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SteveMras · 02-20-2004, 12:41 AM

The thresher photo in the first post is of a common thresher. Those are the threshers you will see near shore and up on the surface. Bigeye threshers share the same huge eyes that a sword does and will be feeding deep during the day. They are also brownish in color, a portion of their eyes roll up on their heads so they look up and the lateral grooves in their body are deeper kinda form a helmet over their head.

Here's some photos of the pup threshers we play with in Long Beach Harbor:

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot...ame/l52640.jpg

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot...ame/l52639.jpg

That one was about 90 to 100 lbs and was caught on 20 lb on a TLD 15. They are fun fish, much like your tarpon. You better know how to chase a fish!

Here's a photo of a bigeye thresher caught by a guy I know:

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot...ame/l62477.jpg

You can clearly see the helmet I described. BTW, he says that his wife will break my wife's line class thresher records. He has a couple of hurdles to get over. First, he has to get his wife out fishing with him. Second, he has Topaz 28 Express with a single inboard diesel and a tower on it. I wish him luck on that as it will be difficult handling a thresher on 6 or 8 lb from that boat. Besides, after we bag the 4 lb, we'll revisit the 6 lb record. We had the leader blow up in the mates hands on one estimated at 130 lbs and it was on 6 lb. We're kind of embarassed of the 46 lb fish on 6 lb.

02-20-2004, 12:41 AM	#19 (permalink)
SteveMras Lines In Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 74	The thresher photo in the first post is of a common thresher. Those are the threshers you will see near shore and up on the surface. Bigeye threshers share the same huge eyes that a sword does and will be feeding deep during the day. They are also brownish in color, a portion of their eyes roll up on their heads so they look up and the lateral grooves in their body are deeper kinda form a helmet over their head. Here's some photos of the pup threshers we play with in Long Beach Harbor: http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot...ame/l52640.jpg http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot...ame/l52639.jpg That one was about 90 to 100 lbs and was caught on 20 lb on a TLD 15. They are fun fish, much like your tarpon. You better know how to chase a fish! Here's a photo of a bigeye thresher caught by a guy I know: http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot...ame/l62477.jpg You can clearly see the helmet I described. BTW, he says that his wife will break my wife's line class thresher records. He has a couple of hurdles to get over. First, he has to get his wife out fishing with him. Second, he has Topaz 28 Express with a single inboard diesel and a tower on it. I wish him luck on that as it will be difficult handling a thresher on 6 or 8 lb from that boat. Besides, after we bag the 4 lb, we'll revisit the 6 lb record. We had the leader blow up in the mates hands on one estimated at 130 lbs and it was on 6 lb. We're kind of embarassed of the 46 lb fish on 6 lb.