[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.

Red.

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[Davey G]

eeeooowccch... that was close!. was the yabbie not hungry, or did he just find nothing appetising up there? :shock: :wink:

touch wood, so far no major stuff ups, but I did leave my paddle at home once. after unloading all my gear and getting ready to launch I thought 'hang on a minute" and had to re-load the car, yak back on roofracks, drive home and start again

 

[Davey G]

another argument for a hobie.

bwhahahahaaaa. you're soooo funny :roll: :wink:

mutter mutter bloody hobie owners....smartarses...mutter mutter :wink:

 

[paffoh]

You KNOW you're in trouble when...
( Another true one, this time from Saturdays attempt )

...when you wait all day for the wind to die down and finish all your household chores just in time for the weather to finally break so you can get out, you drive to the spot and unload on the waters edge with the sun shining and get ready to launch, only thing left to do is put some lures on the rods so immediate trolling can commence...

'Hmmm why wont this snap undo, ill just put a Stumpjumper on and away we go...HOLY F&$%^*$*$ *!' i said as the treble from the lure went straight through my finger 3/4's of the way round with the barb firmly entrenched 1/2cm under my skin, whilst telling the missus to calm down and stop screaming i slowed the blood, sat down and after 2 minutes with some pliers i got it out.... then started blacking out

After 1/2 hr of trying to get some colour back in my cheeks we packed up the Yak, loaded it on the car and went home without even getting my big toe wet...

Felt like a goose...

 

[DGax65]

How about this....
You have just made it out through a couple of chest high waves and just as you clear the last in the set you hear a snap and one of your rudder pedals goes to the forward stop. You turn back and see that one of the cables has broken and now your rudder is jammed hard starboard. :x You glance up and see the next wave about 15 meters away and building. The problem is that you are in a right turn due to the jammed rudder and you're about to take this wave to your left shoulder :shock: After a dozen frantic strokes on the starboard side you take the hit on the port bow and go through the wave. You're now parallel to the beach with another big one forming up. You put the hammer down and start a sprint back to the beach. Unfortunately, the rudder brings the bow around too far and you're still too deep to bail out. You feel the stern start to lift and you surge forward. You start cutting across the face of the wave and for one brief, glorious instant you think you can ride it in like Eddie Aikau. But you're not riding a surfboard; you're on a friggen X-Factor that is loaded with a ton o' crap. Brace; lean.....SPLASH; swim. At least the yak stays upright. Drag it in and thank your lucky stars that there were no yakkers on the beach to see your performance. 8)

 

[DogFish]

You KNOW you're in trouble when...

You manage a flawless surf landing in front of all the bikini babes on the beach, but when you jump out you find yourself face first in the sand because your cramped legs won't work, and... you know there's a big mofo of a shore break dumper building up right behind you. :!:

 

[Russ]

LOL :shock: Ya know your in trouble when,

You are new to a sport and you read a bloody thread like this I'm gonna die

fishing Russ

 

[troppo]

I was gunna say, You know you are in trouble when ya paddle for 20 minutes, stop for a snack and realise ya yoghurt muesli bars are back in the car, but after reading everyone else's posts, I don't think mine is worth mentioning so I won't.

 

[Dodge]

The maiden trip of the swing with Gilbo/headman having first ride on my espri was the trouble.

Launching from Currumbin Creek we were quickly into the surf zone on a sand bank with me leading, over a couple of breaking waves and loving the experience, looked back to see how Gilbo was faring, and turning around was looking at a green wall which was curling; an element of tension before I was plucked from the swing like a grape off a bunch.

This was not the trouble, but what followed.

A guffawing Gilbo paddling in and through waves collecting shoes, drink bottle and towel etc while periodically checking as to my drowning status.

The problems have all been since the event as his story now lacks any semblance of reality....the lying bastard :roll:

 

[hairymick]

Slightly different note, but certainly in trouble when I just happend to mention - Mozambique and kayak fishing competition in the same sentence. didn't help when I mentioned that a few AKFFers were going.

Have you noticed the steely glint they get in the eye and how the smile never leaves their face as they manage to say something like, "Thats allright dear. You go over to Mozambiwue and have a wonderful time." without their lips even moving.

i don't think I'm in trouble i know it.

