Posted on 03/14/2018 4:57:30 AM PDT by simpson96
When 68-year-old Sue Elcock ventured out on a deep-sea fishing trip to keep her son company, she probably wasn’t expecting to reel in a 130-pound “monster fish” bigger than herself.
During an early morning excursion while visiting her son Simon and his wife Michelle at their Perth, Australia home, Elcock told The Sun she felt a tug on her line and knew she caught a “fair-sized fish.” The petite Englishwoman said she was shocked at its sheer size as it emerged from the ocean off the coast of Lancelin.
After 40 minutes of reeling, her son and their fellow passengers hauled in a giant bass grouper measuring 5 feet, 4 inches long — two inches bigger than Elcock herself, The Sun noted.
“I just couldn’t believe the size of it when it reared its head out the water. It was the size of a sofa,” Elcock said.
“Simon is an experienced sea angler and I have been out with him before when I have been visiting he and Michelle,” she divulged of the catch, which she made with her 49-year-old son’s electric reel. “The biggest fish I’ve caught before was a snapper about a foot long and when this one took the bait on the bottom the tug on the line didn’t seem much.”
“Someone said you would need an awful lot of chips to go with a fish like that,” Elcock joked of her find. “But I’ve helped cut him up and get all that fish into the freezer. Simon and Michelle will be enjoying fish barbies for months when I’m long back in the U.K.”
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I can’t wait for fishing season this year...
What’s so funny about this is that when I was a kid in the 1960’s I was a real science fiction buff. I was so excited that the average lifespan of an american would mean I would live into the “21st century” as if on 1/1/2000 some switch would be pulled and we’d be “in the future”.
But I was also depressed because I’d be so old I’d not be able to appreciate it. :-D
Not a jewfish, for sure. It is a Polyprion americanus, known to us as the “Wreckfish”. Worldwide distribution, generally in the deep of the continental shelves.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/43972/0
I used to participate in the Wreckfish fishery on the Blake Plateau off of our Southeast coast.
Not a jewfish, for sure. It is a Polyprion americanus, known to us as the “Wreckfish”. Worldwide distribution, generally in the deep of the continental shelves.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/43972/0
I used to participate in the Wreckfish fishery on the Blake Plateau off of our Southeast coast.
Eyeball soup.
Paddle-fish reminded me of a story from the earlier days of DNA testing when a ring of US Russian Mafia were busted for labelling and selling Montana Paddle-fish eggs as Beluga.
So you can eat that fish?
We are living in the future
I’ll tell you how I know
I read it in the papers
15 years ago
We’re all driving rocket ships
And talking with out minds
Wearing turquoise jewelery
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines
- John Prine, Living in the Future
That album came out in 1980, at the end of the Carter Administration, so the “standing in soup lines” imagery is understandable.
As a Republican, I’d call it “Shorty”.
In the future, we call soup lines “SNAP”.
:)
Agree. At 66, with my joints falling apart, I keep thinking ‘I’m only 66!’. I guess our generation has been conditioned to think we aren’t allowed to get old. When I was young, 66 WAS old. I sure don’t feel old, except when I wake up in the morning and it takes me several minutes of walking before the pain goes away.
Thats Webb Hubbles Daddy
ROTFLMAO.
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Did you know Al Pinder and his brothers? They were into spear fishing in Miami and SE Florida. Largest one I saw that that got was around 1,000+#. I had a photo of it hanging from a car wrecker boom. Also same photo, was in the Miami Herald,195x.
I turned 64 in October. In November, the electrician in my heart retired, and I had to have a pacemaker installed to take over. The only symptoms were that my heart suddenly slowed down to 45 bpm when the electrician retired.
I still don't feel old, keep up with my 44 year old nephew in many things.
Yes. My internist keep ordering all these tests and I keep thinking ‘but those are for old people’. I guess I really should check my blood pressure and BPM every day.
No, I did not know them. I started fishing in the 1970s in Central Florida. Fished most all of the fisheries in the Southeast and Gulf until the 1990s when I saw the writing on the wall.
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