http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/32681/diver+frees+entangled+orca+that+had+been+crying+for+help/

An orca that had become entangled in a crayfish pot off a New Zealand beach cried for the help of nearby orcas, but is alive thanks to a local diver who plunged in with a knife and cut the mammal loose. Part of the event was videotaped, and the orca's cries can be heard in the footage.



The rescue, just a few hundred yards off Hahei Beach, was performed by Rhys Cochrane of a Cathredal Cove dive outfit. The rope attached to the crayfish pot had become twisted around the orca's tail and, in order to surface and breathe, the mammal had to lift the heavy pot off the ocean floor.

The accompanying video shows only some footage. In the 3 News video report, more footage is revealed and Cochrane explains that when he dove in he could see several other orcas nearby.

The entangled orca, Cochrane explained, became still as he approached with his kinfe. "He didn't seem to mind or maybe even knew that I was trying to help him," Cochrane said.

After being freed, the orca joined its family and the mammals disappeared into the blue-green haze

i have been posting a few pics of late and have been wondering where are all these fish you hear of in the posts people saying they bagged out or they caught heaps of this but i hardly ever see the photos! why dont you post your fish pics?? lets make this a post of all everyones latest fishing adventures pictures!

Anybody interested in joining a Dream team League?

Nothing serious....fun is the name of the game....

800085 is the league number....

GO THE EAGLES...

Just curious who prefers which bait? The pro's and cons and why. Being that they are probably the most common bait used for bottom bouncing apart from fresh caught bait. Curios with the occy fishers as to how you present your bait? Skinned chunks or a tentacle running out from a hook?

http://fishing.outdoorzy.com/four-deer-rescued-from-alaskan-waters-121411/

(Thanks for the link Whipasswaverunner)

i'm lookig to hire a boat & skipper for the Rottnest Swim on Sat 25th Feb

team of 4 swimming so boat must be 6 metres or larger

can anyone help ?

Cheers Paul - 0407194549

Got up early for my flight to Geraldton, Followed a tradies van down Karrinyup road then onto Morley drive,

At a set of lights, beeped the driver and wound down my window, he wound down his and gave me "The Look", you know the one that says "What the F### do you want".

"Mate you have a cat on your roof" I yelled.

Slowly the door opened, out he got, only to discover his pet cat had been hanging on his roof rack since Trigg.

I then gave him "That Look"  and drove off.

Man I thought I was seeing things

Last years tipping comp was a success, apart from oztips changing tipping formats mid season.

Going to be a bit time poor this season so I wont be running it.

If anyone wants to run with it that would be great. Happy to participate, just not administer the comp.

Go Pies!

Sorry if someone has done this already for dreamteam this year but thought I would continue the dreamteam fishwrecked league deal so I have made a league again this year for all of us.

If there is enough interest I can make a second one again as well.

As we all know (or should be aware if ill informed), I conquered the Fishwrecked league (nothing unexpected there) so if you would all like to witness this flogging of epic proportions once again feel free to join the league. 

The league code is: 601560

First in best dressed!

PS: No-one pick Jaeger O'meara please, you will be instantly ejected from the league for blatant ignorance.

 Happy 70th birthday herbie, hope you have a great day if they let you out of the home lol

Just had to post this cute little tug boat. Apparently for sale in NSW for $15k..

Hi All

Thought I would share a seriously funny moment that happened involving a mate (Dave aka DBP) when out fishing a couple of weeks ago. Dave was happily bottom bouncing with his overhead combo when he hooked up on a nice size shark.

Now he happened to be wearing my big brimmed hat as I'm a good bloke and didn’t want him getting sunburnt. This hat has a very long cord (chin strap) and in the process of battling to get the shark up the cord has caught on the drag adjuster. He then proceeded to wind his reel up to his chin. Well.......I could have helped him out if I was not crying with laughter.

You need to get a mental picture of a guy doing battle with a good size shark with this reel attached to his chin. Now the option to back the drag off has gone(still laughing as I write this). It is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time just wish I had been smart enough to take a photo. Now if he had looked like going over the side I would have helped him out as I did not want to lose my nice hat hahaha.

The whole trip was full of funny mistakes including me trying to drive off with the sea anchor but hey why did the decky not pull it in.........

So come on guys share some of those funny moments and give us all a good laugh or even share some serious moments we can all learn from

Cheers CCC

Cant wait for Daves Response

Anyone seen Griffin's mad dunk from the other night?

H U G E !

Hi crew, i had an old compressor tank and finaly worked out what to use it for.

The tank.

I cut of the all the exrta bits and reused the skid's for the feet of the kiln.

Then i got the gas burner and a large camp oven ( pot )

I worked out how to fit these to the tank and started cutting the tank open

A few finishing touches to the door and a coat of high temp paint .

I intend to use this kiln for large melt's of scrap lead to be turned into ingot's.

It will run of a 9kg gas bottle.

I also have an extraction fan to fit to the flu to remove fumes .

It will be used outside as well for ventilation . ( I fully understand the dangers of working with lead )

Cheers Grant .

Thought some of you might get a laugh out of this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr1pFnJj6H0

Dan

Hey guys, supercoach started today so Im starting up a league for anyone whos interested on the site. Anyone can join as long as your going to stay with it throughout the year as there is nothing more annoying than having teams in the league with half a side and no captain etc.

http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/

Here is the league code..

