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

[tombanjo]

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!"

[thbigtoad]

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.

[jcstriper1]

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.

[Chico]

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.

[flyersnfluke]

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.

[Dino]

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.

[Matt116]

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.

[RATS]

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.

[1captainron]

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!

[Housecop]

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