What was the funniest thing you have seen on a party boat?

[Team Off The Hook]

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.

[Capt. Debbie]

yea- salad and beer!

Originally Posted by ChaosStarter

My friend eating a salad on a boat when he decided the day before to go on a diet. Can't say I've ever seen anyone eating a salad on a boat ever.

[kyle7683]

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.

[Capt. Lou]

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!

[Kenny V]

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. 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.

[JOHN D]

il never forget this one,

i was about 7 years old on a bluefishing party boat and some piss drunken idiot started eating bunker chunks saying he forgot his lunch.

[Steve-O]

It was a last minute tuna trip last year, and a trip to remember. NOAA was as always wrong, they said 2-3 foot seas 5-10 wind. But it turn out to be 6-8 foot and 20 to 25. My good friend john end up praying to the porcelain god for a good 4 hrs. And during that time, all he remembered is getting a golden shower from His friend Ed. It was not intentional but the waves were rockin and john could not move so he did the best he could. All I said to john is " good thing you didn't look up."

[Ol Pedro]

Back in 1973/74 I was fishing the Afternoon trip on the Seaforth . We set up inside NW La Jolla about 1/4 mile outside of the kelp . We had a pick of Calico Bass , Bonito , and big Greenback Mackerel going when some Yellowtail showed up in the slick . They would follow but not bite anything that we threw at them . I saw one pounce on a hooked Mackerel but it was too big to swallow . I quickly stripped a fresh Mack and flylined the strip out . I let it soak a while as the current was running straight back . While walking the strip back I got bit . I gave it a count of 3 and locked her up . Fish on ! A nerdy young deckhand we called Lightweight grabbed one of the strips that I cut , hooked it on his new custom Sabre set up , stood on middle pipe of the stern starboard corner rail and let the strip fly . I guess that he figured that he could see the fish better that way . Just as Capt. Larry started yelling at him to get down the kid got bit . He swung the rod , fell backwards , and let go of the rod in mid air as he did an ass plant on the deck . The rod hit the top of the rail and took off like the roadrunner in cartoons being towed by the Yellowtail towards the kelp . The deckhand on the tanks laughed so hard that he stepped in the starboard bait tank , soaked half of his body , and narded himself . With the reel locked up there was no chance of recovering it . Other than a bruised ass , family jewels ,and Ego's , the only thing that was terminal was the gaff in my Yellowtails head . It was one of the best times I had while fighting a fish .

[Capt. Debbie]

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.

[BlendiC]

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