the missus wanted a go on my soft plastics rod so i gave her a go
first cast , she threw it in the drink.
Noooooooooo

LOL grayzee!

Many years ago, coming in between surf and a reef at Jurien - I turned to my twin brother and said "at least the motor hasn't conked out again (it had a couple of times earlier) - you guessed it - it did - we were washed onto the reef :(.

of crabbing, me getting sandwiches ready, take seasick pill, Bob outside putting crab nets etc into the boat, get down to the Club, put boat into the water, launch boat, then off we went, I looked into the boat and said where are the crab pot floats, back to the Club, he gets out off home to get the floats,lucky we only live 9klms away, he hasn't lived that one down for awhile.

Another time 4 cray pots in the boat, off we go get to our spot to put cray pots in, duuh where are the floats Bob? normally he gets everything ready on land, baits them as well, so we just have to chuck them into his spot.

 Another time head done to the club to go squidding, launch boat, Oh duuh Bob where is the key to start motor? Back home.

Forgot to put the bung in on my old runabout.
Stood there watching in slowly sink at the ramp!
When the eskie started floating i realized what had happened and i jumped in fully clothed at 5am in the morning and put the bung in. We draged it back up the ramp and drained the water out. Was a cold morning too. I always check five times now LOL

I should have gone fishing the day I met her.....

roflmao :)

Years ago,moved from Merredin up to Broome. Always been keen on fishing so bought a crappyola tinnie for fivehungie witha 6hp on the back. Got some handlines/tackle. Launched at the entrance point with 3 other country mates. Headed out ,noticed boat was leaking a bit of water, but thats ok be could deal with that. We stopped cracked a beer and dropped down our lines, but with all the sinkers we had on the boat we could not get our bait to touch the bottom. Then when we went to go back to the ramp, our boat could not push against the tide running out of Roebuck bay. We waved another boat down, and he towed us back to the ramp. When we got there he said your mad fishing today, as its king tides! Oh king tides, what the hell does that mean?? On the way back home we bought a tide chart, and from then on things have only got better.

Mate and I went to Fish creek down south for a weekend for the first time.We had heard the track in was as rough as guts so in a moment of wisdom??we put the eggs in with the sugar so if we bashed them about having something all round would stop them breaking.WRONG!!!
Have you ever had a cup of coffee with bits of cooked egg floating around in it.

Have had anchor thrown over minus rope a couple of times by the decky of the day---not me.
Been spooled on a mates rod and reel only to find he doesn't tie the line on to the spool so goodbye to a couple of hundred metres of line and a real good fish

went out in my 14 foot dinghy on a 4 m swell and soon found myself racing up the face of a monster wave that was feathering at the top. Landed with a crash on the other side only to be confronted by another wave same size. I obviously survived , but seriously,NEVER again cheers Pete

tried to get past the reef north of little island in a 3m swell - came facing a massive bomber set - crashed over one and out ran the second just

took the missus for a romantic weekend at busselton beach resort had a room overlooking the flat ocean.....then realised i forgot to bring the boat!!

the awful trip to the Vernon Islands off Darwin was proceeded by a couple of days on the squirt at the Katherine show followed by a late run from Katherine to the Hotel Darwin's Parachute Club in a Skyline with 2 cartons of beer at flat to the floor in the dark - Barneyboy and Damo could testify just how bloody stupid an act that was - buffalo and and all the other livestock on the road must have been on on smoko. The water is not the only place your stupidity will kill you.

stupidest ive done fishing wise would be a heavy night on the grog getting home from northbridge at 3 to find my mate waiting for me to go snapper fishing in the sound off the rocks lets go i said to the better half both drunk as skunks we get in the car lets just say darlene wont come snapper fishing again and i wont spend a night in northbridge before fishing

in all my travels I've never woken up with a sore arse and $5 dollars in my hand.....ha ha
but
new boat and all geared up to fish and no key at ramp......
definitly most stupid thing I have done though is live in Katherine in the NT.......

Made the big, long awaited and carefully planned trip to Steep Point from Perth, only to find when my brother and I arrived that we had forgotten to pack the adpator for the gas bottle, so could not get gas to the stove. We tried bodgying up a connection with gaffer tape and wire, but most of the gas leaked out. We had to eat cold tinned food (the "emergency supplies" in case we didn't catch any fish) for the whole week. On the same trip, the seams on the galv water tank in my Hilux cracked on the drive in. The 80L tank was mounted across the back of the cab inside the tray and the water continously seeped into the matress I slept on in the back. I ended up laying garbage bags on top pf the matress to stop getting wet at night. Reminded me of being a 2 year old and sleeping on the plastic matress protector in my cot!!

On the water, I fished the north end of a five fathom bank in 4-5m swell. It was an absolutely windless day and parts of the bank were lumping up and breaking. Where we were was fine for the firts hour or so, but I kept a close eye on the water. Then I saw a swell coming that I was not comfortable with. Luckily we were not anchored, so my deckie dragged the sea anchor in quickly, I fired up the motor and gunned it seawards, and we launched over the top of a what became a huge wave that was just beginning to break. And then a second, and a third. If I hadn't been alert, we might have been swamped or overturned. Be careful on five fathom bank on a big swell!!!!

Lastly, it didn't happen to me but to a guy I knew in school. Years ago he was at Coral Bay and left his 4.5m ally dinghy on the beach at the bay overnight, everynight. One morning, he noticed somebody had stolen one of his fuel tanks. He went fishing anyway, out through South Passage and headed north. After fishing outside the reef for a few hours, he discovered that he did not have enough fuel to get back to South Passage again, and decided to surf the boat across the reef to get home. He made it - luckily!

at the back of rotto too get back a tagged dhu that had dropped off the release weight.I made it to the fish in record time the swim back against the tide not so easy.An hour later did it all again this time the tide was a little slacker.The other one was when i jumped in the drink to get back the sea anchor that had sunk about 8/10 meters down by the time i got too it only just made it back too the top before i had to take a breath only got a little bit of water down so all was good.The one that i remember for the gold was when Kathy Ryan from exmouth fished an entire day of gamex with a tag in her back before going to the hospital to have it cut out then got everything ready for the next days fishing.Guttsy effort in my book.

My son went out on a mates boat chasing dhuies when he was about 14-15.He got a nice fish of around 25-30lb going from the size they gave me.Anyhow Jeff has gilled and gutted the fish and shoved it into a wet hessian spud sack and put it down the back of the boat.
They moved to a couple of other spots without success when Jeff decided to give the bag another soaking.He dangled the bag over the side of the boat to dunk it in the water as he did this the bottom of the bag split and away went the dhuie.The mate heard the splash then another and looked in to the water to see a silver thing and a white thing chasing it down into the depths only for the white thing to give up after about 30 feet.

When they got home the mate was still pissing himself about it and Jeff was still spewing as it would have been his biggest to that date.Still have a laugh when I think about it.