All in a days work
Submitted by bitten on Tue, 2012-11-27 19:42
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had a good day on the water today, the yellowfin were playing the game with the odd dollie thrown in for good luck
caught these this evening north west of barrow island all fish were caught on handlines, theres a few sore fingers this evening.
we also caught rainbow runners, stripey and mack tuna and one giant shark.
biggest yellow fin was 26kg and the dolly went 124 cm shame i didnt get a photo for the record board before he was released.
saw a strange shark today couldnt get a photo unfortunatly but it looked a bit like a bronzie except it had really long pectoral fins with white tips and a white tipped dorsal fin, ive never seen one before, anyone have any ideas??
enjoy the pics boys, some good advantages of working at sea
dan
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Alan James
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Tough work
I wish I had a job like yours. On the shark note it sounds like an oceanic whitetip shark. They dont have the best of records as you can see in the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_whitetip_shark
bitten
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good one alan thats him even
good one alan thats him even had those same pilot fish with him
Alan James
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In Jacques Cousteau's book 'The Shark'
he ranked the oceanic whitetip as majestic and yet a villain as I recall. He called it 'lord longinamus' as a show of respect and commented that it appeared to have the ability to swim backwards seemingly drawing divers away from the boat when they were wanting to film it and then when the distance was created it would become aggressive. Fact or fiction I don't know but it made good reading.
sea-kem
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Swines! What boat are you
Swines! What boat are you working on Bitten?
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Adam Gallash
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sweet
Nicely done fellas, making me miss my cruisy ocean jobs from the past. Ahh the red dirt is just so much nicer to look at (I'll keep telling myself that)
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soupster51
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Result
If only every day was that good. Maybe it is for you lads. Top result for the effort that's for sure.
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black gen
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apparently the oceanic
apparently the oceanic whitetips are referred to as the 'dogs of the sea' by early sailors and ocean goers.....
one of the boys seen one while diving here a while back, harrassed the fuck outta them both, kept coming back buzzing them over and over apparently...aggressive as
Versus
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Jeesus them fish on
Jeesus them fish on handlines... No wonder u got carbontex gloves on haha. Whats the go with fishing off the boats, I thought it was a no-go on pretty much every vessel? My brothers on a boat up there too, hes spewin at all the fish he says and cant have a go at
bitten
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Technically yes, but the
Technically yes, but the skipper is a keen fisherman he's out there before I am, as long as no one gets a hook through there hands no one knows, if anyone Asks those fish just jumped on board
Alan James
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I commend your skipper's work ethic
Should be more of it and add to that a bit of common sense rather than restrictive rules and regs.
ca11um
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thats awesome!! My mate
thats awesome!! My mate works on a big oil rig ship and he does the same, biggest he has caught is a 75kg YFT!!
MattMiller
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That's nuts
wish I could do that at work