THE BOAT THAT GOT AWAY!!!!!!

heres a story that still makes me feel ill.

a year before the bonanza we made plans to go to the bonanza and for that entire year i was so excited!! so eventually the day comes when we are signing in the register. day breaks and its the start of 4 days of fishing pleasure.

day one and there was a tuna of 28kg. caught by some lucky bugger but we did alright just checking out the scene we caught the most that day 26 tuna.

day 2 was not so good weather upside down.

day3 and we just got to our planned spot and started drift baiting when my mates reel strats screaming!! 2 to 3 seconds later and my other mate right in the front of the boat reel starts running. so we think double up great!! 40 min later the lines come together so we untangle them and then i see the number plate.wow!!! its huge i gaff this beast and to our astonishment both hooks are in the mouth. well we thought the rule would be who evers reel went first its there fish. the only igfa rule it stated in our rule book was you cannot pass your rod to someone else. so we radio it through and started the celebrations our tuna weighed 39kg!!

sowe get back to find we have been disqulified due the 2 hooks in the mouth. so thats how we lost the boat a cobra cat 525 with 2x 85 mercury`s and trailer. well im sure u will be able to understand the breakfast the next morning went down hard.  but we will be back this year. our hounesty will prevaile!!!!!!!!!!!!!::H

rat hammerhead!!
 
Guys

This is my problem with these kind of things: And I believe HONESTY PAYS!

The same kinda thing happened last month when the biggest Bass was landedat MIDMAR, now the poor bloke who landed the fish, wasn't registered with some Bass authority and so forth and so forth and he wasn't this and he wasn't that, and yes the record for the BIGGEST BASS CAUGHT (not the record of the biggest bass caught BY A REGISTERED BASS ANGLER) was not recognised.

I know that there's certain criteria that needs to be followed, but what about the FISH, after all is it not the FISH that has to be the biggest?

I dunno, things like this makes me sick and that's one of the reasons why I havn't really ever taken part of any comps on formal levels, comps between friends and socials friendly's, well that's a completely diffirent thing.

GO back next time, You'll get the biggest TUNA and YOU WILL WIN, cause Honesty Pays.

Happy Hunting those LGF's

LGF
 

MickJack

Senior Member
Dilemma

In a comp, and get a strike. Do you wind in all other lines and miss the opportunity of another strike, or leave other lines out with the chance of tangling, burning off or the misfortune described above? Cos, if you find one tunny, theres bound to be a clan of them feeding together!
 
leonard

 in 2005 it was won by jacque olivier,with a beast caught 80km off shelly 56kg.

im not sure if he owned anglers world but the owner now is lance i forget his surname. he fishes for tuna a.c

cheers rat!!!
 
hey shayne

this doesnt feel right calling by ur name u got to change it to duckbill debo or even debo!!! cool pic of u dancing at the jol last week (hee hee).

rat hammerhead!!
 

Shayne

New member
Just leave my name as it is in my ID book, I like it. Debo makes me sound like a drunk hobo that lives on the beach
 
its not my fault u act like one!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just remember for the bonanza ur name will be duckbill debo otherwise u better come up with one u like and it has to have something to do with a fish!!!!!!!!
 
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