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I was working on a party boat cutting bait on the back cutting board when a gentlemen wanted to use the bathroom.When i told him that the bathrooms are not to be used a dock he could use the bathroom at the tackle shop or the porto john, he decliened and said he could hold it.As we were leaving the slip he ran over to me grabbed my 5 gal bucket with my bunker backs in it droped his pants and let it fly in the middle of the stern in front of about 30 people.Im looking at him as his butt is stuck in a 5 gal bucket and told him to pick it up and i will unlock the bathroom.I told him i would be back with some tp when i got back he said he didn't need tp he poured the liquid bleach that was in the bathroom to clean himself.I could not belive it.Top that one

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That's a classic you can't make that sh#t up!!!

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Guess that guy wanted to go bluefishing in the Mud Hole! :D

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SOO many stories but a recent one was a couple years back when Capt Ron had a good group on the Fisherman for fluking. To keep the croud away I put a giant BOBBER on and the regular people kept moving. Looking up at Ron all I say was teeth.

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Sometime in the early 80's on the Helen H out of Brooklyn. Night blues, worst trip ever. NOTHING being caught. The six hot shot drunks who had the port corner stumbled into the cabin to eat leaving their dead sticks in the water (of course). I figure ok, at least some piece and quiet but not ten minutes later five of those reels go screaming into the night, spooled in seconds. Bunch of giants must have passed through. Those guys came back out and saw their empty reels with these bewildered looks on their faces. I LMAO, said "YES, there is a God!"

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I could fill this thread. My short form answers would be toaster porgies, an actual Chinese fire drill, guy fighting the anchor winch for 10 mins, a Mr. Hanky that would not topple over for 6 hrs in 10-12 ft waves and several episodes of bluefin tuna on a kmart rental rod with 60lb mono that inevitably result in a spooled reel being ripped off the reel seat and tearing off all the guides on the way to join the tuna.

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This isn't really funny, more stupid IMO. I remember years back, must have been 18 or 19 years old. I was with a buddy of mine on a 3/4 day Bluefish trip on the Ol Salty out of AH. We were getting ready to leave the dock when these 5 clowns showed up last minute and grabbed 5 rental rods.

One guy immediately starts stripping all the mono off the rental rod and into the water. The guy must have stripped 100 yards of mono off the reel before the captain saw what was going on. The captain screamed what hell are you doing, that's new line. The guy promptly replied, "I'd like to use my own line!".

Till this day I've never heard a captain curse a fare out worse than than that guy got it. Needless to say, that line got spooled back on the rental rod.

Figures though, that jackass ended up winning the pool that day.

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About 12 years ago out on a crowded night blues trip out of Bellmar on the Eagle, had a couple of dummies with listening problems (you know the type). Mates were screaming busy and repeatedly told these inexperienced fools not to swing fish in the boat as they were reaking havoc and of course indangering other patrons. As I previously stated they had listening problems, but that all was remedied when one of the clowns pulled over a still hungry yellow eyed demon who turned his buddies earlobe into a meal.

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This was classic, My buddy and i was on a party boat in belmar fluke fishing. We were on the starboard side of the boat. My buddy got tangled with someone on the port side. He brings his line up and there is a fluke on the other guys line. He had no idea he was tangled or had a fish on. My buddy decided to take the fish off the guys line and fillet it(when it was legal to do so,this was years ago) so then he attaches the skeleton to the guys hook and drops in water. The guy brings his line in and the look on the guys face (priceless) funniest thing i have ever seen on any boat by far. everyone was crackin up.

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Fishing one of the half day boats out of Key Largo in March when the spring breakers are out in force. All day they were just letting their lines out, forgetting about them, and drinking beer. Mate ends up cutting them ALL off, and they never notice. After several hours they are all passed out except one guy, I pull in a remora and the mate slaps it onto one passed out dude's back and yells!! The dude jumps up, his girl is now screaming at the top of her lungs while this dude spins around in circles trying to see what's sucked onto his back. His buddy who knew what was going on has now pissed himself laughing as the rest of us are rolling on the deck, dying with laughter. Next trip out a flying fish smacks a girl on the side of the head, her studly boyfriend assumes the dude standing on the other side of her just cold cocked her, so he goes on the the attack!! We were all cracking up, while trying to break them up.

