A fishing rod question
Discussion
Rosscow said:
BSR, I get the horrible feeling that if you actually hook a monster like the picture above that you are going to s
t your pants! 
Be careful out there!
You are 100% correct. Everything about this trip terrifies me including hooking one of these things.t your pants! Be careful out there!
Oddly, though, that is the appeal. Only other fisherman will appreciate the adrenaline rush that hooking one of these things will give you, particularly given the difficulty of even getting to them.
Well I am back!
After a ten year wait, 18 months organisation and a small fortune I have caught exactly the same amount of Goliath tiger fish as all of you!!!!!
However I am not slightly bothered and it was definitely the trip of a lifetime and I loved every minute of it (apart from the beginning where I arrived in Kinshasa and all my gear didn't !)
I was lucky enough to get 6 takes for zero fish due to a combination of incompetence, inexperience and significantly the fact that these things are unbelievable. I'll do a more detailed write up when I get chance
After a ten year wait, 18 months organisation and a small fortune I have caught exactly the same amount of Goliath tiger fish as all of you!!!!!
However I am not slightly bothered and it was definitely the trip of a lifetime and I loved every minute of it (apart from the beginning where I arrived in Kinshasa and all my gear didn't !)
I was lucky enough to get 6 takes for zero fish due to a combination of incompetence, inexperience and significantly the fact that these things are unbelievable. I'll do a more detailed write up when I get chance
blindswelledrat said:
Well I am back!
After a ten year wait, 18 months organisation and a small fortune I have caught exactly the same amount of Goliath tiger fish as all of you!!!!!
However I am not slightly bothered and it was definitely the trip of a lifetime and I loved every minute of it (apart from the beginning where I arrived in Kinshasa and all my gear didn't !)
I was lucky enough to get 6 takes for zero fish due to a combination of incompetence, inexperience and significantly the fact that these things are unbelievable. I'll do a more detailed write up when I get chance
Unlucky, but no doubt a proper adventure.After a ten year wait, 18 months organisation and a small fortune I have caught exactly the same amount of Goliath tiger fish as all of you!!!!!
However I am not slightly bothered and it was definitely the trip of a lifetime and I loved every minute of it (apart from the beginning where I arrived in Kinshasa and all my gear didn't !)
I was lucky enough to get 6 takes for zero fish due to a combination of incompetence, inexperience and significantly the fact that these things are unbelievable. I'll do a more detailed write up when I get chance
Really glad to hear you got back in one piece, the whole escapade had Heart of Darkness all over it. I hope you took the sensible advice from the film and did not get/fall out of the boat!
Cheers all. As to the bad luck part I'm still unsure. Before I went I thought there was every chance I wouldn't even encounter one so you could argue I was lucky. I definitely don't feel like it was a failed trip- as otoliths says, the adventure and the taking part was plenty and with the lost rod debacle I only did 4 full days fishing. As for not falling in, the heat and humidity were high and the only way to cool down and get clean was to jump in and swim at the end of each day. It was a pretty nervy experience particularly after dark
Oh and as to going back- probably next year as I am thinking currently. It has become my nemesis and I'm currently defeated.
Plus I've hooked some pretty incredible fish in my time but I have never experienced speed and raw violence like these things. The adrenaline rush was intense. There was a point at the end of the first day where I had just had the 4th run of the day and played a fish of about 30lbs for 15 minutes and right at the boat it dived under and cut off on the propeller. 4 fish and 4 failures all for different reasons and I sat there for about 10 minutes too depressed to speak or fish genuinely beginning to think they were uncatchable
Plus I've hooked some pretty incredible fish in my time but I have never experienced speed and raw violence like these things. The adrenaline rush was intense. There was a point at the end of the first day where I had just had the 4th run of the day and played a fish of about 30lbs for 15 minutes and right at the boat it dived under and cut off on the propeller. 4 fish and 4 failures all for different reasons and I sat there for about 10 minutes too depressed to speak or fish genuinely beginning to think they were uncatchable
blindswelledrat said:
Oh and as to going back- probably next year as I am thinking currently. It has become my nemesis and I'm currently defeated.
Plus I've hooked some pretty incredible fish in my time but I have never experienced speed and raw violence like these things. The adrenaline rush was intense. There was a point at the end of the first day where I had just had the 4th run of the day and played a fish of about 30lbs for 15 minutes and right at the boat it dived under and cut off on the propeller. 4 fish and 4 failures all for different reasons and I sat there for about 10 minutes too depressed to speak or fish genuinely beginning to think they were uncatchable
That's not blanking, that's just the odds playing themselves out. A different day and you'd have landed that fish. It's all part of the craic.Plus I've hooked some pretty incredible fish in my time but I have never experienced speed and raw violence like these things. The adrenaline rush was intense. There was a point at the end of the first day where I had just had the 4th run of the day and played a fish of about 30lbs for 15 minutes and right at the boat it dived under and cut off on the propeller. 4 fish and 4 failures all for different reasons and I sat there for about 10 minutes too depressed to speak or fish genuinely beginning to think they were uncatchable
Someday, I'll have to tell you the story about me and my mate Bern, shark fishing in the desert.
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