back in the day
Submitted by petermac on Mon, 2013-08-26 20:23
got a pm from a certain young bloke that is a member of fishwrecked asking for some advice on spearfishing made me start to think back to the days I was first diving with old paper sounders and no gps what we used to do was get towed behind the boat ( about 50meters back those old blue band merks used to spew out lots of oil which could make you feel crook) once we found ground we would we would dive it and then move on all up it probably wasn't the right thing to do as we took many times the limits we have today
scotto
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What an awesome story
scotto
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Last Tuesday
I went to work I drove my car and it was raining so I turned the wipers on and the radio was on too. When I got to work I unlocked my office and then had a cup of tea with one sugar altough i nearly accidentily put in 2 sugars. All this was before 6:30 am
Justin M
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Farken hell...exhausting
Farken hell...exhausting stuff!
meglodon
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Being towed behind
Being towed behind a boat in this day and age is like trawling for GWs with live bait. Not for this little black duck.
davmor
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Petermac , we did the same
Petermac , we did the same also. paper sounders and landmarks. Often we were crook but i think that was more self inflicted than oilslicks lol. Scottno glad you had a riveting morning but please don't mock the mature guys for reminising . .
EricBananaMan
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Did the same on the Kwinana
Did the same on the Kwinana side of Garden Island when I was a kid. I don't live in Perth anymore so Im not sure if its still there, but I remember a little beach with picnic tables was on the island and we used to get towed over the weed bank looking for blues and cook at said picnic spot. Not sure if the Navy allows people there any more though. Im only mid 30's so its not just a sport for the older dudes :)
EricBananaMan
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Minus the paper sounders
Minus the paper sounders though!
Andy_b
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yeh mate u can still go there
yeh mate u can still go there today, still a few crabs around at the right time of year,
Vinesh87
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Yeh we still do it that way!
Yeh we still do it that way! Even at night sometimes!!
Paul G
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Shit Jesse still gets towed
Shit Jesse still gets towed behind the boat and looks for fish,ground. Bloody nerves off steal .or short a few brain cells.
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petermac
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old paper sounders
believe it or not they worked surprising well
Dale
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We did it a bit too, used to
We did it a bit too, used to get towed out onto Mindon Reef just out from South Mole, ( I think that was what it was called) and pluck heaps of crays off it. If we had any air left, we would swim back along the mole and pick up a few more crays from there as well. Back then nobody batted an eye lid if you went in with 20 or 30 crays, just as long as they were size and not tarred or berried.
cheers
Dale
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