Tell your story of fish jumping in boat! - Page 2 - The Hull Truth

nscrow · 10-18-2009, 06:59 PM

I have often seen black tip sharks jumping clean out of the water in the gulf and every time I can't help but wonder what it would happen if one landed in the boat. I would really love to hear the story If anyone has ever seen it happen.
David

cooterscrazy · 10-18-2009, 09:10 PM

Fishin right off the beach with 2 friends and the boat next to us is killin them. Well as the boat goes to reposition on the next drift this week fish jumps clear into the boat bouncing off the tackel box.
Ok it was my friends boat and he threw it and was laughin like a jackel and told me he didnt want me goin home with a cooler empty.

scottsmith · 10-19-2009, 02:09 AM

back in my single days in the USCG, each fall we would crew on retiree neighbor's sail boat running it from Johns pass down to Marathon where he wintered. We sailed overnight at 6 knots with 2 guys on watch while the other 4 slept. A quiet sail down to the keys all hell was about to break loose!
While I was on watch in the middle of the night, the owner a crusty guy in his 70's came hauling out of the cabin cussing away. He was more red in the face than the instrument panel's glow!!
When inquiring what the heck was wrong he asked us " which one of you sums bitches put THIS (as he held a huge and dead flying fish) on top of the toilet?
Apparently, when he got up to take a leak he found a suicidal flying fish who glided perfectly thru the open portal for the head landing perfectly on top of the seat!

We laughed for days on that one!

rarebreed · 10-19-2009, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by billfishnfool

Overnight fishing in the NE canyons a month ago we had 2 of these SNAKE MACKEREL jump in the boat while chasing prey.1 hit a friend right between the shoulder blades and the second whacked a guy in the elbow.Thank God they're only 2 feet long and weigh about a pound.Check out the teeth!

We caught one of those jigging at night on a 12 OZ butterfly jig. We were in the northern GOM about 1800 feet of water, and 400 feet down. Yes the teeth are wicked.

Mako 25 · 10-19-2009, 09:55 AM

Had a 50 lb bull dolphin come off of the gaff and jump into my old 25' Mako. It was hand to hand combat for about two minutes. By the time we beat the poor beast to death the entire back of the boat was covered in blood as well as ourselves. Fortunately, the boat and equipment survived unscathed.

beenie · 10-19-2009, 11:45 AM

In the mid 60's a friend and I were out frogging one night. We were in my 12' lumi with a 6 merc on the back. I was driving WOT in one of the larger bayous heading for a smaller canal. we ran upon a school of mullet that exploded when we headed into them. I don't remember how many landed in the boat out of the hundreds that were jumping, but I really remember the one that went about 2 lbs. that hit me in the throat! MAN, that hurt!
Not mine, but a friend told me of a sportfisher coming into Barrataria Pass and a green 80 lb. tarpon jumped into the cockpit. Everyone scrambled up to safety while the tarpon thrashed around and broke EVERYTHING! before it died.

Swami · 10-19-2009, 02:36 PM

Fishing out of Venezuela in 2005, back when Bubba Carter was running the Southpaw, having an absolute blast catching white marlin--the bite's on and we're in the double digits. Last day of the trip, first fish of the morning and my buddy Alberto wraps him up and gets ready to cut the leader. The white marlin jumps straight up in the air and lands like a lawn dart in the cockpit--his bill went in between the little black strips of the teak. He hung there for a second and then came crashing down, splintering about two inches off the end of his bill (the tip stayed in the deck). Our other mate jumped straight up like a cat on top of the transom fishbox to get out of the way.

We ended up opening the transom door so we could slide the marlin out. Once it was all over with, we just kinda stared at each other for a while, realizing we were pretty lucky not to have anyone hurt. I still have the piece of marlin bill.

That's my bony elbow to the left. The blood on the front of the fishbox was from the fish's broken bill--there's a surprising number of blood vessels and stuff in there.

GOB · 10-19-2009, 05:50 PM

I was not present, but my grandma (who used to fish a lot) told be about an incident similar to what Swami posted above, but one big and fatal difference: the marlin (blue) jumped into the boat and killed one of the mates (standing next to grandma on the fighting chair). Tragic, but true.

DFreedom · 10-20-2009, 08:19 AM

Years ago, cruising down a creek in the Beaufort, SC area, a large mullet jumped into our boat, hitting my 4 year old sister right in the face. After checking to make sure she was fine (she got a small scrape over her eye), we all had a good laugh about it. The next day as church was letting out, my Grandparents stopped to speak to the preacher and the preacher asked my little sister what happened to her face. My Granddad started to tell the preacher what happened when my sister piped up "That damn fish scared the hell out of me!" needless to say my Grandmother was mortified and we made a hasty exit from the church.

We all swear that experience made my sister the way she is now. There has to be some explanation.