Dangit...

[anas473]

I think I may have thrown back a world record smooth puffer at deerfield recently. The one I caught was around 10lb +/- 2lbs. Would have been a cool story, Darn....

[permitchaser]

on the keys are way bigger than that and they love blue crabs ,dont give up.

[STRIZ]

When you start handlining them cuz the rod looks like it will pop then you start seeing the serious numbers.

Unfortunatly that is an integral part of my famous magic 3 that I showed my talent about every 3rd trip or so give or take

Bonnethead
Bis a$$ puffers (did I mention big as in huge?!)
Cat's

[gruntking]

you guys guys usually get the porcupine puffers in the keys he is talking about a different type of puffer also known as the rabbit fish

[permitchaser]

yup ,they are edible too ,just saw a dude on YTube cleaning an 8 pounder ,btw never seen one. nice flesh

[kblue]

this fish is poisonous enough to kill you within an hour if we eat the fish incorrectly cleaned...

[sweetmerlin]

Ah, I've seen plenty of these smooth puffers in west africa.... Some locals ate them..

[crashmister]

Fugu= Cullinary Russian Roulette!

[anas473]

Fish mentioned pertained to the common rabbitfish.

[permitchaser]

this fish is poisonous enough to kill you within an hour if we eat the fish incorrectly cleaned...

Jon THANK YOU


generally the majority of the poison is in the liver and ovaries but there is some in the intestines and sometimes the skin. it really depends on the type of puffer fish. this is the reason why people in japan have to be licensed to serve puffer fish. i'll mitigate the risk and stick to eating it when im in japan. there's enough seafood to enjoy that wont kill you. also to the person that asked you dont gut them because if you knick the guts at all while trying to gut them it poisons the meat.

THEY DONT HAVE TO WORRY BOUT ME Sorry boyz ITS A FUKUSHIMA FISH DO NOT EAT IT I WODER IF DUDE ON YOUTUBE STILL ALIVE.

[Old School]

Ah, I've seen plenty of these smooth puffers in west africa.... Some locals ate them..

Did you do a lot of fishing there ?

[sweetmerlin]

Ah, I've seen plenty of these smooth puffers in west africa.... Some locals ate them..

Did you do a lot of fishing there ?

Hi Old School,

I grew up in west africa and spent my teenage there. I did a lot of fishing in one particular jetty that used to serve as a waterway bridge that connected the land to a nearby island. That island served as a central receiving/shipping point for african slaves before they were sold to the US/Europe way back in the days when I or my parents weren't even born lol. That jetty and the island had a lot of history. It got torn up during a local war but served and I believe still serves as a jetty that's excellent for fishing any kind of fish.. The locals used to fish bonita, dogtooth tuna, grouper, red snapper, sea trouts, trumpet fish, giant ribbonfish etc.. depending on time of day, tide, and dry/rain season. I fished this jetty at least twice a week since I was 9 till i turned 18. Locals here freelined small sardines with a small split sinker to catch grouper, trumpet, large blue runners, bonita etc.. Since cast nets are not readily available and locals didn't know anything about sabikis, they used to tie a snagging rig (five to six sets of two single hooks tied opposite to each other) to snag sardines that used to school up near the structure almost every other day.. which attracted a lot of action of course and was quite spectacular to just watch goliath groupers, tunas, sea trouts stir up the school. Large hooks were used to snag mullets (not for bait but for consumption). They formed a small school of 20 or so and passed along the structure several times a day... The local regulars were so good at snagging fish they used to catch 30" mullets that swam alone from some distance...(they do get pretty big around the coast of west africa) People also tied one or two chicken feathers onto a hook and used it 5-6 feet below a bobble float that was most of the times made out of ping pong, tennis balls, carved foam or the actual bobble float where you can put water to control weight/buoyancy. All these without any rods/reels just spools of line wrapped around a piece of cardboard. One good thing about this is that we never had any problem with individuals taking up miles of the jetty to themselves with 10-20 rods. LOL Also mind you, this jetty was made out of slabs of giant carved rocks submerged in the water and didn't have any kind of railings etc..so it's not easy to pull anything rude like that. People sometime just wrapped around their lines around small rocks to serve as a fish-on alarm and fish 2-3 lines but they were very considerate to each other and never went overboard... One last thing I remember about this jetty is that because it doesn't have any railings... people used to get thrown out near the entrance if large waves crashed onto the jetty... so we used to stay put at the entrance until the giant waves crashed and when things calmed down as the waves were retreating for a short window of about 3 min or so, we ran like hell to reach the safety zone which was around the other half of the jetty...we had to watch out for the algal growth on the surface of the jetty that were really slimy while running and not get caught in any of the giant waves forming/coming towards the jetty else you'd be overthrown. LOL It was sort of a real life "temple run" game that you find on ios/android phone LOL. Once I did lose several decent sized snappers and a giant bonito I caught on my way back home because of a rogue giant wave and nearly got thrown overboard myself. Good memories! LOL

[kblue]

I enjoyed reading your West Africa Jetty Fishing... you described it quite well...thanks Bro

[sweetmerlin]

감사 감사

sorry for derailing the thread >_>

[anas473]

By all means, carry on.

[Old School]

Sounds like the Jettiy you fished might have been in Accra ? My wife's middle daughter was involved in some medical research during her studies in Medical School and my wife visited her in Ghana West Africa some years ago before she graduated. They traveled to Accra to tour a infamous castle there that was used in the slave trade.

[sweetmerlin]

Here's the jetty I was talking about

https://www.google.com/maps/@14.669726, ... 592!8i1944

It's located in Dakar:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/14%C2 ... !1s0x0:0x0

[Old School]

Very impressive jetty at 640 yd's long.