A Surreal experience

[Kajundave]

[SIZE=3]Started off this morning with a stiff wind, light rain and a moderate heavy chop. Headed towards SW and found the cause of the wind, so we skirted the storm, the further south we went the better the water looked and the lake was calming down, by the time we reached LSU it was flat calm, we started picking up some trout on top water right off the bat, as daylight started breaking through the clouds, the TP stopped. I picked up a grub and started catching mixed sand / specks it was on until the ultimate strike, never seen them coming… out of nowhere a biga$$ swirl and it was on… set hook to find a Porpoise on the other end of my line, never in my wildest dreams would I have imagine hooking a Porpoise… I’m here to tell you it was pissed off, that thing started jumping and cutting flips and twisting …..it looked like we were at Sea World , then he bolted, peeling off a 150yds of braid in a matter of a few seconds, by this time he had 3 buddies joined in and they were all cutting up, you could see the trail of braid behind him, it was a surreal experience to stay the least. All in all it wasn’t a bad day we were back at the landing by 11:00 with 22 specks, threw back at least 40 sandies.[/SIZE]

[rustyb]

Did you keep em? LOL
Thats crazy.

[1fastmerc]

Now that's funny.


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[FF_T_Warren]

That's awesome. Your the first I've ever heard of catching a porpoise

[fishinpox]

my buddys wife hooked flipper one time at breton island.... it took all the line in the blink of an eye !

[simplepeddler]

Saw I guy hook one once at Breton off the Islander houseboat at night under the lights.
Dumb, drunk fool tried the thumb the reel.......took off the top layer of skin.......

[Swlatiger]

Cool story, I've learned to greatly dislike dolphins. They're cute and all but are super smart and have adapted to learn that we throw undersized and tired fish back and will follow fishing boats looking for easy treats in south Texas. I'm not trying to be the internet police but we have Atlantic Bottle nosed Dolphin here on the gulf coast, Porpoises are generally in colder waters...

[Kajundave]

[SIZE=3]I have been fishing for 40 plus years, I always thought they were too intelligent to be fooled by plastic bait, or live for that matter…. My buddy is a true Cajun, the first thing out of his mouth was I wonder what it is going to taste like J[/SIZE]

[SpeckWrangler]

Wow.

[1fastmerc]

Originally Posted by Kajundave

[SIZE=3]I have been fishing for 40 plus years, I always thought they were too intelligent to be fooled by plastic bait, or live for that matter…. My buddy is a true Cajun, the first thing out of his mouth was I wonder what it is going to taste like J[/SIZE]

Lol


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[Gerald]

While fishing at the Cameron jetties 10+ years ago.....

I cut a crab in half, put it on a jig head and cast it out toward the front of the boat. I took the rod and wedged it in beside my ice chest.

I turned around and was rigging up another pole. When I looked back at the rod, it was bent over at a 90 deg angle. How it did not just fly out of the boat, IDK. I grabbed the rod just as there was a very big "swirl" in the water. Line started stripping off the reel and was now head off toward the back of the boat. There was a brief sighting of something very big which was witnessed by people in another boat.

Then in another second later [and 30+ yards away] the Dolphin came out of the water. The 15 lb test line then broke because I was tighting down the drag to keep from loosing all the line.

It was some very exciting 4 or 5 seconds.

[StuBone278]

Crazy!! I've had a 7'+ gator take my cut-bait while catfishing just off the intracoastal before. It picked it up and ran about 50 yards before breaking off. I thought I had a massive cat on the line, but the gator surfaced shortly after the line broke. By now another gator was investigating the boat, so I figured it was time to move.