On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:52:06 -0400, "NOYB" wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

He got a big hit that pulled some drag but then
broke him off. Some idiot in a Century must have seen him fighting the
fish, because he tried anchoring up current about 50 feet from me. Dumbass.

Glad to hear your boy is ok - those kind of things are scary.

I've had similar experiences, but the best one was fishing Lord's
Passage on the Westerly Reef off the Westerly USCG station. I was
fishing East of the reef and on the other side of the channel - the
reef was between me and the channel.

I latched onto a really nice mahi and some clown in a big Whaler
rigged for offshore, cut out of the channel headed towards me just as
a wave lifted off the reef. He went up, went down and stayed down
hitting the reef so hard, his hull caught up on the rocks. A minute
or so later, all you saw was three guys sitting on the T-top rocking
back and forth as the boat was swamped and bouncing up and down on the
reef.

I took pity on them and got them off the T-top by using a rescue bag
and throwing over life preservers - I wasn't about to try and get next
to them. They wanted to get rescued, they were gonna have to swim -
with a little assistance.

Dumbasses.