XD351 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 (edited) G’day Raiders, This popped up on my Facebook feed, thought I would share it for your enjoyment- haven’t we come a long way ! Then I found this . Edited August 15 by XD351 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve0 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 The scenes of Sydney in the first video made it well worth watching. The second comes later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Funny…smoking inside, and removing hats when inside, completely different to todays society. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 That’s fantastic, thanks for putting those up. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 15 Author Share Posted August 15 27 minutes ago, Blackfish said: That’s fantastic, thanks for putting those up. 👍 My pleasure! I didn’t know they existed until I spotted them on my feed ! There are quite a few old Ron Calcutt and Malcom Florence videos on YouTube as well . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 56 minutes ago, XD351 said: My pleasure! I didn’t know they existed until I spotted them on my feed ! There are quite a few old Ron Calcutt and Malcom Florence videos on YouTube as well . Yep, I have seen most of them back in “the old days” of VHS tapes…. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, noelm said: Yep, I have seen most of them back in “the old days” of VHS tapes…. I wore my ones out watching them - then one day for no particular reason my vhs player chewed up my copy of spinning for Spaniards and had to teach it a lesson with a 14lb sledgehammer . 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Ron Calcutt was one of my hero’s back in the day being Editor of Australian Angler. His adventures on the NSW North Coast made me so keen, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 8 minutes ago, Blackfish said: Ron Calcutta was one of my hero’s back in the day being Editor of Australian Angler. His adventures on the NSW North Coast made me so keen, Ron was a nice guy, drove the camera boat for an episode one time, knew him very well, way ahead of his time in a lot of ways. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 That’s pretty awesome @noelm 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazatherfisherman Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 When I was working at the original fishing museum (at Birkenhead Pt) we had movies similar to these running all day. Bob Dyer donated copies of all of his, along with other well known fishermen such as Zane Gray, Lee Marvin, Greg Norman etc,etc. Sadly on most days there were only one or two people watching them in the museum's auditorium. There was only a $2 museum admission for the day and there were classic's running the whole day 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 What a fantastic thread XD351. That first video was an absolute crack-up with the commentary, music, scenery, etc. I didn't know there were Yellow Cabs here in Sydney. Even the Aussie expert Marlin catcher had a left-hand drive car. The second video I found to be amazing. The footage of that Black Marlin leaping out of the water at the stern of the boat was incredible. Got me thinking too. What is the biggest Marlin caught by a Fishraider? Relate the story of the capture. Good to see that most Marlin are tagged and released to grow, and get caught again. Message for Pickles...definitely NO BANANAS. Apparently, they are doom and gloom for Hawaiin canoe fisherman. LOL. Thanks for the thread XD351. bn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 3 hours ago, noelm said: Ron was a nice guy, drove the camera boat for an episode one time, knew him very well, way ahead of his time in a lot of ways. Only had the pleasure of meeting him once at a tackle show - top bloke and his book , complete book of fishing is one of the best books I have ever read - I rate it and Bethune on bass as the top two books - got to meet Bethune as well - also a really nice bloke ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, big Neil said: What a fantastic thread XD351. That first video was an absolute crack-up with the commentary, music, scenery, etc. I didn't know there were Yellow Cabs here in Sydney. Even the Aussie expert Marlin catcher had a left-hand drive car. The second video I found to be amazing. The footage of that Black Marlin leaping out of the water at the stern of the boat was incredible. Got me thinking too. What is the biggest Marlin caught by a Fishraider? Relate the story of the capture. Good to see that most Marlin are tagged and released to grow, and get caught again. Message for Pickles...definitely NO BANANAS. Apparently, they are doom and gloom for Hawaiin canoe fisherman. LOL. Thanks for the thread XD351. bn My pleasure BN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 (edited) 2 hours ago, wazatherfisherman said: When I was working at the original fishing museum (at Birkenhead Pt) we had movies similar to these running all day. Bob Dyer donated copies of all of his, along with other well known fishermen such as Zane Gray, Lee Marvin, Greg Norman etc,etc. Sadly on most days there were only one or two people watching them in the museum's auditorium. There was only a $2 museum admission for the day and there were classic's running the whole day I remember going to the museum a couple of times when I was a kid - fantastic place ! I was thinking of Lee Marvin and his fishing antics with Brazza just the other day - I always get a laugh from the nickname Marvin gave to Brazza! Edited August 16 by XD351 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 4 hours ago, Blackfish said: Ron Calcutta was one of my hero’s back in the day being Editor of Australian Angler. His adventures on the NSW North Coast made me so keen, He was the reason I got hooked on rock fishing and high speed spinning- I sucked at it but I gave it a good go ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 9 minutes ago, XD351 said: He was the reason I got hooked on rock fishing and high speed spinning- I sucked at it but I gave it a good go ! I think spinning from the rocks hit its heyday around the early ‘70s? Everyone was casting metal lures using long rods and reels like Seascapes and Penn Jigmasters, both pretty poor reels really, but that’s all we had. I used a 499 Mitchel with a bail roller rather than a bail arm, now and then the line would catch on the roller and your “arrow” would just vanish out of sight……amazing how far they go with no line holding them back! