Opened my TI account
Submitted by Silver Fox on Wed, 2021-01-13 10:58
First day having some fun on Thursday Island resulted in this bad boy!. Was having a flick on the ferry jetty and had myself a braid birds nest. Whilst I was doing the detangle my lure went to the bottom and this is the result..... Not quite what I was looking for but having a go none the less. No fish to report of so far.
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My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
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Paul N
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epic catch
Epic catch . Those redheads are deadly on anything . Lol
still trying
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That's a rare catch try
That's a rare catch try catching another one of them it would take a while.
rather be fishing
Faulkner Family
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I have heard of a blue
I have heard of a blue bottle before but never a brown bottle jetty dweller. At least your cleaning up the bottom of the ocean while your there.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
sunshine
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That is a bloody OLD bottle
Rounded bottom, would like to see it cleaned up but I reckon close to a century old
Silver Fox
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Returned to sender.
Straight back to Davy Jones locker. Will try again tomorrow, a full one would have gone down a treat!.
My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
sunshine
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Pity, could date back to the 1800’s
Often called "ballast" bottles and well over a 100 years old, I used to search for old glassware and bottles at the "long jetty" location off Fremantle in my diving days
Alan James
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Thanks for the info Sunshine
This site can be a wealth of knowledge at times. When I saw the bottle I wondered what its original use was. I had never heard of a ballast bottle.
sea-kem
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Gee VB's been around that
Gee VB's been around that long?
Love the West!
sunshine
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Andy you have been drinking too much
If VB bottles have round bottoms ......
sea-kem
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Ha ha more about my disgust
Ha ha more about my disgust for VB Gordon, but yeah I can see it's bloody old. Funnily enough house next door got knocked down recently 50's era and a couple of old bottles showed up in the sand.
Love the West!