[simond11]

Hi all
On the news today they said they found the body of that Irish guy who went after a ball into the surf at Coogee beach a week ago and disappeared. It seems they found his REMAINS at Gordon's Bay, Clovelly. Great! that's where I live and put in my kayak to fish around Clovely/Coogee. Would not have liked to have bumped into him...or what was left of him. Poor guy.
I remember years ago I went out with the shark meshers off Sydney and when pulling in the nets they found a rock fisherman in them. He had waders on and all. Hadn't been in the water for long, but still not a pretty sight.
Guess we all have to be prepared to see the best and worst on the water.
Cheers

Simon
Prowler 15

 

[YakAtak]

Not too much of that goes on it the waters around my place mate.

 

[spooled1]

No good mate! Poor Bugger!

[Off topic] The bommy out near your place really turned it on. I used to fish the Southern rock wash and got heaps of fish. Is that a marine zone now?

Great spot but watch out for rock spiders.

 

[simond11]

Er..yes..a few of those. The area within Gordon's bay is not a marine sanctuary, inasmuch as you can still fish there with rod and reel. Can't collect octopus, urchins etc, etc, and you certainly can't catch or spear gropers (like Bluey). Good clear water with plenty of fish and infact while launching my kayak I was one day surrounded by a big pod of dolphins within the bay.
Cheers

Simon
prowler 15

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

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[Dodge]

My wife and I got the wind up some years ago in similar circumstances.

A bloke had gone in off Tweed Heads and the body was expected to surface to the north somewhere, and it became a bit of a joke who would land the poor feller when he floated

About 3 days later we were fishing Jumpin Pin along the Kalinga bank in a heavy current which was a likely spot for him to arrive and I snagged on something very heavy and sort of soft to the touch on the line, so was confident we had him in tow.

Had it all planned what to do when he surfaced, the line was singing under the strain and 20 minutes later I landed a heavy sodden beach towel

The deceased come ashore a couple of days later on the beach near the Pin without any help from me or anyone else :lol:

 

[Phoenix]

Eeeeeuuuuuuuwwwwww!

 

[Davey G]

An Irish Bloke chasing a ball??

Sounds like the start of a bad joke. And I guess it was, for him... Yuk.

 

[Mallard Duck]

A guy up the road from me had his boat requisitioned by the cops at the boat ramp one saurday morning and had to take the cop under one of the bridges on the Georges river because they had a jumper of the bridge. They (mate and cop) get to the body and the cop tried to get him to help pull the body out of the water and into the boat!! This didn't happen. Anyway they waited with the body in the water until the water police started at 9am!!

Not the start that you want to a fishing trip. Still i suppose that is another advantage of owning a yak and not a stink boat!!

 

[Daveyak]

Had it all planned what to do when he surfaced, the line was singing under the strain and 20 minutes later I landed a heavy sodden beach towel

Hey Richo, if it had been what you suspected, would you have put it on your PB list? 8)

 

[Dodge]

Hey Richo, if it had been what you suspected, would you have put it on your PB list? 8)

:lol: :lol: probably Dave, but out of respect I wouldn't have measured him to the fork