Guy Catches Huge Amberjack w/o a Pole

[Flounderpounder420]

Quite a fight w/o a rod and reel and then to just throw it back. I'm guessing because it might be illegal.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=842_1386536016

[plugger]

Yeah , don't need no freaking rod and reel ! Who -ra !

[dbarham]

whoa!

[Curmudgeon]

Pretty amazing.

[buoy37]

AWESOME!

[Root Canal]

One heck of a fight!!

[Yankee]

Nice fish.......not sure what to think of the t-shirt.....

[walkinwader]

That's before I gained weight.......oh yeah and lost all my hair. That's pretty cool.

[Milkjug]

Handlining can be fun. Pretty good way to bottom fish but the loops of line can make a mess.

I wonder where he was catching AJs so close to shore?

[FP3]

sweet !

[Explorer21]

That is nuts, what would have happened if that sucker pulled him in! Cool to see him release it. When we were in Cabo, we saw guys fishing with just a spool all the time. Really cool.

[Ibtsoom]

I've caught bunches of snapper on a hand line. Worked on a commercial boat when I was a teenager. If I hung anything huge id just tie it off to the pin rail and either let it wear itself out or escape. Caught a ling that was well over 70 lbs that way one day.

[Explorer21]

That would have been an awesome site to see

I've caught bunches of snapper on a hand line. Worked on a commercial boat when I was a teenager. If I hung anything huge id just tie it off to the pin rail and either let it wear itself out or escape. Caught a ling that was well over 70 lbs that way one day.

[Ibtsoom]

That would have been an awesome site to see

I felt like I cheated, as soon as I realized it was more than I could handle I tied him off and let him wear himself out fighting the boat. After that I just pulled him in and gaffed him. I was plenty proud of him when I got ahold of him though. I was probably all of 16 at the time.

[Explorer21]

Heck no, I would have done the same thing! Good eating