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james Cutler Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Great videos. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 I had a shimano tsm 4 ( or was it tss 4 - can’t remember ) on a FSU4120 rod i built. I have had a backlash that locked the spool and snapped the line sending my lure to the horizon so I know the feeling 🤣🤣🤣 I’m not sure when it all started here and considering google and I are not on speaking terms I think my chances of finding that info on the internet are somewhere around zero. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 I was lucky enough to live near and fish with some very switched on people. The jigging “craze” took off big time with a couple of American guys (Handstedt and Gosaphal, not exactly sure of the spelling) but they revolutionised jigging with their super fast taper jig sticks, we were using adapted Snapper and game rods. Those two introduced the GH range of rods (from the initial of their first names) and Ironglass name hit the shores. Those rods accounted for some very big fish, on very primitive metal jigs and mono line, places like “the Banks at Greenwell point. The Humps at Shellharbour and the Peak off Sydney would see hundreds of boats on any weekend, all catching Kingfish in huge numbers and size. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little_Flatty Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, XD351 said: Only had the pleasure of meeting him once at a tackle show - top bloke and his book , complete book of fishing is one of the best books I have ever read - I rate it and Bethune on bass as the top two books - got to meet Bethune as well - also a really nice bloke ! This probably won’t gel with my generation (gen y) and younger but I really miss the era of the fishing book. Do people even write them anymore? There’s just a simultaneous compactness and richness of information in one good fishing book, that cannot match 10,000 hours of YouTube, Facebook and instagram browsing combined. Only this community gives a good book a run for its money and the only thing that can beat all of those things is time on the water. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryder Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 7 hours ago, XD351 said: I wore my ones out watching them - then one day for no particular reason my vhs player chewed up my copy of spinning for Spaniards and had to teach it a lesson with a 14lb sledgehammer . Thanks for posting XD351, How cool is Mr Lawsons car. I saw a stack of Ron Calcutt’s VHS in a 2nd hand shop last week, yours could have been amongst them. Agree his Complete Book Of Fishing is a must. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, Little_Flatty said: This probably won’t gel with my generation (gen y) and younger but I really miss the era of the fishing book. Do people even write them anymore? There’s just a simultaneous compactness and richness of information in one good fishing book, that cannot match 10,000 hours of YouTube, Facebook and instagram browsing combined. Only this community gives a good book a run for its money and the only thing that can beat all of those things is time on the water. Sadly i feel you are correct ! Books also make you mentally visualise what the writer is trying to teach you with their words - use your imagination if you will . Do kids even have one these days ? Seems to me that the information is just blasted into their eyes from a screen and probably dribbles out their ears . One thing books have over all this technology is they don’t need a power source or internet connection - only a small light if reading at night . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 (edited) 15 hours ago, Ryder said: Thanks for posting XD351, How cool is Mr Lawsons car. I saw a stack of Ron Calcutt’s VHS in a 2nd hand shop last week, yours could have been amongst them. Agree his Complete Book Of Fishing is a must. I could be wrong but is that Craig McGill on the front cover when he did the top end. I remember reading his stories in AA. Edited August 16 by mrsswordfisherman name added 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 4 hours ago, noelm said: I was lucky enough to live near and fish with some very switched on people. The jigging “craze” took off big time with a couple of American guys (Handstedt and Gosaphal, not exactly sure of the spelling) but they revolutionised jigging with their super fast taper jig sticks, we were using adapted Snapper and game rods. Those two introduced the GH range of rods (from the initial of their first names) and Ironglass name hit the shores. Those rods accounted for some very big fish, on very primitive metal jigs and mono line, places like “the Banks at Greenwell point. The Humps at Shellharbour and the Peak off Sydney would see hundreds of boats on any weekend, all catching Kingfish in huge numbers and size. Pretty sure Wayne Hanstead and Joe Goespel featured a few times in the videos. They made the “Irons” range of lures…… Also I thought one of them bought into Australia the 19ft Mako Centre Console boat. Friends of mine had one and they recon it was an all weather boat. Didn’t mater what weather you went out in you coped the lot. 😄 Pretty sure I had a JH 996 rod and that was matched with a 4/0 Policansky for jigging. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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