What's the strangest method you've used to catch a fish?
Having just finished year 12 my two mates and i decided to go up to kalbarri for a week for leavers to do some relaxing and fishing. Anyway, on our second last night we were talking to this couple who were fishing on the jetty with us, we had rods and bait, they had rods and crab pots. We weren't catching anything other thatn small bream and tarwhine, and they weren't catching anything at all, then just as we were about to leave, they pull up their crab pots. Heard the dude start shouting and laughing, so we turn around to see what's up, and there sitting in his crab pot is an absolute monster estuary cod. Clearly not the biggest they grow but for the murchison this thing was an absolute monster, probably about 1m long and about 10kg.
That was the first weird catch of the trip, but wasn't the last. The next night we went back to the jetty for a fish, didn't bring the bait or rods, instead a gidgee. My mate wanted to catch these little angel fish to bring back for his little bro's aquarium, so he makes an improvised net/bucket out of an ice-cream bucket and rope. He dropped it down with a lot of rocks in it for weight and a squid we got from the couple that were there again. After about 10 minutes he decides to pull it up and lo and behold, no angel fish, but a big f****** mud crab. We had no use for it so we gave it to the other guy in return for the bait.
So after these weird, improvised and very unorthodox methods of catching fish i was curious to know, what the strangest method you guys have ever used to catch fish???
till
Posts: 9358
Date Joined: 21/02/08
Snares for harlequin fish,
Snares for harlequin fish, they are so dense ...
hlokk
Posts: 4292
Date Joined: 04/04/08
Snared a flattie, and done a
Snared a flattie, and done a one swipe capture and iki ;)
sunshine
Posts: 2624
Date Joined: 03/03/09
Needle tied in the centre
To catch eels ..................thread on a worm, when they swallow the worm and swim off the needle turns side ways and lodges in the eels throat, was a common poachers method back in England many years ago and if caught they weren't fishing as there was no hook
On a jigging trip last August I caught a 12kg dhuie with the jig inhaled but squarely lodged across the inside of it's mouth with the assists dangling free
Also caught a close to double figure salmon down south when my hook somehow went through the eye of a rusty hook stuck in it's side fin
Sure there will be plenty of similar tails on this thread
carnarvonite
Posts: 8673
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Eel and sea snake plus big tiger
Took the missus and her riend crabbing in the boat harbour not long back.
2 net to come up had a bloody huge eel tangled in it, must have been at least 1.5 metres long and fat enough to be meshed in the side of the net. 2 Rounds on the nets later and up comes a sea snake, it certainly made them drop it back in a hurry.
On another occassion, again crabbing with the missus hauled up a tiger about 8-9 foot with its head caught in the net where it had tried to steaal the bait basket.
Big Fella
Posts: 43
Date Joined: 10/02/12
Shad in Spain
Caught Shad from the River Ebro in Catalonia, Spain with a Red Jelly Baby.
Guardy
Posts: 381
Date Joined: 09/08/12
Catching marlin & sailfish
On mooring line towed behind anchor handler/supply vessel in the Gulf of Guinea. Not me personally but have seen the photos of the bills entangled in the strands.
dodgy
Posts: 4580
Date Joined: 01/02/10
Yep. Seen a sail caught on a
Yep. Seen a sail caught on a mop head. Not good for the sail if it had of broken off.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
busted off
Posts: 23
Date Joined: 11/08/12
Bait
Needed some bait but didn't have a cast net so we use the shotgun got some small mullet
Andy_b
Posts: 633
Date Joined: 19/10/11
(No subject)
marrisy
Posts: 205
Date Joined: 08/09/11
flounder
Was cleaning a few hering at Alexander bridge one night, and a large flounder swam into the shallow water I was washing the hering in, threw the filliting knife at it, and scored a plate size fish. my mate said"If I hadn't seen it, it takes some beliving".
groper down below
Posts: 109
Date Joined: 19/11/11
chlorine bombs
chlorine bombs
Wahoo
Posts: 243
Date Joined: 11/06/07
dolphin assisted catch
dolphin flicked a pink snapper onto the shore for us at Monkey Mia/Shark Bay many years ago.
