[omega3]

Hi
Apart from the odd bit of Mackeral fishing locally the sea fishing I do seems to be in places where you put anything with a hook in the water you catch a nice fish ie. GOM and while bringing it in a bigger fish takes that one and so on is the joke!

My last rig was some heavy duty mono, weight, trace and hooks(100lb at a guess) borrowed off the Italian engineers. A handle I made myself from marine ply. With a few of the hooks and stainless steel band from a pipeline armour jacket bander I made some lures. The remoras just couldn`t keep away from these!!!! so I gave up on them but it was fun trying to stick them onto unsuspecting colleagues or Yokohamas. On prawns from the galley I caught 67 small Tuna in an evening on one evening. The Italians called them "Tunni" and the Phillipinos had them made into a great soup!

Was always after the Barracuda though and used to send off a live hooked Tunni to find one but it didn`t work as half the time only half a tunni came back or was ripped open. One of the engineers with a rod setup got a monster though. There was also a 6-7 foot wahoo living off the stinger but it just wasn`t interested in anything thrown at it and would turn and face the other way.

The Phillipinos all were good at catching fish which they used to dry on board an send home. The Norwegians do this too with cod on the vessels locally and it is... minging! they don`t like us fishing at work in the N sea. though I sometimes see a line sneekily dangling from somewhere!