What Do You Do When A Fish Short Lines You?

[Catch and Grease]

Happened to me yesterday I yanked to set the hook slapped my uncle right across the face with my worm. Yes I missed him

Lol I remember saltwater fishing for anything that was biting one day and a big lady fish bit my lure, which was a lipped bait with 3 treble hooks on it. I set the hook right at the boat and it flew out and hit me in my eyeball and maybe my eye really red. How I didn't get my face messed or or go blind from a hook in the eye beats me...

I never wear sunglasses but accidents like that make me want some

[SirSnookalot]

Lol I remember saltwater fishing for anything that was biting one day and a big lady fish bit my lure, which was a lipped bait with 3 treble hooks on it. I set the hook right at the boat and it flew out and hit me in my eyeball and maybe my eye really red. How I didn't get my face messed or or go blind from a hook in the eye beats me...

I never wear sunglasses but accidents like that make me want some

Ladyfish aka poor man's tarpon have about the hardest mouth of any fish I have ever caught, hook ups don't always happen with them.  Seldom if ever do I set a hook in saltwater, I just raise the rod and let the power of the fish set it.

[Catch and Grease]

Ladyfish aka poor man's tarpon have about the hardest mouth of any fish I have ever caught, hook ups don't always happen with them. Seldom if ever do I set a hook in saltwater, I just raise the rod and let the power of the fish set it.

They are very fun to catch and pretty easy to catch IMO they fight decent, but they crap all over your boat if you have one jump in! I was fight one and it jumped in the boat and hit my dad in the head haha

[RoLo]

 

Ladyfish aka poor man's tarpon have about the hardest mouth of any fish I have ever caught, hook ups don't always happen with them.  Seldom if ever do I set a hook in saltwater, I just raise the rod and let the power of the fish set it.

 

Don't ask me why, but they're also called 'Ten-Pounder'. 

The world-record ladyfish weighed 8 pounds  

 

Roger

[Catch and Grease]

Don't ask me why, but they're also called 'Ten-Pounder'.

The world-record ladyfish weighed 8 pounds

Roger

The world record is 20 something pounds I thought? Maybe were not thinking of the same "lady fish" I'm thinking of the one that craps everywhere when landed

[Dwight Hottle]

The world record is 20 something pounds I thought? Maybe were not thinking of the same "lady fish" I'm thinking of the one that craps everywhere when landed

 

Rolo is spot on 8 lbs is the all tackle record. And yes they do crap all over the boat. Most captains & boat owners do not want them in the boat for that very reason. Unhook them over the water.

 

http://wrec.igfa.org/WRecordsList.aspx?lc=AllTackle&cn=Ladyfish

[Catch and Grease]

Ahh okay thanks for clearing that up, I dunno where I got 20lbs from

[SirSnookalot]

I had read a few years back about the record being 20#, but if the IGFA says it's 8# then that's the record.  Starting about mid Sept we get them here by the thousands, seldom do they go 5# but you think you do have a tenpounder.   When they are thick you won't catch much else.  Like most of our species here during the bait runs they come in in waves, ladyfish leave and jacks or bluefish come in, after that the mackerel get into the mix but usually a bit farther out.  Their mouth is like a rock, they destroy hard lures and soft plastics, when they are around I switch to a spoon with a siwash hook or a bucktail, which won't last long but they are cheap.  They are related to tarpon, but make hard strikes where a tarpon inhales the lure.  I've caught hundreds off both species.

[Catch and Grease]

I had read a few years back about the record being 20#, but if the IGFA says it's 8# then that's the record. Starting about mid Sept we get them here by the thousands, seldom do they go 5# but you think you do have a tenpounder. When they are thick you won't catch much else. Like most of our species here during the bait runs they come in in waves, ladyfish leave and jacks or bluefish come in, after that the mackerel get into the mix but usually a bit farther out. Their mouth is like a rock, they destroy hard lures and soft plastics, when they are around I switch to a spoon with a siwash hook or a bucktail, which won't last long but they are cheap. They are related to tarpon, but make hard strikes where a tarpon inhales the lure. I've caught hundreds off both species.

I go fishing near a lighthouse in Tallahassee FL a few times a year and its seems like I always catch like 10 of those! They don't get very big compared to salt water fish but being a freshwater fishermen I enjoy hooking up with them.