At Fishing Fury, we love shiny things as much as fish do - especially shiny reels. As odd as it may sound, it’s not only important that our reels function well, but that they look great too. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder when it comes to reels though. Personally I prefer the appearance of a round baitcast reel, where as Jon prefers low profile. One thing with both agree on though, is that if we had the money, we would have a serious collection of pimped out reels. Here’s a list of the reels we wish we had, but probably never will.
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Welcome back fishing fans. We disappeared for a while, but now we are back and ready for action. A lot has happened in the last few weeks, the most exciting news of course, is that Gillian and I got engaged!
To the north temperatures are rising steadily and the taste of spring seems to be sending fishermen into a buying frenzy preparing for the upcoming season. Down here in the British Virgin Islands there are no seasons, nor do the fish migrate as they do in Florida. I haven’t taken a break from fishing in more then seven months and life is good.
After an incredible month of tarpon fishing in February the action has died off dramatically in March. Numbers of tarpon are sparse and the ones that are around are not feeding. I try and fish for tarpon at least a couple times a week, my favorite day to fish is Tuesday. About a month ago I sent out invitations too several of my friends here inviting them to Tarpon Tuesday, and each week more and more people show up. While catching the tarpon has proven difficult lately, a variety of beer people and food makes Tarpon Tuesday a successful event each and every week.
This week we will be attempting to catch sharks and we already have a large bucket full of blood and meat ready to be used as chum. With sharks exceeding eight feet in length and dangerous species such as tiger sharks and bull sharks lurking nearby, things promise to be very exciting.
Finally, for all you guys out there who hate being nagged by your significant other about how much time you spend away from her fishing, here is a how-to guide that should solve that problem!
Written by Gillian Hyde
The current Largemouth Bass World Record caught by George Perry (more), has held it’s place for the past 73 years. Withstanding an enormous and growing sportfishing industry, from professionals to amatuers alike. Even a few possible, but not official, contenders to that record have come out in the past 20 years.
But now, we have proof of a record breaking Largemouth Bass topping the scales at 25 pounds.
Mac Weakley of Carlsbad caught what could be the world-record largemouth bass early Monday at Dixon Lake in Escondido.
The bass weighed 25 pounds, 1 ounce on a hand-held scale, which – if approved – would shatter the world record, the 22-pound, 4-ounce bass caught by George W. Perry at Montgomery Lake in Georgia in 1932.
Read more; World-record bass – maybe – pulled from Lake Dixon
However, things aren’t as simple as that day George Perry cast out his one and only lure. Turns out that Mac Weakly didn’t exactly catch the fish. In the previous article Mac does admit the fish was foul-hooked and might not be eligable for the record. The very next day Max retracted his entry.
Late last night, the man better known as Mac Weakley decided he’d had enough of the controversy behind his potential world-record catch, that 25-pound, 1-ounce Queen Kong of a bass he foul-hooked at Dixon Lake on Monday. He decided not to submit the catch to the International Game Fish Association for approval as the all-tackle, world-record largemouth bass.
“It’s a great day, but it’s a bad day,” Weakley said at his home in Carlsbad. “It was a valiant effort. We’ve been trying and trying to catch this fish for years. It’s the world-record bass. Unfortunately, it was foul-hooked.”
Weakley’s monster bass, caught on a Bob Sangster handmade white rattlesnake jig (on 15-pound P-Line monofilament) from Angler’s Arsenal, was weighed on a Berkley BogaGrip, a hand-held scale, but no measurements were taken of the biggest bucketmouth landed in the history of black bass fishing.
Read more; Bass fisherman decides not to submit papers for record, & Record* bass caught at Dixon
Mac’s gonna feel horrible if someone else officially catches this fish before he does. Good luck “Budda”.
Okay, I’ll admit its a hefty 200MB download, the left channel is in Thai, and the right channel is in Japanese. But the fishing in this video is outstanding. Vertical jigging with Butterfly Jigs and similar lures, “yo-yo’ing” as David Jones likes to call it, has got to be one of the more tiresome ways you can fish. Now throw a 100 pound Yellowfin Tuna on the end of your line and you start to see just how awesome this video is.
It looks like a promotional video from a company called King Fisher, but I can’t seem to find anything about them.
Watch the Yellowfin Tuna fishing in Thailand video!
Shimano also has a two really cool videos on Butterfly Jigs, one of which is a really nice introduction for those of you that are unfamiliar with this type of fishing.
& Of course, if you haven’t seen it already, theres the much disputed “jumping fish” video
Update: After numerous downloads with no feedback I have permanently removed this video.
It’s been a while hasn’t it. I hope you didn’t think a little down time could stop the fury. I can’t say that I’ve done much fishing while we’ve been away, maybe Clive will pull out a few more monster tarpon! With any luck I will have a “Lookback 2005″ video , to show off some of our amazing footage from Mexico, in the next two weeks. Then theres the visits to Bass Pro Shops, new tackle, and Toronto Islands I suppose.
Also, Im looking at buying a new low profile baitcaster and rod, anyone have any suggestions? I’ve been thinking about the Quantum Energy PT I just wish they had the 7.0:1 “burner” in left-handed.
Welcome back fishing fans. We disappeared for a while, but now we are back and ready for action. A lot has happened in the last few weeks, the most exciting news of course, is that Gillian and I got engaged!