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I was recently on an AH party boat bass fishing. There was a guy that had been drinking out of a flask and by time we rounded the hook he was yelling at the captain "stop the f'n boat". This went on all day searching for life to throw jigs at. At one point he tripped over his cooler and knocked over a whole bunch of peoples stuff, and almost went over the rail.

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When we were kids my old man took my brother and I out bottom fishing- Ling, Whiting & Cod. Forgot the boat out of the Atlantic Highlands.

Anyway my fishing expert younger brother pulls something up. We had not see one like this- much sleaker looking than the other "pudge" fish (ling ,cod).

Someone says a pollock. About 7-8 pounds. My brother George squeezing it with two hands after unhooked said I would NEVER catch a nice fish like this. It wiggled. He squeezed it even harder to hold it.

It popped free of his hands upwards. It hit the rail and was back in the Atlantic. He's yelling to get the gaff. I laughing and my dad is so pissed off.

Some guy next to me I never met before says : "serves him right. Now you can catch it."

FUNNY MOMENT. There were not many funny moments with my dad fishing (or crabbing).

He would turn crazy man on the water if anything went less than pefect.

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Well not a party boat but funny.

When I was a resident in general surgery in manhattan I and a friend of mine that is jewish. He was born in manhattan raised there and did not even know how to drive. One day after being on call for 90 hrs he overhears me ament philadElphiA crew talking about going fishing for tuna out of cape may nj.
He begs me to comme so I reluctantly agree. We get there and while everyone is chunking and jigging the whole time he is in the bunk We see the fish but they won't bite so everyone is sort of pissed. He wakes up after 10 hour nap comes up and grabs a rod. Gets a rod with a lucanus jigg. I teach him how it works to release the spool and count the feet. So he is watching us vertical jigging and does the same. First jigg on the drop he hooks up and turns to us scared and is yelling" the **** is wrong with my rod. You goyems gave me a bad one"

So he had no idea wha had happened untill he was almost spoled. That was the only fish of the day b

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My first time on a party boat (the miss moore out of shoals dock on staten island), I carry the pre-rigged rods onboard and lean them against the cabin (we were about half way down the starboard side). I come back from checking out the inside of the cabin and I'm wondering why my dad is hovering over this woman. I look at my brother who starts cursing me under his breath (didn't take much)....I finally realize that the poles slid down, and one of the rods hooked this lady in her wig. My dad was doing his best to get the hook out of her wig without laughing (or cursing at me), all the while the lady is holding on to her wig like a hurricane was going to blow it away.

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funniest thing I ever saw...voyager tilefish trip 2008 -- One intrepid angler decides instead of lead sinkers he is going to fish a breakaway-weight system employing a 10lb bag of dirt in a sack. he brought a couple of these on board. I was fishing just down the rail from the gentleman as we make the first drop in 900' and im watching this whole thing unfold with absolute joy/dismay/curiosity just knowing this CANNOT work but i've never been a hater on the party boat and just went about my own business. sure enough as soon as his bag-o-soil hits bottom it becomes apparent there is too much stretch in the guys system to break the (not light enough) mono he had connecting the dirt sack to his high low rig. As the rod doubles over (it was a Trevala!!!) my man starts hauling back on this thing like he is Mike Iaconelli doing a hollywood hookset on a largemouth bass. over and over he is swinging and I can hardly keep from falling overboard im trying so hard not to laugh. faced with line peeling off the reel the only option is to lock down on the drag and start reeling the bag of dirt 900' back to the boat hoping it would break in the current which it did not do until the mates gaffed it for him a half hour later. I am pretty sure the guy was a good sport about it afterwards and caught a tile when the boat loaned him an 32oz lead.

