Hamuwaja
27-08-07, 09:29 AM
Hey Guys,
Took the boat out from pittwater on saturday morning, around 6am...
(its a 38ft sun runner) so me, my Fishin buddy dave, and another one James, headed out...
on the ride out we sucked down our kwells tablets (the best thing since sliced bread)
and finally got to the point in pittwater where we could open it up.... Throttle down, and out to the valient.....
Now Firstly, lets just say, we have tied up off here 5 or 6 times over the last few months, and today, we circled and circled, with no luck locating the tie off.... (we suspect it has been cut, cause we found the wreck several times on the sounder....)
Fished here for a little while on anchor, but nothing but baby flatties, we were too far of the wreck...
Not to worry, lets head off to east reef... (i have a new gps point i wanna try) ....
Anyway, as soon as the anchor was set, and the first line dropped, we were on....
We were lucky enough to find a small scool of trevally, who kept coming and going.... some good leather jackets...
a bunch of wrasses, and reef fish we put back (not bacause of the size, but we believe firmly in only keeping what you will eat and use within the week....
So we kept a couple of leather jackets, a nice seargent baker, and 1 travallies.... also a blind shark, and a PJ...
we had caught about 4-5 pj's each as well, so we were sore, but had fun...
Anyway, after a few hours of just us there, by lunchtime we had boats popping up around us... but no one seemed to be catching a great deal...
(except for us)
anyway, next thing i know, the inevitable happens, another cruiser, about the same size as us, powers past within 10 feet of us.. literally, no exxagerations... shaking around, we armed up with pillies, and were going up front to launch them at these idiots...
When we see that they have cut sharp around the front of us, and they were trolling a line... which was now running along the anchor chain, and side of our boat....
THATS IT!!!!!
I dove to the back, grabbed my knife and cut them offf...
i wasnt going to deal with untangling from my anchor or worse the props....
anyway, gave it a yank before i cut off their line, and then proceeded to pull up what they were troling...
Cheers guys ... Brand New Rapala looking lure.... Maddest slimey mackeral lure i have seen...
anyway, like i have said in previous forums, i have all the time in the world for curtious people... but when you start being stupid, you get what you deserve..
anyway i wanna finish this on a happy note... so here are some pics, of us boys, and the fish we got...
P.S- the cruiser in the background is not the one we are talking about... they were great .. approached slow, kept their distance, and we both had a great time... (we saw them pull up a couple.. but saw them watch us pull up our heaps)
Secret.... - Burly bombs.... there is the torpedo which u send down, and it releases the burley on the bottom... get one.... and burley whenever the bites start to die... (if burleying on top, you will more than likely lose your burley, and send the fish somewehre else.... )
Damn, for some reason i cant post the pics.. will do soon...
Took the boat out from pittwater on saturday morning, around 6am...
(its a 38ft sun runner) so me, my Fishin buddy dave, and another one James, headed out...
on the ride out we sucked down our kwells tablets (the best thing since sliced bread)
and finally got to the point in pittwater where we could open it up.... Throttle down, and out to the valient.....
Now Firstly, lets just say, we have tied up off here 5 or 6 times over the last few months, and today, we circled and circled, with no luck locating the tie off.... (we suspect it has been cut, cause we found the wreck several times on the sounder....)
Fished here for a little while on anchor, but nothing but baby flatties, we were too far of the wreck...
Not to worry, lets head off to east reef... (i have a new gps point i wanna try) ....
Anyway, as soon as the anchor was set, and the first line dropped, we were on....
We were lucky enough to find a small scool of trevally, who kept coming and going.... some good leather jackets...
a bunch of wrasses, and reef fish we put back (not bacause of the size, but we believe firmly in only keeping what you will eat and use within the week....
So we kept a couple of leather jackets, a nice seargent baker, and 1 travallies.... also a blind shark, and a PJ...
we had caught about 4-5 pj's each as well, so we were sore, but had fun...
Anyway, after a few hours of just us there, by lunchtime we had boats popping up around us... but no one seemed to be catching a great deal...
(except for us)
anyway, next thing i know, the inevitable happens, another cruiser, about the same size as us, powers past within 10 feet of us.. literally, no exxagerations... shaking around, we armed up with pillies, and were going up front to launch them at these idiots...
When we see that they have cut sharp around the front of us, and they were trolling a line... which was now running along the anchor chain, and side of our boat....
THATS IT!!!!!
I dove to the back, grabbed my knife and cut them offf...
i wasnt going to deal with untangling from my anchor or worse the props....
anyway, gave it a yank before i cut off their line, and then proceeded to pull up what they were troling...
Cheers guys ... Brand New Rapala looking lure.... Maddest slimey mackeral lure i have seen...
anyway, like i have said in previous forums, i have all the time in the world for curtious people... but when you start being stupid, you get what you deserve..
anyway i wanna finish this on a happy note... so here are some pics, of us boys, and the fish we got...
P.S- the cruiser in the background is not the one we are talking about... they were great .. approached slow, kept their distance, and we both had a great time... (we saw them pull up a couple.. but saw them watch us pull up our heaps)
Secret.... - Burly bombs.... there is the torpedo which u send down, and it releases the burley on the bottom... get one.... and burley whenever the bites start to die... (if burleying on top, you will more than likely lose your burley, and send the fish somewehre else.... )
Damn, for some reason i cant post the pics.. will do soon...