Fishin for a feed and fun.
alfred
Posts: 3097
Date Joined: 12/01/07
Trout fishing with dynamite.
Trout fishing with dynamite. You really get a bang for your buck.
brayds
Posts: 78
Date Joined: 25/08/12
my old man cuaght a redfin
my old man cuaght a redfin perch in dwellingup by flicking it onto the bank with the canoe paddle. we nearly all ended up in the drink but it was worth it
bradz
Posts: 693
Date Joined: 29/10/07
Mulloway
Taking the family for a spin a few years ago in the Swan River. Saw something splashing on the surface.
Drove over and after a bit of precision boat handling managed to pluck a 9kg mulloway of the surface...by hand.
Guessing someone had caught and released, but it didnt look so well. I tried to get it to swim off but it wasnt looking too flash.
I did then the best that I knew how. When I knew better, I did better.
Swompa
Posts: 3902
Date Joined: 14/10/12
1m long Tom in a scoop net
1m long Tom in a scoop net at Point Peron many years back, and crayfish too (only smalls though so they went back)
And almost got a dhuie with a Cray snare. One flick of the tail and the weld on the end of the snare busted and fish went bye bye.
mw87
Posts: 123
Date Joined: 20/07/11
2 weeks ago on the Canarvon
2 weeks ago on the Canarvon jetty I casted a whole mullet out chasing a shark. Within 2 mins I had something on... a Mulloway must have come to suss my bait out and a wire traced rig hanging out of it's mouth from a previous bust off tangled with my sinker! Went 92cm and my PB, without me actually hooking it... im still calling it my capture though!
randall df223
Posts: 6454
Date Joined: 08/08/11
I was talking to a chinese
I was talking to a chinese girl and a singapore chinese girl today. they were telling me that in china the locals train birds to dive in the rivers for fish. they are kept on some type of line and their throats are partially tied to stop them swallowing the catch.
they are rewarded in much the same a spaniel would be for retrieving a duck shot down in a lake.
dont know how true it is...
Fish! HARD!
Lamby
Posts: 3145
Date Joined: 04/08/09
Yep seen this happen, think
Yep seen this happen, think they use a cormorants or something?! & a ring is around the neck
pale ale
Posts: 1755
Date Joined: 02/01/10
Chinese fishing
Chinese fishing birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WzDSo94o-w
Guardy
Posts: 381
Date Joined: 09/08/12
Catching inquisitive grouper
Years ago in NZ the guys were doing saturation diving from the bell, an inquisitive grouper of about 10kgs poked its head into the bell trunking while the diver was out of the bell. The diver was returning and could see the tail sticking just outside the trunking so in a coordinated effort with the guys on the surface and the standby diver he closed the bottom door as far as possible while the standby diver inside grappled and caught the grouper. It was fresh grouper for dinner that evening. It's just a pity that when doing a sat dive everything tastes near enough the same.
alfred
Posts: 3097
Date Joined: 12/01/07
Actually I just remembered
Actually I just remembered that dynamite wasn't the most ridiculous method. I have used a bulldozer before. We filled in a pond and had a overflow spout dug. The water overflowed as the pond filled and all the fish came out with the overflow.
Shane O
Posts: 926
Date Joined: 22/01/10
fishing off the back of a FPSO
Only allowed to use lures the barb has to be removed and no bait allowed or burley, fish have to be released and brought to the deck with a net..
catchalittle
Posts: 1875
Date Joined: 04/09/08
a rock was fishing down south
a rock was fishing down south along one of the jetty's bait was running low grabbed a rock and sconned this mullet wasnt hard considering there was a school of them and hey presto fresh bait
Nathan
kurtfish
Posts: 26
Date Joined: 15/09/10
hey, i went scooping in
hey, i went scooping in busselton a few weeks ago and scooped a 70cm cobbler, which was abit of a laugh. along with a few crabs, cheers kurt