600806

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD LUCK!! 

We are going to have to move to geraldton very soon, and are in the process of trying to find a rental house. Unfortunately I think we're going to have to pick up a house without actually seeing it first.

 Anyone got any words of wisdom regarding good/bad suburbs to live in and any other pointers I should be worried about. My only tool at the moment is google maps and street view. Drummond cove looks good to me I guess, I heard there might be somewhere to throw in a boat there? 

So i got drunk... correction stayed drunk from previous days and at 1am decided would be a good idea to book an os holiday.

Does this happen to anyone else or am i mental?

Oh well week in Patong getting some ink done before gamex and taking on a new job.... how can this possibly go wrong?

hey just wondering if anyone knows a cheap place to get car windows tinted? got a 100 series cruiser and got quoted $500 by tint a car which seemed pretty steep to me.

cheers

hey guys this is a bit off topic but has a goal in mind that has to do with fishing :)

ive decided to follow the money and head to the mining sector, small problem though doesnt seem as though its as easy as the press and papers make it out to be.

so in saying that iam asking for a bit of help, advice or a gifted job :) in any sector. i have no problems digging a hole or drivin a machine ive worked farms, drivin trucks HR, operated loaders got a polly welders licence, first aid, manual handling and ive even done a stint as a baker 8 years.  

i currently work for the joondalup council as a team leader in mowing department and the coin just isnt cutting it. so if anyone has any ideas or info they can pass on it would be received with the greatest appreciation.

cheers and beers lads

Thiess and BESIX SA to develop port in Onslow for Wheatstone project

30th January 2012

The site of the new port being built for Chevron's LNG Wheatstone project near Onslow. Picture: Ben Crabtree

Future site of the material offloading wharf as part of Chevron's Wheatstone project. Photo: Ben Crabtree.

Thiess and Belgian company BESIX SA will design and develop a breakwater and materials offloading facility as part of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project (LNG).

The contract is expected to create more than 300 jobs.

The majority of the new work will be based in Onslow - with at least 80 per cent of the contracted work taking place in Australia, Leighton said today.

``This partnership creates a new specialist marine capability to support the booming LNG sector and continues our involvement in the industry,'' said Thiess managing director Bruce Munro.

Work on the project is due to start this year.

Thiess is currently completing two contracts for Chevron on the Gorgon LNG Project at Barrow Island offshore from northern WA.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/thiess-and-besix-sa-to-develop-port-in-onslow-for-wheatstone-project/story-e6frg2s3-1226257411668

Just a few pics of the last couple of trips out. We headed out the Saturday before Aus day on awesome conditions, checking the pots first to to find 3 crays one of them a cracker that had been eaten by an occy ( always the big one damn it). Beaing so good we headed out into some deeper water but the Dhuies weren't playing the game but thankfully the Baldies were. The young fella got his first ever hooked in the nose, he was pretty wrapped as it was his first big fish.

Nice 12kg Bronzie to finish off the day

The Sargeant Baker had to be kept with the insistence of the young fella as he caught it

The Breaksea was a beauty at 460mm.

Went out again twice over the Aus day weekend a long day Friday for one bloody Baldie but Sat provided the goods with this 8kg Pinkie

Still no Dhuies and we hunted everywhere in the 20's to the 40's using fresh Wrasse and squid .Not to say they're not around as other guys out were getting them I'm just having one of those crappy droughts. Only one way to cure that is to keep heading out ;)

Goin' orf.

Go Raffa.

Hi All

I've been playing with the new sounder(Simrad NSS12) trying to fine tune it and thought I would share some screen shots.

Wanbro sound

I'm sure you can work out where this one was. Found some good schools shame the snapper ban was on.

Bridge pylons. From memory this was on the Murray River...possibly the ravenswood bridge?

Rock bar in a local creek. Check out the top right split

Took DBP(Dave) out and came across this

Cheers

CCC

Hi Guys

Have some video footage that I would like to post on fishwrecked. I'm having trouble when trying to up load to Photo Bucket. When I write up post I use Photo Bucket for all my photos no dramas, but when try to upload a video I cant see them in "my pictures". They are there when viewing from the  computer but not through Photo Bucket.

Any ideas how I can upload these videos??

Cheers

CCC

 Hi fellas,

hi ,just received a notice from city of wanneroo that a complaint has been made about me parking my boat on the front lawn.( i think the lady across the road).and i have to move my boat .

any suggestions on were i can store a 6.8m ali boat and how much it would cost, i live in landsdale area.

thanks lee

i notice that a lot of blokes on here offer themselves as a deckie or people offer a spare spot on a boat but they all say normal deckie rules apply. being that iam interested in taking up an offfer one of these days just wondering what these certain rules are and what is the normal split for fuel and so on.

thanks in advance hope to catch a fish with some of you blokes one day

whilst retrieving my boat on friday 27.01.12 at the woodman ramp i also retrieved a number plate submerged in the water.

if you lost one on that day please PM me for collection.

PG

My boat has a manual tilt for the motor..... Just wondering if it would be very hard to put an electric system on it? Also is it expensive and where would I get one from?