post your funny fishing stories

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

my funniest story is from a couple of years ago, i hired a tinny at golden beach (caloundra) for a day of fishing with me and my fiancee,after a few hours of fishing i wanted to stretch my legs with a bit of a walk around so we headed over to the tip of bribie island,i got my fiancee to drive it up close to the shore and it looked around knee high so i jumped off the front of the tinny when i hit the water it was a bit deeper then expected and my feet never touched the bottom so i pulled myself back into the tinny and got her to nudge the front of the tinny right up in the sand before i jumped out again,the fiancee thought it was hilarious.

was lucky i only had my wallet in my pocket and not my mobile phone

cheers tim

[juicyfruit]

Thumps thinks it’s funny every time he goes out fishing and I'm with him. I'm a bit of a clumsy [smiley=clown.gif].

Well I think that is what he is laughing at.

Might be the way I rename every fish species we catch...eg, the Flathead that was hooked in the bum is now called the Poofter Fish instead of Flathead etc.

He might be laughing at the fact that I shed any femineity I may have....

Hell Hun!!!!! WHAT is it that’s so funny when we go fishing together, is it my lookssssssss ......sorry female moment. lol

Don't have a particular funny moment whilst fishing, but sure do have fun moments whilst fishing.

Juicy

[Grand_Marlin]

My Grandfather and Uncle were fishing the river in the 14ft tinny.
My Grandfather tuned in on the spot he wanted and said "Righto, throw the anchor over"
My Uncle obliged, as he was very keen to fish, but inexperienced in the boat....
After a few minutes my Grandfather noticed a bit of drift and thought the anchor must be dragging. When he looked out the front of the boat, there was no anchor rope in the water....
He asked my Uncle "Did that anchor have a rope on it?"
To which my Uncle replied "Nope", still blissfully unaware of what he had done...

[thumps]

fishing in Tassie ...off Tasman island


my best Mate hooked a variety of wrasse thats pink in colour... hooked in the butthole


from then on it was known as a pink poofter fish thats always looking for a pr**k in the ar*e

still to this day..the Charter operater tells me...every time one comes over the side..he thinks of my mate

so the flathead thing just follows a moment...

[Grand_Marlin]

Down in Tassie, two blokes (relatively inexperienced) were tuna fishing out of St. Helens.
They reported on the radio that they had a double hookup of big fish, the fish had gone deep and it looks like they were in for a good fight.

2 hours later, they were still on the fish. Big Yellowfin was the call, as there had been a few around the 60kg landed previously that week.
A few boats had cruised past the two lucky anglers, who could be seen (one on each side of the boat) with the short strokers and 15kg line working to its limits.

Shortly after the two hour mark, they were seen trolling again, but had gone silent on the radio. Apart from checking in on the regular skeds, they would say nothing about the two big fish.

Most people assumed they had lost both fish and were not in a talking mood...

The truth came out later, after a lot of peer pressure.

They had hooked two 5kg Albacore, which had tangled themselves together under the boat !

Over 2 hours later they realised they were pulling against each other on opposite sides of the boat...

They did land the Albacore though!

[thumps]

Grand Marlin....i can relate to a few of those boofheads down there

[Grand_Marlin]

Doesnt look good for us Thumps, just as well we got out while we still could!!

[theoldlegend]

Grand marlin,

Good one !! Loved it !!

That's the sort of thing I'd do !!

TOL

[thumps]

Don't have a particular funny moment whilst fishing, but sure do have fun moments whilst fishing.

Juicy

i think its funny you lost that Barra 4 winds from the boat

and followed it up with a double cattie hookup on one lure

[rando]

Many years ago a mate of mine was teaching me how to sail . As he had a restaurant we usually went out after work on saturday night, and would therefore be launching well after midnight. We put in down at Rudi Marrs one night and after the pick was down we had a couple of beers and hit the sack.
I usually wake at first light, but because he was working so hard he would usually not surface till 8-9 o,clock.
He was, & still is, not a fan of fishing, doesnt like a mess on his boat.
To pass the time while he slept i wet a line.
On this occassion I was using a L.O.K (our lunch) for bait and got smashed by a monster bream.
As I swung the hooked fish inboard over the transom it spat the hook and landed on my mates chest where he was sleeping on the floor of the boat, then slid into his sleeping bag and continued to flap and wriggle on his chest inside his bag. I was cacking myself by now .
The poor bugger
Eyes still closed a tired and disgruntled voice says "OK OK I GET THE MESSAGE, YOU WANT TO GO SAILING!!!!