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Night bluefish trip, 2 guys next to me getting completely drunk on whiskey can barely sit up straight. They are basically deadsticking when when rod has a run. Guy, sitting down because he can not stand, swings his catch. He is all excited I gotta shark I gotta shark and removes the hook and immediately jams the "shark" down his pants right into his junk. Well the "shark' was a Dogfish and well good thing he was heavily numb from booze. 10 minutes later he was out cold.

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Had a customer fishing in the bow a couple years ago who would swing for the stars trying to set the hook on a ling......told him he was going to rip the fishes head off doing that and to take it easy...this went on all morning.

Waited till he went to the head and left his rod in the rod holder, still in the water. Had Eddie the deckhand at the time bring up a ling head which we quickly attached and dropped back down......The "I told you so" laughter and look on his face when he brought up the head was priceless and truly memorable!:)

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Bump

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THATS SWEET

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A guy is throwing a cast net for snappers in AH harbor before getting on a fluke boat. Gives it a good toss and it gets caught on his dentures removing the entire set and putting them in the water. Just about 3 weeks ago an editor from the Fisherman magazine gets on a party boat in AH and says; " Is it all right if I get in the pool? I'm pretty good." Gets two 18 inchers and goes home thinking he's great.

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yea- salad and beer!

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Probably a chinese fellow on a ns party boat out of PP for an all day bottom trip talking about these new killer rods he makes and shelled out $400 a piece for them and brought 2 on board and wants everyone to try them. First drop on a wreck, guy thinks he gets hooked up, swings for the stars and SNAP, hooked the wreck instead...ok one pole down...couple hours go by while using his second rod, swings for the stars again...SNAP.He ended up winning the pool on a rental rod.

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Back in the late sixties I used to PB fish for tuna every fall. Those days the MH, 17 etc supported a solid tuna run. Many times you could hook up to a schoolie to a Gt on the same trip. Tuna were mixed size so you fish a 6/0 or bigger outfit .
One Oct. Day on the Highlander I struck up a conversation with a retired naval admiral. He deported a 12/0 Penn & 130# class rod. Thought how is he ever gonna fish stand up with this chair outfit.
Well on the way out he decided to re spool his mono by letting it out behind the boat.
To my surprise & everyone elses I think , the tension on the dragged Mono crushed that 12/0 spool like is was run over by an 18 wheeler !
A real eye opener for us all that day, funny but taught me a lesson , backed di
Spliced all my reels with Dacron after this deal!

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Didn’t read this thread but I have a few yuc yucs . Every year you see someone do something goofy. .For the life of me I still don’t get why people would bring a disposable cooler on a party boat . (Or even buy one for that matter). I have seen folks try to put fish in them only to explode apart on the first fish.

Better yet I saw some guy try to sit on one in the cabin on the ride back in. :eek: Not to mention how many times I saw one get steeped on and rip apart as the boat rocks.......lol.. Gota love it...Now Every time I see one of those coolers I cant help not to laugh cuz I can see it coming already.



Ohh Not sure if this was mentioned but then you have these guys come aboard with 20 foot surf rods. When you see this u already know there will be trouble.


Funny but not funny. On a beautiful calm day ..no more than 15 seconds out of the inlet you have folks ralphing over the rail.

