whats your most embarrasing fishing moment

hi all
had my most embarrasing fishing moment this morning,
having been buried,reefed or spooled on all my recent outings i decided to beef up the tackle
new spheros with 65lb braid,80lb wind on leader,owner hooks, if i couldnt land em with that i give up.
went out 5,30 am today,lots of chop and a bit windy so stayed around the reefs
out went the mulie,,after about an hour on light tackle trying to get the missus a feed (unsuccsesfully,one nor west blowie)
off went the mulie,
now im sure you all know that feeling when you lift the rod and it arcs up like moby dick is on the end.....
this time it all feld different,no screaming drag,just kind of really tight then not so tight also the line was under the boat, the water getting rougher and the wind blowing up...
i really just couldnt call it,after about 10 minutes of me puffing and panting (too many fags) i decided it must just be the mother of all weed beds,,but every now and again line would peel off the drag,,very confusing  also by now the boat was drifting quite a lot!!!!!!!!
finally the leader came into sight,pumping more and more now just wanting the pain to end i saw it,,
something i have never caucht before,nor ever want to again
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THE ANCHOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
perfectly hooked through the eyelet

good job i have a sense of humour

cheers


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haha

Sat, 2007-10-20 17:26

at least i now know my knots are up to the job !!!!!

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Embarrasing Moment

Sat, 2007-10-20 18:23

One time at a busy boat ramp pushed the boat off the trailer my mate held the boat steady along side the launching jetty while 2nd mate drove car and trailer away.I quickly jumped aboard while other boaties looked on I proceeded to start the motor it burst into life the loud noise told the story I did'nt put the leg down,I quickly shut the motor off amidst laughs and other obscene yells of abuse.(YOU IDIOT)

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Embarrassment!

Sat, 2007-10-20 20:40

I was fishing Woodman's Point rock groyne earlier this year and I thought I already opened up the bail up and so I let one rip and boy did the metal slice go flying. By the time it landed I was like "Oh my goodness thats a whopper of all cast!" and then I was cranking for so long atleast 5mins. After that I was looking at my reel and all I saw was just line twists and tangles. I was looked upon like "what a total noob". I just turned red! =[


My reels screaming zzzzzzz.... awwww damn it, its another boat!

All the best for the future fishing trips.
Cheers.... Jangles

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I was out for a fish with a

Mon, 2007-10-22 09:16

I was out for a fish with a few mate on a game boat which one of them owned. We didnt have any buisness this day so we thought we'd head out to this spot 20nm off roebuck bay were we had hooked into some unstopables in the last few weeks. I thought i would be a smart arse and spool up my tiagra 30 with some 120lb braid and put a 400ld wire leader on it as well as we werent sure that these unstopables had teeth! Anyway my mates laughed and said you wont be able to hold onto it! Na i said ill be right ill take it easy and i strapped myself up with a full standup harness!

We got to the spot and i sent down a smallist tuna rigged up with 2 x 13/0's and a big lead. It hit the bottom and i waited for a while before i felt an alarming big pull! I striked and set the hooks and it took off like a rocket. We pulled anchor and followed it as much as we could. After about an hour of punishment i was slowly getting line back!

After another hour we had colour and the fish was boat side! However it was no fish but a 12 foot bronzie! It was spent and i was telling the boys "thats how you dot it fellas'! when the guy you reached down to cut the wire off (as he'd had the hooks too far inbeded in his jaw) and we couldnt do much else. This is were it all changed!

Just before me mate cut the cable, i for some stupid reason locked up the drag to FULL! Dont ask me why! So the big shark desided he wanted to have one last attempt to get away and i followed him! Straight over the side i went and he dragged me atleast 2 metres down before i found the lever on the reel and hit freespool!

I swam back up which trust me when i say its not easy when your strapped up with the harness and rod attached...........and a very big pissed off shark below you!

Lets just say i didnt do that again and i never heard the last of it from my mates after that.