That was more than twenty years ago and he never mentions it. but I still get akick out of telling it.
rando

[Reefmaster]

A quick one that comes to my mind was a few years ago when we were fishing Percy Islands out from Stanage Bay (Rockhampton) and after a good fishing session we would anchor in calm waters and clean the fish we just caught. We would anchor on good bottom in 20 mtrs of water with the current roaring while cleaning them and put the lines out to pick up the odd fish. We cleaned all our fish and i noticed the rod with a bend and some weight on it. I jumped on the rod and starting pulling it in and much to my amazment i had hooked one of the big Hussar we only just filleted but what was even funnier was it actually was hooked in the mouth. No joke
What are the chance's of that

Hook must have been just in the right place at the right time.

Regards Greg

[lippa]

a mate and i were casting for prawns in the mouth of nundah creek on a rainy day. tony was so pre-ocupied at looking at his new custom built net that he never put the loop around his wrist before he cast, well we all know what happened the whole net landed in the piss, in shock at losing his new net he belly flopped into the water after it, he got it, standing in ankle deep water

[juicyfruit]

[quote author=juicyfruit link=1138538568/0#1 date=1138596190]

Don't have a particular funny moment whilst fishing, but sure do have fun moments whilst fishing.

Juicy

i think its funny you lost that Barra 4 winds from the boat

and followed it up with a double cattie hookup on one lure [/quote]

Have you been told today?

[Bream_Reaper01]

Mine's along the lines of the 1st story.Me and the brother in law decided to join a fishing club a few years back.On the first trip we had to meet for breifing at a certain sandbar.He jumped out of the boat only 3 to 4 feet from the said sandbar and was down up to his neck in water.At least we found a nice hole for later reference.I'm sure we provided comedy releif for the 20 other people that were there for the breifing.

[bidkev]

We're invincible when we're young! Every word of this is true, just to illustrate what a prat I was when younger.

My first boat was in partnership with a lad who worked on a boating lake (Stanley Park Blackpool UK) He managed to acquire one of these marine ply boats (14ft) with the inboard removed. First up we had to seal the prop hole buy an old Seagull engine and then build a trailer which we did with 4x2.

Down to the beach........you guessed it...the bloody trailer floated!

Anyway, we got the boat off and put to sea (comedy of errors this) First fish into the boat is a 6ft conger eel which immediately latched onto me foot. Screaming at me mate to dong it one with the "priest" (a wrench) he duly did, missed it and went straight through the floor of the boat! After subduing the eel we stuffed some rags into the split and tried to start the engine to return to shore.....nothing! Out came the oars with the wind picking up and water lapping at our ankles.

Safe on shore, home, and rethink the trailer and patch the hole (A piece of ply held in position with tar and tarred over .

Next trip, we decided to go with the old wooden trailer one more time as we were building a steel one but couldn't wait to get fishing. Recovering the boat the winch packed in so we lifted the trailer up and down expecting the boat to slide along the trailer. It broke it's back! Last seen floating into the distance whilst we loaded all the gear onto our old Landie.

Next trip, old steel trailer so no probs there, and a beat up 13 ft glass dinghy. Flat calm sea so venture further afield. The glass gauge is showing low fuel so attempts to refill whilst on the move. I knew little about how the old seagulls work so didn't take care........Bang! I'm in the water in the middle of November!. Told later by my mate (when I'd recovered from pneumonia) that my arm must have brushed the "fly wheel" and that he could see it coming.......partnership dissolved!

I could go on but I don't think I learned *anything* back then. Very little money and even less common sense. I Just kept on taking risks with crap rigs simply for the love of fishing

kev

One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a "battle" that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."