[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Barracuda (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/9/2015 1:23:05 AM EDT
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| Snorkeling the reefs off Grand Cayman about 10 years ago, I was intently looking for the colorful reef fish below me when I caught a glimmer of silver out of the corner of my mask. Looked over and a barracuda maybe 3.5' long was keeping pace with me at arms reach. Scared the shit out of me when I first noticed it, but it took off like a frickin' AIM-9 sidewinder when I reached my hand out. |
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Always thought Nancy Wilson came up with the guitar riff and played lead on Barracuda ( and all Hearts songs for that matter ). The way that video is filmed it looks like the guy is playing lead though. All these years....say it ain't so!
Cool song from the Wilson sister's none the less. |
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Always thought Nancy Wilson came up with the guitar riff and played lead on Barracuda ( and all Hearts songs for that matter ). The way that video is filmed it looks like the guy is playing lead though. All these years....say it ain't so! Cool song from the Wilson sister's none the less. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ulDc8R4uhA&list=RD7ulDc8R4uhA#t=6  they snagged that riff from Nazareth
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Uh, no... Uh..yeah..according to Nancy, herself "we heard that riff...and knew we had to use it somehow" misremembered... 
Nancy: “Barracuda” is another Ann Wilson reactionary moment. We were schmoozing with schmoozer’s backstage after the show and this one really oily guy said, “Hey, baby…” and went on to make an innuendo about us being lesbian lovers. He was like, “It’s an angle.” She was so shocked by the lack of taste and manners of this guy, and knowing who we are, to begin with, we are not just sleazy rock broads…so she went and wrote her scathing words down. Roger came up with that really cool riff that was sort of a rip off of a Nazareth song. The song is “This Flight Tonight,” which was a Joni Mitchell song. Nazareth put that chunka-chunka-chunk-chunk on it. Roger kind of borrowed it, much to their chagrin. It came together really well as a scathing retort. |
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A couple of years ago while free diving I shot one that had been slowly following me and my dive partner for over half an hour. He was just slowly cruising around us the whole time. He was somewhere around 5 1/2 feet. I failed to make a clean kill and in the ensuing chaos he wrapped the line from my spear gun around my leg and body and nearly drowned me. We finally killed him after multiple spear gun shots and head shots from our three prongs. Tough fish to kill. I was one of the biggest mistakes I've made while diving. That being said, barracuda steaks are delicious. |
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Quoted: A couple of years ago while free diving I shot one that had been slowly following me and my dive partner for over half an hour. He was just slowly cruising around us the whole time. He was somewhere around 5 1/2 feet. I failed to make a clean kill and in the ensuing chaos he wrapped the line from my spear gun around my leg and body and nearly drowned me. We finally killed him after multiple spear gun shots and head shots from our three prongs. Tough fish to kill. I was one of the biggest mistakes I've made while diving. That being said, barracuda steaks are delicious. He says they carry some bacteria or something that can mess you up. It reverses your senses,i.e., hot=cold, etc. WTH, my googlefoo is working this AM Ciguatera poisoning or ciguatera is caused by eating contaminated tropical reef fish. Ciguatoxins that cause ciguatera poisoning are actually produced by microscopic sea plants called dinoflagellates. These toxins become progressively concentrated as they move up the food chain from small fish to large fish that eat them, and reach particularly high concentrations in large predatory tropical reef fish. Barracuda are commonly associated with ciguatoxin poisoning, but eating grouper, sea bass, snapper, mullet, and a number of other fish that live in oceans between latitude 35° N and 35° S has caused the disease. These fish are typically caught by sport fishermen on reefs in Hawaii, Guam and other South Pacific islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Ciguatoxin usually causes symptoms within a few minutes to 30 hours after eating contaminated fish, and occasionally it may take up to 6 hours. Common nonspecific symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, excessive sweating, headache, and muscle aches. The sensation of burning or "pins-and-needles," weakness, itching, and dizziness can occur. Patients may experience reversal of temperature sensation in their mouth (hot surfaces feeling cold and cold, hot), unusual taste sensations, nightmares, or hallucinations. Ciguatera poisoning is rarely fatal. Symptoms usually clear in 1 to 4 weeks. |
| I was diving on a broken up wreck in St.Kitts in shallow waters. At one spot you could swim between the two halves which weren't far apart. So I come out the other side into a school of tiny silvery fish. As the school dissipates, I come face to face with a nice 3.5' long barracuda, just immobile in the water, staring right at me. Cool moment. |
| Used to go down to Islamorada every summer for a couple weeks during the start of lobster season (dive) and would carry them around in big nets underwater after we grabbed them. More often than not we had barracudas around and several times would have one or two following right behind the net one of us carried holding the lobster. Sometimes they were LARGE. Never had any bad encounters but had my rectum clinched up a few times. |
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I was way off. I saw the thread title and instantly thought http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=57522&stc=1&d=1232499393 Damn, that's what I was hoping for as well. 
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Barracudas and shiny do not go together well. They see something flashing and think the dinner bell is being rung. The big ones are not to be messed with lightly. This is true. When i was in HS, my buddies & I would go spearfishing every weekend. One weekend, we were on our way out to one of our spots, a reef lighthouse just off Islamorada Key. A friend of mine, had a stainless steel watch & I remember us telling him to take it off before he went in or one of the cudas was going to try and take a bite out of his hand. Guy did not listen. When we jumped in, there were fish everywhere & of course there were a few Barracudas. Within a minute, a little one, about 1 foot, came straight at his watch, lol. Nothing happened, but he got scared & jumped back in the boat. We just told him to take off the watch & come back in. It was no big deal, But I remember being amazed at how quickly the Barracuda came up to him, after he jumped in the water. |
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I see this logo a little too often sometimes at work
Liveleak video? Cuda says NO! |
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Quoted: Heart. Barf. |
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I am sure they would be impressed by your "lack of" talent. Quoted:
Well, aren't you a magic man. |
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Quoted: I was way off. I saw the thread title and instantly thought http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/attachment.php?attachmentid=57522&stc=1&d=1232499393 I drove one back in the early '70's. |
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I had my Barracuda moment snorkling off Key West.
I was like wow nice pike, then I was like, wait, this is salt water Just as I realized what was twelve feet away hovering and watching me, was not a pike, it showed its teeth and bolted like an arrow. I was like fuck, Barracuda, and that there was not a damn thing I could have done had it decided to bolt at me |
| I've never seen the Atlantic ones but we used to catch the Pacific ones (smaller) all the time when I lived in SoCal. Throw a shiny spoon with a single barbless hook into the school and reel as fast as you could. You could smelled them too when they were schooled up. |