PS: we did get the shark back up and it swam off strongly, with this smart ass look on its face too!lol. Ill give him that i shit myself!

 Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!

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Casting a starsinker and

Mon, 2007-10-22 10:45

Casting a starsinker and hitting myself in back of head as i cast it!

K.O'd

Woke up with my face in the sand with a split back of head lol 

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That's a hard one to beat Spess

Mon, 2007-10-22 10:54

Does a one legged duck swim in an eliptic circle

Early morning , sun just breaking the horizon east coast LBG spinning with 4kg line on Shakespeare President Baitcaster , had a hookup at my feet on what looked to be a landable Mack tuna 10kgs or so smoking run almost spooled but he stopped , got him back to about 100 mtrs n nother smokin run , good crowd starting to build about 25 mins into the fight , got him back to about 50 mtrs and another big run , something does'nt feel right , pump wind pump wind still weight there but doe'nt feel right up pops a bloody 5 kg Sargeant Baker , I never lived that one down

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Just one more cast , honest !!!  

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Thats classic tailormarc and

Mon, 2007-10-22 11:05

Thats classic tailormarc and goach! Both made me laugh! hahahaha

Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!

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This story will take the

Mon, 2007-10-22 11:25

This story will take the cake!

Its 100% true but it didnt happen to me....

Mate was fishing inside the fence at buswood casino lake. he was doing well with 3 38cm+ bream!

I was packing my stuff in the car parked under the bridge and i heard some screaming!!!
I look over and see my mate climb the fence and fall to the ground curled up in a ball without his fishing gear.

I rush over and ask whats wrong, he is still screaming in pain to i carry him to the car and lay him down and ask him again  what happend. I thought a snake had bitten him because of the pain he was in. he then said " the sinker hit me in the nuts!" I then asked how.

He said he was snagged on the rope that surrounds the lake to collect the golf balls and pulled back hard and he said that the sinker flew off and him in the right nut he said he heard a load pop!
He was wearing tracky pants aswell
He kept passing out as he was holding his nuts! I rushed him to sircharles gardiner where they rushed him strait in.

Cut a long story short , he had to have his nuts shaved,they then did a ultrasound and found that his right nut inside the sack was torn in half!!!!!!!
The doctors said his nut was the size of a peach and blue and shiney!!!
He went a day in hospitle than they released him...2 days later went for check up and the nut wasnt getting blood supply to heal so they removed it!!!!
They gave him a silicon one to fill the gap lol!

He was on anti erection pills for a month!!!

True story!  It wasnt me...... i will post pic of my nuts tonight to prove it lol * jokes*

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Now thats classic! I bet

Mon, 2007-10-22 11:27

Now thats classic! I bet that he doesnt know that you just told the world though! LOL.

Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!

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Kinda brings a tear to your eyes

Mon, 2007-10-22 11:34

Does a one legged duck swim in an eliptic circle

and a flinch in the groinal region

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Just one more cast , honest !!!  

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Spess: I havnt seen him for

Mon, 2007-10-22 12:53

Spess: I havnt seen him for years lol. As long as i dont say his name , im sure he wont mind lol.


Funniest bit was about a week after it happend, we all got got pulled over in my car and got told by police to stand with our hands against the fence while we all got patted down.

While im getting patted down i here the cop who is patting down my mate yell out " Hey sarge! Iv found a package!!!" My mate followed by saying " Its my nut"! hahahahahaha!!! 

I havnt laughed so hard in all my life! He said the cop was feeling around his groin  and squeezed his nut a few times thinkin it was a package of drugs etc haha!!!

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 The hole made by the hook

Mon, 2007-10-22 13:03

The hole made by the hook is still in my ear.............

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Marc. Thats

Mon, 2007-10-22 13:03

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Marc. Thats so freaking funny mate! Can't stop cacking my pants. =]


My reels screaming zzzzzzz.... awwww damn it, its another boat!

All the best for the future fishing trips.
Cheers.... Jangles