ANZAC Fishing
Submitted by Pete D on Fri, 2008-07-04 09:35
I got an email from Soupster recently – he is doing it hard protecting us all on his way to a secret destination for naval exercises. “I combined with the Navigator and we hit the CO for a fish over Laywood Shoal (about a day west of Darwin). We trolled at seven knots, stopping as required. Sometimes we didn't even get back up to seven knots before stopping again due to another fish being caught. It was an awesome couple of hours. The CO was over the moon with how happy it made the crew, so I have no doubt that it will happen again.”
The fishing ship;
Soupster’s Spaniard
An unknown;
The motley lot;
The catch;
Keep it up Soupster. I sleep much better knowing you are out there protecting us.
Cheers Pete
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That is a serious fishing boat
It looks likethe mackeral was hit by a torpedo.
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Bet THEY don't get pinged LOL
Overalls a great fish - yup, well deserved fish RnR.
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hehe Isn't the record for
hehe
Isn't the record for most water skiers behind a boat an Aust navy patrol boat?
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Great work!
Nice work fella's. That's a Jobfish in there isn't it... it's a cracker!
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Permission was obviously
Permission was obviously granted and I would hope that some 'do gooder' would not go down that path.
These fellow aussies are there for us and this lot are away from their families for at least 3 months. Scott has his second bub due before his ship is back in port, so big congrats to the CO for allowing this. This does not happen every day, thats for sure. They are all working 24/7 for 3 months+.
Cheers Pete
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Thats Awesome,
Good going, enjoy yourselves..
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Good on 'em! That's a
Good on 'em! That's a great haul.....how long was the gaff do you reckon?? :D
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Great stuff Soupster
Cheers
Cheers
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top job soupster, and agree
top job soupster, and agree pete, these guys deserve a bit of fun time while they are out there giving up alot for the protection of our country, imagine a 50knot forcast and being able to say, yeah we can still chuck a rod in today LOL.
Lucky guy to be able to fish like that and get some great fish too.
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RST
I hope th skipper's got an RST
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fair go #2, you only need 1
fair go #2, you only need 1 per boat/ ship /aircraft carrier
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Oh yeah forgot LOL
Soupster'll have one LOL
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They are saving the country money
By catching their own food.
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Good stuff!
Mate, I wish I can fish from a work site. Seriously they some good fish Soupster! Should shoot one out of the missile holes lol.
Cheers lads,
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I recognise the top two tuna
I recognise the top two tuna as mack tuna, and the one on the right is an albacore, but would the other three be longtails(nothern bluefin)?
I think it's great that those guys are catching their own food and saving a bit of taxpayer hard-earned....well done, fellas!
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ANZAC fishing
a great post...great to see the guys having some fun and supplying the crew with fresh food. They're on the ocean 24/7...why not ;-D
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Good to see it still happens
years ago when I was on the Derwent we used to stop at the Monties quite abit,we even lost a derrick winch up there with half a cow on a bent crow bar for a hook.Only happen with one skipper,loved his fishing as well .Keep up the great work fellas you will never get a better job.
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I used to be on the same
I used to be on the same class of ship and on occasions we used to get to have a fish around Chrissy Island etc. Big YFT and wahoo. My brother was on a patrol boat as a nav and used to fish some awesome ground off cape laveque etc for big spanyids and more.
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Flex!
Already seen the pics but yeh pretty funny how he makes the big CO stop for a quick fish. The crew would function better with a bit of time off considering they're rostered on 24 hours a day so a bit a flex.....rod flex that is :)
Well done again mate, look forward to catching up with ya on return and we'll get some fish!
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ANZAC Fishing
Good to see Soupy getting some fish.
I have just read some of the posts and would like to point out to potential do gooders that serving in the Navy may require long periods at sea without break and this activity may have occurred on a Sunday afternoon. Who would begrudge anyone an afternoon off for a fish? These activities prove very good as a distraction from what can be a tedioustime after weeks at sea. I just feel sorry for Soupster, the poor fellow is only serving on ANZACs and not real Warships (TIC), ........and he used to be a Gunbuster!
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Good on 'em
From my experience with Armed Forces meals - a nice fresh fillet would be welcome. And they are welcome to a few bucks of my taxes as they will make better use of them than those parasites in Canberra.
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armed with!
The Anzac's armed with
* 5 inch Mk45 Mod 2 automatic rapid fire gun,
* Mk 41 vertical launch system with Sea Sparrow anti-air missile,
* Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles,
* 2 x Mk32 Mod 5 triple mounted torpedo tubes,
* 4 x 50 calibre (12.7mm) machine guns
*ohhh and some rod & reel combo's....hehehe
The Anzac is the only Australian warship to see action since Korea i think, the first Gulf war saw this ship shoot at the Taliban!
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ANZAC
MMmmmmmm, well Vietnam at least
But Ryan, you miss the point, they are such little ships fitted with only one gas turbine and a diesel.
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yeh!
Yeh a small warship Willy compared to the US buggers, Soupy picked the smaller one so the CO can manouver around whilst fighting fish....hehehe...J/K!
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ANZACs
Giddy Up! ANZACs get towed around by Marlins and Macs
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Update!
Just got a phone call from Soupy just then and the ship has docked and the navy boys are loose on the town. They have 6 days off and some guys have started their big benders with Soupy having a big
atm. They will be at sea for another 3 months and then home.
Re the pics, Soupy was told by the captain he could have 1 hour to fish only. The captain then came down and Soupy pointed out the morale of the crew how it lifted so the Captain said give them another hour!
A small perk, since then its been all work....16 hours perday/7 days a week....many more months to go!
He's looking forward to coming home!
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good on em.. I would rather
good on em.. I would rather my tax dollars go to a bit of a leisure break for working people and not bludgers.