tigerprawn
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It’s a wrap on the lid . I got them years ago to try out to see how long they last. Still hanging in there.Nice fish! What the heck is the white stuff on that downrigger?
It’s a wrap on the lid . I got them years ago to try out to see how long they last. Still hanging in there.Nice fish! What the heck is the white stuff on that downrigger?
Don't blame you for getting annoyed with those hypocritesOut of Cattle pt. at 9:00 towards the flats. After only 10 mins of trolling in 75' of water, a soft hit on the rod tip that went went heavy. Fortunate to boat a chunky 80cm 16 pounder. Would love to see one of those 80cm 20 pounders. 20 mins later another reel a running, this time a short distance release of a ~ 10 lb'r. Kept at it for another 2 hrs with only one. another smaller chinook. Herring aide skinny G.
Feel a little bad but I lost my temper a little bit with the whale watch gals. The usual paparazzi of whale harassers plus this other little boat leap frogging ahead telling me I shouldn't be fishing within 1500 m's around the whales. Polite and all but aren't they just another propeller? Anyways, I ranted a bit and yes, I did forget my meds this morning. Sorry.
sounds like you crossed over his line, it happens.It was definitely an interesting morning yesterday. Got out to finally fish with my fishing buddy hot-streak on a nice calm
labour day. It was pretty slow for us. We have two double headers. Landed 2 wild coho that were released and boated 1 clipped and a pink. No nookies took our bait! We even had one of our fish get taken by a seal!
enough with the boring stuff, this is the interesting stuff. At around 10:30am between saxe and the green can. This angler started to cuss us as we were trolling by and telling us to stop stop stop. We were about 300m away from him so why would we stop? We didn’t notice anything with our riggers either at the time. He continued to cuss so we turned and headed outwards. Then we noticed that one rigger was hung on something and thought it was seaweed. Took that up and it was heavy so then we stopped to undo it all, we grabbed the hook and freed our DR ball and carried on. This guy decides to pick up his gear and drive directly towards us and turns to the last minute and starts again with the cursing and cussing “you cut my line, you cut my line. Why you do that and a bunch of swearing…”, we explained that we didn’t and we freed ourselves from whatever we had going on and went our way. I decided that if they were going to do anything. I wanted to document this. He was also drifting towards another yellow boat while yelling at us. What a morning!
Very embarrassing to see anglers lose it when he could have simply asked instead of accusing us for cutting his line. Most likely he got hung up and the line got cut… no one is going to cut your line… very embarrassing!
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I had a front row seat to this interaction and it made no sense to me at all. I can confirm you were nowhere near his boat when he started yelling and anyway how could you know he was hung up? Thanks for explaining your side of the story.It was definitely an interesting morning yesterday. Got out to finally fish with my fishing buddy hot-streak on a nice calm
labour day. It was pretty slow for us. We have two double headers. Landed 2 wild coho that were released and boated 1 clipped and a pink. No nookies took our bait! We even had one of our fish get taken by a seal!
enough with the boring stuff, this is the interesting stuff. At around 10:30am between saxe and the green can. This angler started to cuss us as we were trolling by and telling us to stop stop stop. We were about 300m away from him so why would we stop? We didn’t notice anything with our riggers either at the time. He continued to cuss so we turned and headed outwards. Then we noticed that one rigger was hung on something and thought it was seaweed. Took that up and it was heavy so then we stopped to undo it all, we grabbed the hook and freed our DR ball and carried on. This guy decides to pick up his gear and drive directly towards us and turns to the last minute and starts again with the cursing and cussing “you cut my line, you cut my line. Why you do that and a bunch of swearing…”, we explained that we didn’t and we freed ourselves from whatever we had going on and went our way. I decided that if they were going to do anything. I wanted to document this. He was also drifting towards another yellow boat while yelling at us. What a morning!
Very embarrassing to see anglers lose it when he could have simply asked instead of accusing us for cutting his line. Most likely he got hung up and the line got cut… no one is going to cut your line… very embarrassing!
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Maybe he had a fish on took a big run and ran into other line. I am just guessing.sounds like you crossed over his line, it happens.
most guys will put the boat in nutral untangle the gear and carry on.
too bad some people have such bad tempers.
Yeah I get a kick out of that too. Got a football 79cm and it was 16.5lb. Even checked my scale with my 15lb rigger ball and it was bang on.… Would love to see one of those 80cm 20 pounders.
Yeah I get a kick out of that too. Got a football 79cm and it was 16.5lb. Even checked my scale with my 15lb rigger ball and it was bang on.
Quick google search shows you the average 80cm is like 14-15lb too.
Good ol fish tales…
Not sure why so many comments were around him playing a big fish. He wasn't playing any fish with no rod in his hand... unless his downrigger was playing the fish for him. maybe a new way to catching fish is yelling in the back and hoping the fish would jump into his boat.Maybe he had a fish on took a big run and ran into other line. I am just guessing.