon May 07, 2012 11:18 am

Last tangle to undo was Rik's bait master. Barnacle was hog tied! A bit later Rik almost had a big bunch of tarpon in his lap. Quite a morning.

1okbyme2 · Post by **1okbyme2** » Mon May 07, 2012 3:55 pm

& some folks call this sport boring....

MarkM · Post by **MarkM** » Mon May 07, 2012 4:08 pm

You'd think you two clowns would know what you're doing by now.

Sounds like fun. Wish I coulda been there.

DaveR · Post by **DaveR** » Mon May 07, 2012 4:24 pm

You know the place Mark. I'll bet you could find it sober!

Ump608 · Post by **Ump608** » Mon May 07, 2012 7:29 pm

Saw Shamus at the gym this afternoon, I got the shortened version of the antics. Gotta admit much funnier long version.

Manning · Post by **Manning** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:47 pm

You know when I heard that some were fishing two lines I pictured something like this. Sounds like you guys had a good time.

ZeroSix · Post by **ZeroSix** » Wed May 09, 2012 8:09 pm

Sounds like another adventure etched into the longterm. Great story.

SRQGator · Post by **SRQGator** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:40 am

Ump608 wrote:...Shamus at the gym...

Working on his range of motion with the geriatric therapist?

TerryW · Post by **TerryW** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:37 pm

It's sure good to know that the pros have mishaps. When I started reading this, I was afraid there would be a shark in the story. Glad it was only some line & a kingfish that was lost.

shamus · Post by **shamus** » Sat May 12, 2012 4:20 pm

Working on his range of motion with the geriatric therapist?

Yup want to be limper. Wouldn't want to pull a hamstring when I put my foot up your arse whippersnapper. PS a little gym time wouldn't hurt you either.

Rik · Post by **Rik** » Sat May 12, 2012 11:00 pm

shamus wrote:
Yup want to be limper.

Working on your wrists?

CooKnFish · Post by **CooKnFish** » Sun May 13, 2012 8:18 am

Yep... Now there's a story I expect to hear from live baiters.

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