Quote Originally Posted by Crusty View Post
Sea story time - now this ain't no ****e. We had an overnight in Freeport and while walking from one bar to another we passed a bait shop with a large hook in the window made out of 3/8" rebar. Had to have it and bought it. Several days later we were out in the blue water heading to another area to work so I attached that hook to the 5/8" cable on the big deck winch, got a roast from the reefer, put it on the hook and then it went into the water with a few hundred yards of cable paid out for overnight fishing while we slept. I spooled it in the next morning: the roast was gone and the hook was completely straight. Whatever it was I really didn't want to catch it.
depending on where you were at it could have been an amberjack or an Allison tuna barracuda sword fish shark you name the species there are some really large critters swimming the deep. Guys on offshore rigs would make huge treble hooks then suspend them on a cable attached to the hook of the rig crane just swing it back and forth through the waters to pass the time. Never seen any of them catch anything but heard stories of 900 lb Allison's and amberjacks being caught what way.
Biggest fish I ever caught in my life was a 60 lb channel cat on a trotline when fishing with my dad and a friend of his the fish was fouled up with a dozen hooks hanging in him from thrashing the trotline took all 3 of us in the 12 ft. Jon boat to wrestle the critter aboard