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re: Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic week
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:12 pm to Hermit Crab
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:12 pm to Hermit Crab
There are lots of tales (and pics) of catching bill-less marlin. I don't doubt that some die, but not all
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Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:14 pm to Motorboat
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likes the attention
Hence all the hashtags.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:15 pm to baldona
If the prop would have hit fish 3' back it would have been DQ'd on the spot. And no cameras is fishy is frick.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:17 pm to PapaPogey
That's exactly what I think happened.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:23 pm to Capt ST
I fool with the boats some but I've never been billfishing. How does a big marlin like that end up in the wheels? Do the captains accidentally back down on top of the fish or something? Seems like they'd be in mega "don't frick up" mode once it started getting close to the boat and if anything clutched ahead to keep it behind them.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:29 pm to 34venture
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someone else will have to chime in with specifics but JJ would smoke the wahoo every year and take home a nice paycheck so they changed the rules requiring you to enter more than 1 category someone feel free to correct me if I am wrong
That is true, but there was more I think.
Don't know the guy at all, but know some people who do. Plus there was a thread on THT a while back.
Supposedly he then entered 2 categories, then they cancelled the second category after he entered and sent him home.
I'm sure he felt singled out ( probably with good reason), and after that I'd sure as hell blast them for every little rules violation I saw...
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This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 1:35 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Seems like they'd be in mega "don't frick up" mode once it started getting close to the boat and if anything clutched ahead to keep it behind them.
But waves and a live fish make it unpredictable. Alot has to go right among angler, mate and captain to land a big fish.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:01 pm to yallallcrazy
Interesting. So this looks to be much deeper than this particular tournament with the mutilated bill.
This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:02 pm to Motorboat
I figured they'd be about 7/8 dead by the time they got wore down enough to actually get them to the boat but like I said I've never done it. I can see how it COULD happen, but that fish doesn't look like he got hit by the wheel to me. Seems like it'd be tough to cut the bill off that close and not hack the rest of his head up to hell and back.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:32 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
It wouldn't be a fishing tournament if there was no drama about the weigh-in........
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:39 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
and to take the lower jaw off at the same time
Posted on 6/12/17 at 2:43 pm to xenon16
So, what do you guys think happened?
Posted on 6/12/17 at 3:18 pm to Janky
I don't even offshore fish that often, but this is the best Scooby Doo mystery of the year so far.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 3:27 pm to FalseProphet
I think it's pretty clear the fish got whacked by the props. Not much else can take off the bill. I would think a DQ would be just about automatic with a fish like that. JJ has a legitimate gripe IMO, as do the other boats.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 3:34 pm to NorthEnd
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I think it's pretty clear the fish got whacked by the props. Not much else can take off the bill. I would think a DQ would be just about automatic with a fish like that. JJ has a legitimate gripe IMO, as do the other boats.
Is it? And nothing else, including the line, was caught up?
Just so weird with that plus no cameras.
Also, is the winning team's story that the props got it?
Posted on 6/12/17 at 3:42 pm to NorthEnd
Why should it be DQ'ed? I don't see in the rules where they are following IGFA verbatim. In fact, it says the opposite.
"The tournament committee reserves the right to reject any fish entry because of poor condition or one that does not meet the eligible requirements set by this tournament. The condition of the fish will be left to the scrutiny of the tournament committee. THEIR DECISION IS FINAL."
"The tournament committee reserves the right to reject any fish entry because of poor condition or one that does not meet the eligible requirements set by this tournament. The condition of the fish will be left to the scrutiny of the tournament committee. THEIR DECISION IS FINAL."
Posted on 6/12/17 at 3:48 pm to Coon
Looking at the picture on the Facebook page the fish does look to have a pretty good hack on its face on the left side behind the eye like it might have gotten chopped.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 4:10 pm to Janky
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So, what do you guys think happened?
IMO the tourney decided to stick it to Double J by counting this fish, and knocking them out of the money. Strictly based on the past beef between Double J and the tourney that I have read about. If it was another team on the border of prize money, the result may have been different, but we will never know.
The tourney knew who was in the money if that fish was counted and who wasn't.
Seems plain and simple to me.
This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 5:00 pm to bharris4qb1
FWIW, the crew successfully passed all polygraph Qs.
I don't know what Qs were asked, maybe JJ has posted them on THT by now like he was claiming he was going to.
I don't know what Qs were asked, maybe JJ has posted them on THT by now like he was claiming he was going to.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 5:12 pm to G2160
I get the feeling that JJ thinks this fish wasn't caught during the tournament.
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