fishing from boat ramp jetties

[alleycat]

Toorbul ramp is the same, hillbillies with multiple rods on any given sunday.

[Dignity]

The Parkyn Ave, Mooloolaba pontoon often has anglers at night time fishing, sometimes they pull their lines in at others they wait until you are on top of them. I just keep motoring in and exchange pleasantries with them, after all it is their gear that is going to be damaged in the process, also my deckie is big and ugly enough and they stop them complaining when he gets dropped off at the pontoon.

[gruntahunta]

Hmmmmm.......usual boaties here.....must be blowin outside...

[astro66]

hahaha grunta ...true...

[NAGG]

Hmmmmm.......usual boaties here.....must be blowin outside...

I see you disliked the original post - Why ?
Are these not facilities that are installed to help with the access of boats into and out of the water ? - they are not fishing platforms .
You dont mind having slippery mud on them which is both dangerous & messy ? .
Swimming on the boat ramp ?



Chris

[gruntahunta]

Of course you are correct Nagg....I just disagreed cause almost every ramp I visit does have a kid or someone trying to catch a fish and in over 50 years of boating, I have only encounted one person that gave me grief...so That is why I disagreed, from my own lifetime experience.....

a bit of mud on a pontoon or a kid having a swim doesn't worry me in the least....yes it is against the rules and regulations.....have you ever broken one? I know I have.

Best advise I can offer you, as you obviously wanted some feedback from my disagree post, is too try and get along with fellow people who really aren't trying to ruin your day but are trying to enjoy theirs and you will enjoy life a whole lot better when you look at it from this point of view...works for me anyway....so there is why I hit the disagree button, hope that answers your questions to your satisfaction.

[NAGG]

Of course you are correct Nagg....I just disagreed cause almost every ramp I visit does have a kid or someone trying to catch a fish and in over 50 years of boating, I have only encounted one person that gave me grief...so That is why I disagreed, from my own lifetime experience.....

a bit of mud on a pontoon or a kid having a swim doesn't worry me in the least....yes it is against the rules and regulations.....have you ever broken one? I know I have.

Best advise I can offer you, as you obviously wanted some feedback from my disagree post, is too try and get along with fellow people who really aren't trying to ruin your day but are trying to enjoy theirs and you will enjoy life a whole lot better when you look at it from this point of view...works for me anyway....so there is why I hit the disagree button, hope that answers your questions to your satisfaction.

This is the first time I've felt the need to go to print on the subject ...... depending on where I have launched - it's a fairly common issue - I dont know how many times I've had to pull a prop off to unwrap line because I've spooled someone at a boat ramp ....... so clearly people dont have the smarts to recover their line when boat comes in .
These blokes couldn't give a toss ..... they had a couple of minutes but even continued to fish as I backed away from the pontoon (which is when I picked up his line) - then to see your made nearly go ass over tit as he gets off on the pontoon because of the mud was enough.
there were other options for these people to fish (rockwall) ....... & even for the kids to swim - but no

Chris

[Volvo]

Of course you are correct Nagg....I just disagreed cause almost every ramp I visit does have a kid or someone trying to catch a fish and in over 50 years of boating, I have only encounted one person that gave me grief...so That is why I disagreed, from my own lifetime experience.....

a bit of mud on a pontoon or a kid having a swim doesn't worry me in the least....yes it is against the rules and regulations.....have you ever broken one? I know I have.

Best advise I can offer you, as you obviously wanted some feedback from my disagree post, is too try and get along with fellow people who really aren't trying to ruin your day but are trying to enjoy theirs and you will enjoy life a whole lot better when you look at it from this point of view...works for me anyway....so there is why I hit the disagree button, hope that answers your questions to your satisfaction.

Must say i have to agree with Gruntahunter on this one and mainly for the reasons he states. So much land up this way being taken away from te Kids who may want to go enjoy a wee bit Fishing and cant because tthey would have to stand up to their u-know whats in mud or sharp slippery rocks.
If it hasnt been the Port Authority that taken the land away then its Industry.. Between Ports and Councils here have been promising to erect Fishing Pontoon or Fingers off the bundwalls fer yonks but too tight to give a rats arse in that direction and not all Kids Parents can afford Boats like you or i , or are just not interested in the passtime so Kids have to find elsewhere and its up to us to have patience , "Live n Let Live "as the saying goes and share an area without to much fuss.
I know where your comming from mate and can sympathise but having a good memory and remembering my Childhood akin to what i described above i certainly will have patience.
They are our future fair dinkum Rec Fishos maybe ey??..

[Dignity]

Watch this space - just read that the Parkyn Ave Mooloolaba ramps are to get some more pontoons

[gruntahunta]

Fishing or boating.......or both lol

[Dignity]

Probably both, not sure which ramp they will be on, the coast guard side or the eastern ramp, or possibly both.

[NAGG]

I understand the whole kid fishing off the jetty thing ( these were adults) ...... but there are fishing platforms in the brissy river - A 10 minute drive could have had this bloke fishing off one -
It's not about being mean spirited or selfish ...... it's just that these pontoons are built for boaties just like boat trailer parking bays are not just really big car parking spaces .

Chris

[lbger]

When i was a kid i used to fish off a few jetties but they were really quiet ones, cant think of a worse spot than to try fishing off a jetty when there is constantly boats coming in, dropping off, tying up etc.. and to let your kids swim at the ramp.. wow!! That's another level of stupid, its hard enough trying to drive your boat onto a trailer in 25knots let alone dodging kids as well.
Most ppl are pretty good but like most things in life there is always a few ppl that refuse (or i genuinely believe just dont know) to do the right thing.

[NAGG]

When i was a kid i used to fish off a few jetties but they were really quiet ones, cant think of a worse spot than to try fishing off a jetty when there is constantly boats coming in, dropping off, tying up etc.. and to let your kids swim at the ramp.. wow!! That's another level of stupid, its hard enough trying to drive your boat onto a trailer in 25knots let alone dodging kids as well.
Most ppl are pretty good but like most things in life there is always a few ppl that refuse (or i genuinely believe just dont know) to do the right thing.

In those conditions - 25knot plus blowing the same direction as the outgoing tide ..... a miss could have seen the boat on top of the kids in the water (conditions were that bad that we were talking about the retrieval on the way back to the ramp) ....... no boatie should have to deal with that stupidity

Chris

[Lancair]

Fishing off pontoons is one thing, it's only line or rods that get wrecked if a boat comes too close. Too bad for those fishing I say. I wait giving them a chance to reel in and move but if they don't, I just keep coming, they soon get the message.

Kids swimming and jumping off the pontoons is another. It happens all too regularly at my local ramp in summer. As does boats speeding in the 4kt zone, don't get me started on that one in a canal no more than 5-6 metres wide at low tide!