 

[Jesse_Ape]

you know your in trouble......

When you having an AKFF fishing comp in the ocean and there is more than 5m of vis cause jesse would win with his straight hook speargun shennagins . But according to your rules you have to catch you fish from your yak so maybey not as i suck at fishing with curvy hooks. Does it count if i tow my kayak behind me and spearfish?

hmmm

You know your in trouble when....
You get your spear stuck in a cave that is 8m deep and the spear is 5m back in the cave with a hungry angry wobbie cause you just shot straight through a 40cm bream... Bye bye bream hello wobbie trying to eat my flipper.

Well I don't have any kayak ones cause well i havn't had any bad experiences in one yet. Plenty more spearing one but

 

[Zed]

...you're a couple miles off and you feel increasingly unstable. Pop a hatch and find you've been slowly taking on water and...the damn bilge pump isn't there.

...your friend rolls and then you laugh.

...you're a few miles from your take-out, and you just got stuck in the hand by a scorpionfish.

These are examples of "YKYFW..."
I have not experienced them personally. Well, #2, but how could I not?

Z

edit:
hairymick, um, I got the same reaction from my boss about taking time off in May to go to Mozambique.
"Where?"
"Why?"
"Now, where?"
"Why again?"
"You know that's in Africa?"

I'm the one booking it; I better know where it is! Just give me the time off...Sir.
:lol:

 

[PoddyMullet]

you know you're in trouble when.....

You heave and push a tandem sik to the top of a steep riverbank, and as ya get to the crest yourself you slip and do a belly whacker in a a cow shit. Those things are like agriculture's answser to pavlova...baked crisp on the outside but underdone and gooey in the centre :wink:

 

[JB]

you know your in trouble when....

Your reentering the beach by a surf break and you catch the wave, which turns out to the seventh wave of the seventh set, look down to see the front of the FND to see the front trying tis best not to "pigroot". But then suddenly catch and at the same time you remember you have not secured the anchor which is sitting just behind you thats now coming past your right ear......

 

[fishtales]

I was gunna say, You know you are in trouble when ya paddle for 20 minutes, stop for a snack and realise ya yoghurt muesli bars are back in the car, but after reading everyone else's posts, I don't think mine is worth mentioning so I won't.

LOL,

I am sure that it will go unread Troppo.

 

[fishtales]

You know you're in trouble when......

You are chuckling away at some of these posts while you are at work, and you're Boss pokes his head over you're shoulder and asks what you are doing. :shock:

Chris

 

[beefs]

you know your in trouble when...

you're paddling along thinking you've turned into some sort of kayaking superhuman but when you turn around and try to head back where you came from you keep paddling at the same speed as you were before except your stationary and not actually going forwards. Damn big tides and currents. Happened to me twice.

you know you're in trouble when....

you're rolling into the garage at a far speed with the yak on top of the 4wd and you're brother says (when its too late to stop) "will the yak fit under here??". Thankfully it did.

you know you're in trouble when...

you're any of the lures in my tackle box and after 6 fishing trips you've only caught your owner 2 fish in 6 trips.

you know you're in trouble when...

You're 200 metres from where you left the yak due to a low tide and having to transfer all the fishing gear to the car before portering the yak across the sand. You glance into the setting sun and notice what appears to be water between the shore and your yak. When you run back to where you left the yak its now about 40 metres out in the channel and drifting downstream in an estuary where the previous week they caught a 4m tiger shark on the next beach up and in an adjoinging estuary there's crocs. Twilight swim into neck high water anyone?

 

[andybear]

You get the feeling you may be in trouble... when you are in a very old bondwood stinkboat, with a crap unreliable outboard. You board a nice shark, and your cousin starts beating the shark to death, with an iron bar and lands a couple of good ones to the hull, and you are five k out from Adelaide.... and you just know, the waters are full of great whites.... and worse still KGW..

Cheers all Andybear

 

[troppo]

you know you're in trouble when.....

You heave and push a tandem sik to the top of a steep riverbank, and as ya get to the crest yourself you slip and do a belly whacker in a a cow shit. Those things are like agriculture's answser to pavlova...baked crisp on the outside but underdone and gooey in the centre :wink:

It was a tandem . . . which means there were observers? That could mean lots of trouble.

 

[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.

Red.

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