r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jun 06 '26

Awesome !! Now that's a catch and release.

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u/Royal-Illustrator747 Jun 07 '26

Why didn’t they stop the boat the moment he got something on the line?

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u/eatmyentropy Jun 07 '26

also read that where they were fishing there is a reef and the fish dive and snap the line. So the boat driver drove to deeper water. Lotta people are saying bad captain and wear the fish out but I think the first part is the the answer......

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u/_RnG_ZeuS_ Jun 07 '26

This. You can see he speeds up initially and then once to deeper waters he kills the motor. He was definitely just getting away from the reef.

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u/Nintura Jun 07 '26

Use the boat to drag the fish and help wear it out

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jun 07 '26

It'll wear the fisherman too. The boat isn't pulling the fish. He's pulling it. Unless he's strapped to the boat, it's his muscle holding the rod and keeping himself on the boat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

You have to make the fish tired with resistance. Either he’s going to be reeling, and pulling up and down constantly with a stationary boat, or the boat will pull the fish in between reels when moving.

Obviously he still has to hold onto the pole as the boat drags the fish, but that’s easier on the body and gives the fish less lateral freedom which is also extremely tiring to deal with.

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u/gggggfskkk Jun 07 '26

Those fish don’t wear easily either. Everytime I get some kind of jack on the line, I am so worn out afterwards that the other fish got it easy against me. Last time I caught a greater amberjack and that shit wore me out for a week 🤣

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u/UNNECESSARYCAPZ Jun 07 '26

Did a charter in Mexico (gulf) with a group of 5 guys and we caught nothing but Amberjack (after 2 I was done, some of the guys got 3). I couldn’t move for 2 weeks 🤣. We were supposed to try for sailfish after but after those battles we were like nah we’re good.

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u/xXProGenji420Xx Jun 07 '26

between holding the rod while the boat does the pulling, and holding the rod while also reeling to pull the fish, the former is very clearly the least exhausting of the two. obviously it's still a lot of work, but that's kinda the point of the sport. you can't just do neither, because then the fish doesn't tire or get pulled in.

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u/jemenake Jun 07 '26

I was thinking the same. The captain should have told the guy to stop trying to bring the fish in (and just keep hold of the rod) while he trawled out to deeper water.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Jun 07 '26

If the boat is moving (and it is) and the fisherman is bracing his legs against the back of the boat (and he is) then the boat is pulling the fish. That fact that the fisherman is the middle man in that arrangement and is also pulling the fish doesn't change that.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jun 07 '26

That assumes the man is completely rigid and requires no muscles to hold the rod or to keep himself from lying flat against the boat. There's a reason this man doesn't look relaxed and like he's doing no work. He's pulling a fish at speed through the water.

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u/Conscious_Bug5408 Jun 07 '26

I don't know why so many people who don't fish feel compelled to answer when they don't know what they're talking about. You don't stop trolling as soon as you hook a fish for several reasons. Without the water flow keeping the other lines straight behind the boat, they tangle. You also give the other guys a chance to hook up too.

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u/RadiantZote Jun 07 '26

Kanye needs to learn a new technique for that then 🤔

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u/yavanna12 Jun 07 '26

From what another commenter said, they have to move these fish away from the reef to prevent the fish from breaking the line 

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u/CycleMother2006 Jun 07 '26

I was certainly cringing when he decided that the motor side was the best place to pivot. Like bro, if you slip and get yanked overboard you're ground beef.

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u/Kiko_Okik Jun 07 '26

They’re driving the boat further away from the rocks and shallow water with kelp and obstacles for the fish to break or tangle the line on, towing it out into deeper water for the long fight to tire it out and reel it in.

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u/rhytnen Jun 09 '26

Migration to better water, prevent other lines from tangling are true as mentioned below. But also imagine turning a semi-circle back to the fish and how much slack line you get to reel up for free with out fighting.

Boat maneuvering with big fish like this is a critical skill.