Got a rod and reel..only a few weeks in the water.minimal rust..gave it to my crew.
Just a cheap combo.
Got a rod and reel..only a few weeks in the water.minimal rust..gave it to my crew.
Just a cheap combo.
Seen to ye old caught a boot cartoon.yep size 8 mans gunboot hooked on anchor behind Garden Island on the Tamar.
Cheers
Reidy
I think my chain rapt around a rock .i was on a ledge from 30 m up to 15 and stoped on a nice bomby when i drove my pick off the nose didnt pop back up i then saw we were back in 30m so this thing was just dangling there i asked my mate can he pull it in and he said no way (while he played a tune on the rope) so we couldent even untie it so i drove up to shallower water and gave it some slake and it came off. the only thing i didnt like about it was the gps said formaly mined area so i was trying not to think of what i was hooked on!.
I hooked onto an old piece of train track in the hawkesbury once, tried to dive down to get it, but earlier a small hammerhead had been chewing on the burley bucket, so I went a bit girly man and decided to cut the rope instead
If men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, politicians must be from uranus ?
Well this wasn't caught by my anchor. But I went fishing on the river not too long ago landbased, and was having one of those days where i threw the cast net out and the cord jumped off my hand so i lost it, then one of my rods got a big hit and took off into the middle of the river without me on the end of it. A few swear words later i got back to fishing and thought i had a snag. Pulled it up and on the end of the line was my rod that had just took a swim and attached to that was another rod that had oviously been in the drink for a while. Amazing. I also managed to get my cast net back too!! Smiles all round!!
MUD how exciting
back round '71 in the hawksbury i pulled up a submarine cable, bloody hard getting it off the sand anchor....
then not long later was fishing, mored across the current when a prawn trawler went pass a little close, caught my anchor and dragged us sideways for a bit till i caught the d**kheads eye....never did get that pick back...
neither of which i want to repeat...
cheers Chris
About 18 years ago a fella died when he jumped of the Grafton bridge and hit the walkway on the way down. I remember watching the S.E.S and police boats towing reef picks around trying to find his body. Didn't see them jag him, but they did recover his body and I guess that's how they done it.
Cheer's BAT.
Many years back I had a Haines 680 SC with a 225 Johno on the back and used to fish wide of Moreton.
On a popular though very size-limited pinnacle I tried several times to get my lead filled reef anchor to hold kind of close to the other boats - as you had to to get the fish!
With no success and using the ring recovery float system, I charged off to pull the pick and after hearing a great deal of shouting and yelling, realized I was happily dragging two other boats off the reef having successfully pick up BOTH their anchor ropes.
Being a true man and happy to own up to this stupid action, I cut the rope and ran like all #hit to get away!
I guess they got my damn anchor after they sorted out the mess!
Bat, you mean the big steel bridge with the bend at the western end.....if he jumped off that he wasnt planing on being able to have another go....
That's the one! as kid's we used to jump off the top, as the foot bridge got boring after a few times. The trick was to have someone breaking the water where you would hit and make sure you didnt hit the walk way. The size 9 local cop's hated it.Originally Posted by wayno60
Cheer's BAT.
sitting off the pinkenba rock wall one day and decided to lift the pick. it was a real struggle to get it up but finally saw it was an old crab pot that had been filled with rocks. didnt want to send it back down but it snapped as we lifted it out of the water.
Hey Guys,
A few years ago we had use of a luxury pontoon boat for a weekday.
Enjoyed a nice lunch with beers and prawns anchored just west of the highway bridge on the Pine River.
Come time to head back, we pull up the anchor with a lot of deadweight on the end. As it exits the water we are shocked to find a rifle perfectly caught by the flukes of the anchor lengthwise.
I'm not much of a gun man, but it was easy to see it had been in the water for a very short time, and was an assault rifle of some kind.
We gently undid it from the anchor and left it of the front fishing deck.
On trailling the boat back, we stopped at a police station on the way through, and handed it back, and gave them the story.
About a week later, we got a call from the cops to tell us it had been used in an armed robbery that week and we had to come in and do a statement.
They were still able to get prints off it and eventually caught the guy.
Every time the anchor comes up now I look at it with anticipation of the next find.
Regards
Darren
There must be lots of guns on the bottom waiting for an anchor to find them i guess. Several years ago I did a canoe run up as far as possible in Nundah Creek. Found a safe that had been cut open and tossed into the creek. it barely cleared the bank and would only be underwater at the top of the tide. Cops didn't show too much interest in it because it was so muddy there.
Jack.
I lifted a shopping trolly up with pick in the middle of Morten Bay once.
Not an easy task!
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