kingfishaholic

hey prawn star ye thanks mate it was a tough day but one i dont think ill ever forget i learnt one important thing...never put yourself in a situation were you have to rely on an old boat!!! Dont think ill ever go on that boat again... kingfishaholic

Well what a day monday was... Decided to take a day off school as i had completed my trials and go for a fish and since my uncle wasnt working he offered to take us on the boat he just purchased which i now know is definitely not seaworthy the day started off nicely and we were on the water by 8 am...we rocked up to the front of the oil warf staying 100m away and anchored threw our lines in and waited...things were going quite slowly but eventually we started to get some bites (compliment of a decent berley trail i was feeding behind the boat)i landed the first fish of the day a nice trevally and things only got better after that withing the next hour we caught 6 trevally a flathead a flounder and a massive octopus we also lost plently of decent fish due to tangles and lack of space on the tiny boat...finally things slowed down and we werent getting any of our baits touched furthermore the wind started picking up and there was a heavy westerly blowing us around Due to the greedy nature of humans we made a decision (which i soarly regret right now) to keep fishing a different spot until we caught a few more fish we lifted up the anchor and motored a bit further towards the southern side of the warf...we found what we htought was a nice spot and tried to set the anchor however due to the collosal waves (weather worsened at this stage) the anchor wouldnt hold and the boat was being tossed aroud like a toy duck in a bathtub and we were drifting at a very fast pace towards the oilwarf...we waited for the anchor to hold but it wouldnt!!!so we attempted to start the motor and it wouldnt start ahhh!!!while my uncle kept on trying to start the motor me and my other uncle got two ores from the bottom of the boat and tried to start rowing but we wwere being tossed around and by this stage we were directly infront of the oilwarf...we tried to push away from the warf with the ores but the waves tossed us beneath the warf and we were banging around everywhere the boat was being smashed against the pylons and the thing that kept occupying my mind was i hope we dont die with such an awesoem catch (reely good haul for me) no!!!people say that when your about to die the thing you love most flashes between your eyes but thats absolute bs as all i could see was whitewash and the boat being smashed around... a glimmer of hope was on the horizon as we were about to drift through to the other side and into open water but noooo the anchor (which was new and belonged to my baot) got stuk on one of the pylons. At this stage our plight seemed absolutley hopeless and we were stuck beneath the oilwarf smashing around then finally one of those tug boats appeared out of nowhere and started to try to throw us a rope they shouted for us to cut the anchor rope and i was hesistant at first but after alot of shouting and persuading form my frantic uncles i cut the roap...they threw us a roap and puuled us out from beneath the warf thank god!!!If you think the adventure is over im sorry to say no its not...the tug boat told us to hold onto one of those yellow bouys attached to the seafloor until they sent a boat to take us to the ramp...we held on for a while but guess what our bad luck just got worse and the knot attaching the yellow bouy to the rope undone after about 10 mins with noone in sight. We started to drift towards the rocks and we started to row again!!!BAng BAng BAng we were hitting the rocks we pushed away and eventually we drifted to sand...land finally!!!!!We dragged the boat up on shore and fell to our knees in exhaustion. Ironically we were at captain cooks landing spot and i cant help but wonder whether his journey to australia and landing to shore was as troublesome as our short disastrous journey... we called for marine help...we sat and cleaned our catch and also collected some oysters of the rocks (first time) and after about 2 hours we saw a police vessel and finally our adventure was over... i guess those man vrs wild documentries paid off and i actually enjoyed this adventure as i was filled with adrenalin from fear and strength from my enthusiasm i guess we should be thankfull we survived and we are...below are some of the photos we took afterwards :)although no one was in the mood i couldnt help taking a few shots... regards yusuf

Nice catch why wats min size boat for browns do u rejon I can go in my canoe ...jkin...but ye wars the min size

Hey Andrew nice report erred u fish anyone have any luck in botany

yeh the other day i saw 30cm kingfish being sold at the fish market and i was like what the hell!!!how can you know if there farmed or not?

thanx ye i like usin chiken but not much luk with it during winter...

nice catch awesome...what bait did you use and do you know for berley how do you disperse it and what should i put for berley...thanx

ye the mouth of the cooks is a possibility but isnt that area polluted??

ye gud idea.... but i dont reely like fishing for blackfish...prefer whiting trevally bream etc any advice on those species...

i fish the bay quite often off boat and land based in summer however havent had any luck at all during winter...hoping to go out for a fish tmrw morinin landbased any tips advice and spots i should try...would appreciate any help...

theyre on there way tonite...lol na they usually school up novemeber

[ ye the more in u get the mroe risky...kyemah is riskier because its less exposed to open waters...is the b bay risky or dangerous to eat from tho??

ye true or a bad days fishing beta then a good days school lol...gud try ull get em next time

lmao not the best is an understatement eating anything from the cooks river is suicide its filthy...me and one of my mates were fishing the warf and caught this masiive trevally and bream wen we gutted them they were all black inside!!!

ye nice catch!!!is winter better for snapper out of the heads and how bout in the bay....

were do u fish off botany land based...ive been dieing to find a good spot