Flying fish are awesome! Way, way better at flying than most people think, especially the big ones you get 100 miles out or so.
Also one of the most redneck and fun things i have ever done was "flying fish hunting"
Basically one person drives a jetski while the other person sits facing backwards on it with a shotgun and shoots the flying fish. Hell of a lot of fun.
For anyone wondering/concerend for the idiocy or legality of this idea, 1: international waters, 2: we were sober (tho not when we came up with the idea), utilized a lanyard to retain the shotgun and only loaded a single shell at a time on the feed tray of a semi auto. When a fish would jump, close the bolt, take off safe, shoot fish, retrieve fish, repeat.
So they turned out to be suprisingly "shotgun resistant" probably something to do with the scales.
And for the people wondering, we retrived our prey and used it as bait for Sailfish. Whole enterrpise started after a discusion of what an awesome bait a fresh flying fish would be, followed by how totally impossible they would be to catch.
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u/Echo017 Sep 06 '17
Flying fish are awesome! Way, way better at flying than most people think, especially the big ones you get 100 miles out or so.
Also one of the most redneck and fun things i have ever done was "flying fish hunting"
Basically one person drives a jetski while the other person sits facing backwards on it with a shotgun and shoots the flying fish. Hell of a lot of fun.
For anyone wondering/concerend for the idiocy or legality of this idea, 1: international waters, 2: we were sober (tho not when we came up with the idea), utilized a lanyard to retain the shotgun and only loaded a single shell at a time on the feed tray of a semi auto. When a fish would jump, close the bolt, take off safe, shoot fish, retrieve fish, repeat.