Grips?

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[quote author=Haywire link=topic=2810.msg25317#msg25317 date=1362450419]
Not a big fan of the "pier slam".
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+1
A) It's senseless because a quick blow to the top of the head accomplishes the same thing without blowing blood and slime all over the deck
B) It looks really bad to folks who might be on the fence between supporting fishing/hunting and supporting the PETA types.
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Most excellent observations! :headbang:
Not to mention that 'tenderizing' a mackerel with a 'pier slam' is equivilent to using a car on the highway to tenderize meat. ::)
It takes a 'road kill' mentality to want to do that, destroys the texture of the meat. :angry:

If you “mackslap” ‘em hard enough, you can cut the head off and just pour the meat-mush out.
Also the onlookers prolly don’t care much for getting splattered with blood. Not cool! :nyd:

One of these days a king is going to slip out of somebody's while the Mac slam is being preformed and its going to be ugly.

never had a bat before but did get one last year....(after seeing the attitude that left the 75lb wahoo I caught offshore).....I would just lay the king under the cart for 5min or so and that took the life out of them quick enough.....the spanish went right to the knife and then baggie....those suckers in a cooler flopping around made for a bloody mess to clean, at the end of the day.....as sharp as the teeth are..... I am surprised there haven't been more injured

To me everyones opinion reguarding the, "mackslam ,"method of dispatchng a King shows a respect that is commendable .

I don't really consider it so much respect as practicality. Last summer during a pier chew down the deck was slippery as hell with the slime and blood from 40 or 50 slams and someone, I think maybe Peaches, (apologies if it wasn't you) busted his a$$ hard from a foot that slipped on a big patch of mack gore. Could have been a lot worse than a bruised butt, elbow and pride. Was right by the rail and his head just missed smacking it on the way down. :slap:
A fish rapped on the skull with a priest is just as dead as one heaved high up in the air and then slammed down.
Having said all that, it is JMHO. :fishing:

[quote author=divedeep link=topic=2810.msg25341#msg25341 date=1362524971]
I don't really consider it so much respect as practicality. Last summer during a pier chew down the deck was slippery as hell with the slime and blood from 40 or 50 slams and someone, I think maybe Peaches, (apologies if it wasn't you) busted his a$$ hard from a foot that slipped on a big patch of mack gore. Could have been a lot worse than a bruised butt, elbow and pride. Was right by the rail and his head just missed smacking it on the way down. :slap:
A fish rapped on the skull with a priest is just as dead as one heaved high up in the air and then slammed down.
Having said all that, it is JMHO. :fishing:
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Yup probably me.. I know I busted it hard 4 or more times last year..

Heck I'd say about 75% of the time a king is dead after being stuck with a gaff ... (If ya know how to stick em)

[font=comic sans ms][size=12pt]Here is the worst King teeth injury from a while back on the pier. Can’t be too careful!
Hope ya don’t mind me sharing the pic Jeb.

[img width=665 height=500]http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv221/jebslamchevy/IMG00041-20090906-1444-1.jpg[/img]

Nope not at all. I have the video I shot of them reattaching the ligament some where.

Da#n, Fin. That's wrong. :spank: