Metro Giant Herring :D
I found them again! The ski finally got serviced and fixed, after a couple months out of service I was finally able to get her back on the water. By the time I got home from picking it up in Wangara, it was nearing 5 o'clock, which would leave me an hour of light before I would have to switch on the newly installed nav lights, and head back to the ramp.
The plan was to head out and have a quick session on tailor on stickbaits and after 5 mins from leaving the ramp me brother and I were getting stuck straight into them. We seemed to spook them after nit to long so I putted 50m from where we were and cast again. After skipping the little dual adagio only a couple meters something huge exploded out of the water but missed the hooks and all the way back to the ski the lure was followed by some big boils and tail swirls! I remember yelling at Cody to cast in that direction and as soon as his lure hit the water mine followed suit only a couple meters behind. Crank crank bang bang double hookup on exploding giant herring! It was a dead give away once the fish started cartwheeling meters into the air, and both fish spitting the lures shortly after.
In the next 5 mins I manage to lose 6, my brother around the same but he also managed to land two beauties! The one we measured was 62cm, joy!
Now comes the interesting part of the story! With the first fish Cody managed to finally land, as he was taking the barbs out, the fish shook and one of the hooks on the front treble went into his thumb past the barb! I got the fish unhooked and said to him we either try get it out at home or we go to the hospital. He then just started pulling on it, while I was dry reaching at the front of the ski. He got it out, and also some stringy stuff from inside his finger, which I told him to just push back in the hole it came through!
He proceeded to fish on and hooked and landed another one, lucky bastard. This time, the hook got stuck in my thumb! I couldn't even wiggle it let alone try pull it out. I got the trusty $10 bcf multi tool out to cut the treble away from the lure but that failed miserably, with the multi tool now stuck to the lure also! Turned out to be quite a disaster.
After a strong bourbon and coke and a couple replays of a youtube hook removal tutorial video at home it came straight out.
The whole lot was filmed, so I'll be adding a video in a couple weeks once I'm home from work.
From now on, my trebles will be changed to singles where possible, the front treble removed on all lures and BARBS CRUSHED!
What a story eh?!
Goatlobster
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bahahaha
if only fellow fw readers knew the sound of you dry reaching out on the water hahaha
old salt
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ouch look forward to the cry
ouch look forward to the cry reaching vid!!!
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and
Fillet and release when applicable
tim-o
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Ahh the awkwardness of
Ahh the awkwardness of fishing off a ski but the greatness of getting into some metro GH, got ne pics of the hezzas? Crush the barbs but dont take off the center hooks, I do the same for tailor coz the only hit the back of the lure but after missing a mack on a popper hittin it sideways several times, Im putn the center hooks back on.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
beau
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Nah just have video of them
Nah just have video of them
Righteo
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in the few months ive been on
in the few months ive been on this site this is one of the best posts.
champion!
Here we go again.
beau
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Thanks righteo! Appreciate it
Thanks righteo!
Appreciate it
Righteo
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dont worry mate, last time i
dont worry mate, last time i did it had a chick with me, was tying rigs in the backyard and slipped, she simply laughed at me, was a long shank hook in the tip of the finger past the barb down to where the hook straightens, went to the local doc to get it cut out and because ide been drinking the night before, had nothing to eat all morning when the doc started cutting into my finger i almost passed out (excuses). had to drink some water and eat a few lollys, mate i went white as a ghost.
looked like a total legend.
Here we go again.
Rob H
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here Beau
this might make you feel better
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carnarvonite
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Same size
Had a decky get an identical hook in his left hand between the thunb and forefinger, the hooh followed the curve of his finger and only the eye was visible. It happened off the Abrolos just after we had finished setting out the gear for the night and meant a 6 hour cruise in to Gero , drop him off, cruise back out and pick the gear up then back to Gero as planned. When put with those options he decided to take a few panadiene fortes, a few cans and wait it out.
They had to slice in to where they thought the barb was to cut it off before pulling the hook back out.
Rob, was Paul trying to put gear in the water too fast or when you got a big livey come aboard?
Rob H
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Na I never worked with Paul
Na I never worked with Paul but he is a good mate. This was on our vessel.
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TheJettyRat
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I had a hook pulled at Gero
I had a hook pulled at Gero hostpital laast year, got it stuck in the thumb so I was giving the thumbs up tp the ppl in the w8ing room.
meglodon
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holly crapola
look at the state of those hooks first thing i'ld get would be a tetanus shot
Rob H
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heres the other hand
heres the other hand, he was flown to Perth but it was 3 days before they removed the hooks
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bitten
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That's awesome I worked with
That's awesome I worked with a guy who caught a tuna on a bit of rope when he tried to hoik it over the side the hook popped out and went in just under his eye and lodged firmly into his cheek bone we were 12 hours from land he didn't sleep much that night was a good laugh for us though
Batty
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WTFFFFFFFF
Rob H WTF are those massive rusty old hooks doing in both of your mates hand?
How did it happen?
Dry reaching nearly LOL
Lifes a game but fishing is serious !!!
bulltrain
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haha
haha didnt think you would post that story, diged
jono.s
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Dam thats looks nasty
Dam thats looks nasty
Vander72
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thats a nice looking sebile stick shad stuck in ya thumb
bloody sharp hooks on em too .. wouldnt have tickled thats for sure.......
beau
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Rob H that is disgusting, I
Rob H that is disgusting, I can not even imagine the pain he was in, how did the get it out the end?
Vander the lure is a Dual Adagio, awesome for smaller tailor, herring, and skippy if you're patient enough to let it sink, oh and apparantely for giant herring too!
Vander72
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sorry .... very similar looking lures then
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dkonig82
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Yeah the dude with them in
Yeah the dude with them in both hands definitely wins (or loses).
Keen to hear the story of how he got both hands done?!
Barbless singles all the way :-)
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Adam Gallash
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lol
Lol Rob, looks like he was auditioning for Saw 8 or something. Good job that one.
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barlow
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entertaining thread.nothing
entertaining thread.nothing quite like hooking up humans
Rob H
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If youve seen Perfect storm
If youve seen Perfect Storm it happened pretty much the same except one of my deckies was quick enough to grab his legs to stop him going over the back until we could reverse 90 tonnes of boat and take the weight off.
Cut the wire traces off with the disc grinder and into port (12 hours). Flew him to Perth but they waited 3 days to remove them.
Unfortunately there was a tangle in the snoods as we were setting but instead of grabbing the knife and just chopping the offenders off somehow his hands got in there and it was all downhill from there.
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bitten
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f that :)didnt happen on an
f that :)
didnt happen on an offshore ship then
carnarvonite
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Shark boat
Happened on a shark boat fishing up north doing the same thing I did for the odd year or two.
Rob H
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na
it didnt-can you imagine writing up the Incident Report for that while contracted to Woodside!
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carnarvonite
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Two others
Had another two happen, decky grabbed the trace leader and tried to flick a 1.5 metre sandbar whaler across the deck , it latched on to his knee resulting in 8 hour drive in to Hedland to get him stitched up [took vid of doctor doing it] then steam back out. All up about 80 stitches.
The other was mate had another sandbar rub against the inside of his right leg resulting in the skin getting ripped off from his ankle bone right up to the bottom of his calf muscle , a patch of about 7 x 4 inches , all the way through to the meat . Lovely sight, was 2 weeks before we got in, doctor said it needed a skin graft but there was no way he was going to do that, took months to heal properly.
Rob H
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we were pretty lucky on that score
6 years of Southern Ocean winter longlining and the hooks were the worst for us, other than the usual drug related dramas and equipment damage from wild weather, bailing crew out of the slammer etc
But other friends had much worse.
-finger pulled off by a yellowfin on a run (towards Leeuwin ironically)
-suicide (gun) on board 24 hrs from Freo
-attempted suicide
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.