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Great thread ..! :D Some fantastic stories.. always some kinda entertainment out there.. One of my favs happened back in the early 80's.. My late fishing bud Tony and I where had come down for a night Bluefish trip on the Queen Mary (i think), out of PP.. Kinda crowded, but the bite was good, and there was lots of life in the slick.. including big schools of squid coming into the lights.. Tony gets it in his head he wants to catch some squid to fry, so he pulls an ancient squid jig out of his box (one of those plastic bodies with a bunch of pin-hooks sticking out), a proceeds to run around the boat trying to catch up with the schools darting in and out, yelling "Calamari, Calamari!" . Now Tony was a big, jollly, loveable guy.. big white beard like Santa, and always laughing and joking with the other fares.. hard not to like the guy.. But after several minutes of running around and squeezing onto the rail to get shots at these squid, occasionally tangling the chunk drifters, and generally causing a ruckus, I could see some guys where getting a bit miffed..but no one said anything to him.. but everyone is watching him closely.. Finally, he hooks a squid... As he is swinging it over the rail, its about a foot over his head, and lets fly a big jet of ink... that hits him in the chin, fills his white beard, and covers the front of his shirt.. :eek: Much to the delight of the crowd, who threw up a deafening cheer and applauded him vigorously! He gave a little bow, and sheepishly cut off his jig and went back to Bluefishing for the night . :D

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On one of the boats out of Belmar not too long ago for a sea bass/fluke trip while a lovely ground swell was pounding us as random gusts to 25+ would howl in. One of the fares that spent a better part of the day in the cabin (mal de mer but he just didn't want to throw up) finally makes his way out by me and a friend while we were enjoying getting tossed around sitting at the bow.

The look on his face warns me, and I move just as he heaves into an oncoming gust, that promptly catches his stream and splashes it right back on him which makes him heave again with the same results.

We couldn't contain ourselves...felt bad but laughed pretty hard at the poor guys expense....especially after his buddy came over with a bucket of water and dumped it on him to clean him off/continue the laughter.

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Any others ?
.........dam is spring ever going to get here?

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yeah ... pretty F*%&$ funny if you ask me

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I call those styrofoam jobs "self destructing coolers". They never make it through the day.

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I remember that trip to the T that was the best day of working deck i have ever had only thing is on the way in nobody felt kind enough to let the capt. And crew know about the show she was putting on in the bow! They did however feel obligated to inform us after the fact and make us say wtf y didnt u tell us! Lol that was a great day tho.and that day is when then phrase stripers and strippers was coined now if only there was a boat that actually did those kinda trips i cud see them railed everyday.

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Few years ago night bluefish trip out of Belmar, get to the boat and 1 dude had way to much to drink.... as were heading out guy sticks his finger in his A*s and starts walking the boat asking ppl to smell his finger.... 2 hours later and still drinking guy does some chumming of his own and then catches the pool fish.

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I used to work the night blues/striper trips on the Night Hawk out of belmar. A russian guy who was a total sleezeball came on the boat wearing flipflops. He kicked a blue fish and it bit off the tip of his big toe. It was disqusting and hilarious.

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The funniest thing I ever saw on a PB has to probably be when I was out bluefishing from PP and this drunk young fireman was selling his fresh made bucktails... They were actual buck tails from when he was hunting deer with a hook tied to them.

The funniest thing that I ever did on a party boat was when I was fluke fishing out of Perth Amboy and the water was covered with jellyfish, so everything that comes out of the water is covered in slime. My hands are covered in jellyfish goo and I get a bite, I set the hook and the rod slips out of my hands and into the water. It was a St. Croix light rod with a Daiwa Luna reel and it was floating on the top of the water, needless to say I was pissed I just did that. Luckily the captain was fishing right next to me and calmly lets out some extra line, wraps the excess line around my rod and somehow pulls it up. I thank him up and down, then realize the fish is still on my line, the whole boat watches to see what kind of monster could rip the rod right out of my hands.... Then the worlds smallest sea robin comes over the rail. The entire boat was rolling around on the deck laughing at me.

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Now that is funny!

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i was working the deck on a head boat with a charter of 40 guys. we were on a drift fluke fishing when a guy at midship dropped a rental rod overboard. he reluctantly went up to the wheel house and paid the captain the $85 for the lost combo. I gave him another rental pole and he was back fishing for the next drift. Wouldn't you know it that same guy snagged his line off the bottom on the next drift and got the rod back! Captain came down and gave him his money back, it still amazes me when we laugh about that trip. 40 lines in the water and this guy in the middle catches the rod... customers never cease to amaze me