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General => General Topwater & Jigging Discussion => Topic started by: Graham Scott on March 04, 2009, 04:43:54 PM
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Ever hooked a fish only to lose it and watch someone else catch it?
This happened to me on the weekend and wonder if it's common.
There were big queenfish everywhere, I hooked up almost immediately and as usual the queenie raced around being silly. A mate at the back of the boat sees all the action and lets rip with a pathetic cast right over the top of me, in fact not much past my rod tip. I'm tangled with an aerial popper at the front of the boat, the queenie's under the boat somewhere near the prop, my mate at the back is laughing.
Next thing I'm busted, no fish no popper no leader. Old mate at the back is now onto a good fish?
By the time I get to the back there's a popper off his rod tip, a metre of my braid, my trace, my lure,and a big queenie foul hooked.
Mate reckons I'm a useless fisherman and he's fantastic, can catch fish without his popper ever getting in the water.
The guy in the photo is not the culprit, the thief was too weak from laughing to hold up his (my) fish.
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I think that's the wrong photo as the lure is still attached to the rod....I was sure I had a photo, hmmm, maybe he stole that too.
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I found one of the perpetrator, and he's laughing, not sure if that's the fish though.
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:D :D :D
Havent had that experience however its like a race to get the first cast in to likely fish holding spots when Travis and I head out. This usually ends up with no one driving the boat :o :o
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Travis,
That would be BIG worry with my boat. I can't push it back off the rocks
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I've had a GT hit my popper and then lose interest only to crash tackle a mates popper a few meters away... not so much stealing but can be a bit annoying sometimes.
When we used to bottom fish sometimes you'd get bricked by a big trout and then a few minutes later your mate pulls it up with all your tackle hanging out it's mouth >:(
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I'm not sure my incident is stealing.........
I use to be a very keen fisho for jewies (mulloway) and I had one capture on Fraser Island that nearly got me lynched. As any one who fishes for jewlies know, they often follow the tailor. The beach must have had 50 fishos catching tailor when I went to the end of the gutter which the fish had come from and cast in a tailor fillet. Within minutes, I hooked up to a solid jewie. Unfortunately, the fish was big and it ran the full length of the gutter. I tangled up with some twenty plus tailor fisherman. Boy, I've never been so abused in my life! Guys were swearing at me like crazy and because the tailor were biting their heads off, they just cut their lines, re-rigged and got back to fishing. When I landed that jewie, I collected four tailor and another dozen ganged hooks. The jewie was over 20kg and the tailor were about a kilo each.
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haha that's a good way to meet people Brandon!
cheers,
steve
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Brandon,
You win. You stole 4 fish and a heap of gear...amazing theft.
Widening the topic on theft. we had a local guy charter a boat with 3 of his mates who were all lawyers from around the country. They caught a stack of red emperor, trout and nannygai, filleted em all, shared them out, packed them in eskies and headed their separate ways.
Then the local guy gets a call from his mate at the airport. "They won't let the fish on the plane". "What a shame" says local guy "I'll come and get them to save wasting them." He gets another 2 similar calls the same day and I think he is still eating red emperor while all his mates got were photos. I reckon he probably stole 30 fish
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When I was on the beach collating all the ganged hooks, I had two guys walk past me and abuse me again! Not one person congratulated me on the jewie!
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You shoudn't have been laughing so loud :D
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I'm not sure my incident is stealing.........
I use to be a very keen fisho for jewies (mulloway) and I had one capture on Fraser Island that nearly got me lynched. As any one who fishes for jewlies know, they often follow the tailor. The beach must have had 50 fishos catching tailor when I went to the end of the gutter which the fish had come from and cast in a tailor fillet. Within minutes, I hooked up to a solid jewie. Unfortunately, the fish was big and it ran the full length of the gutter. I tangled up with some twenty plus tailor fisherman. Boy, I've never been so abused in my life! Guys were swearing at me like crazy and because the tailor were biting their heads off, they just cut their lines, re-rigged and got back to fishing. When I landed that jewie, I collected four tailor and another dozen ganged hooks. The jewie was over 20kg and the tailor were about a kilo each.
Thats a good one Brandon,
The QLD tailor fisho's are a passionate bunch....I have never been into tailor much...
Jew on the other hand...Well yes I love those silver grunting slabs. ;)
Pete
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I wasn't laughing per se - I was just happy with the fish - and sixteen ganged hooks, not to mention the tailor! :D
You shoudn't have been laughing so loud :D
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what !! they did'nt congratulate you :o thats a bit rude :D :D
maybe you could have offered to sell the tailor back to the highest bidder ;D ;D
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Some of those guys looked like they were from redneck city. I wasn't game to try to go back for another fish.
What was really funny was that with all the fishermen, bait and bleeding tailor in the water, the inevitable happened and the sharks moved in, which hardly improved the mood of some of those angry bastards as they all had to stay in really shallow water. You could see them there hurling abuse at the shark.
I actually wanted to go get my shark outfit (very agricultural in those days - a Senator 6/0 on a 10 foot Butterworth) and try to catch one but I would have been killed and thrown in, I think.
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A slightly different version of "stealing" but equally painful for me!
Whilst new to the GT thing, me and Stephen (regular on this site) took a trip off Cairns. I was severely undergunned when a 8-10kg GT hit my popper in 2 metres of water with 30lb braid on a Barra rod! Steve did a great job with the boat and I eventually landed the fish.
Steve then "innocently" asked if I could take a photo of him with the fish, and I was happy to oblige. A few weeks later steve was wearing a nice new shirt and baseball cap from a different forum. I asked how he got them, and he sheepishly admitted to winning "fish of the month" WITH MY FISH - LIKE AN IDIOT, I HAD EVEN TAKEN THE PHOTO!!
Steve is a great bloke, but clearly suffers little from guilt, as he steadfastly refused to give up either the shirt or the cap!
Just thought you might all like to know in case you end up on a NOMAD trip and Steve wants a photo of that 35kg trophy!
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Come on Simmo, your memory must have gone in the tropical sun. I wouldn't do a thing like that. (And there was no cap by the way) :)
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That is the problem with deceit - you stick to the lies for so long you start to believe them yourself!
I didn't like that shirt anyhow!
PS Guys, what did I tell you about Steve's lack of guilt!
SIMMO
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Ok,
I now award the trophy to Stephen.
Brandon you are now relegated to second. Although you stole more, Brandon, I think the devious underhand nature displayed by Stephen sets a new benchmark.
I'll be keeping an eye on my mate as well and see if he turns up in the paper holding a big queenie.