My Whoosh! Splash! moment

[Denada]

yesterday I almost lost my tackle box from an old fart who pretended not to see me, I was SP-ing 4 metres from where I left my tackle box and this old fart walked past and tried to walk off with it till I told him off and he asked me if it was mine, I had nothing but my rod in my hand, who da **** else would it have been **** head, had at least 40 - 60 bucks of sb hb and jig heads in it.

sorry i know it wasn't a splash moment but thought I'd bring it up, keep close eyes on your gears boys!

[AVG_Fisho]

yesterday I almost lost my tackle box from an old fart who pretended not to see me, I was SP-ing 4 metres from where I left my tackle box and this old fart walked past and tried to walk off with it till I told him off and he asked me if it was mine, I had nothing but my rod in my hand, who da f**k else would it have been d1ck head, had at least 40 - 60 bucks of sb hb and jig heads in it.

sorry i know it wasn't a splash moment but thought I'd bring it up, keep close eyes on your gears boys!

i reckon the post would be more at home in bay 13. :thumbsup:

haven't had anyone try to steal my stuff, well not that i know of, but i have seen some shady people looking at my gear, but mind you, me being a frankston teenager wearing a hoodie might look a tad shady when i walk past people on the pier looking at what gear people are using... :lol:.

[Denada]

haha, to be honest with ya every fisho I met are nice up until yesterday arvo!, the fishing community is awesome, like last friday, I caught a flatty and only realise I didn't bring a god damn container or bag to carry it, walked up to a pair of blokes in their 60s, was happy to give me a plastic bag, that saved me from throwing a 36 flatty (and another 30 later)

[FirelineFanatic]

One time I was fishing a crystal clear rainforesty type river on private property up in nothern Qld, it was a steep cliff of about 30-40m down to the water level, then a big bank of hard sandstone leading to the water, where it dropped down into very deep green water. I had dropped a line down into this deep water on a short thick boat rod and 5000 size jarvis walker reel (not an expensive combo and pretty old and beat up, but a lot of sentimental value), and rather stupidly set the road down about midway up the bank, just lying there. I walked about 10m further up the bank and rigged up a sp on my baitcaster, when my dad shouts "your rods going!". I turn around to see my rod flying at warp speed down the bank about 4m from the waters edge. I swear I have never run so fast in my life, before or since. I traveled about 10-13m in about 2seconds flat and grabbed the rod about half a meter from the edge of the deep green water and reeled in a nice 70cm salmon tailed catfish.

[Scraglor]

Seems like its mostly landbased fishos losing rods. Especially on piers. I fish almost weekly off the boat and have never dropped one over the side. Maybe we should come up with some kind of secure pier rod holder, cos I admit I have no idea how I would secure a rod on a pier

[barra mick]

Tie it on the pier ?

[Paul Foot]

Brand new Ugly Stik Balance combo now belongs to a big fat carp in the Barwon River as of two weeks ago, forgot to set the drag and left my 8 year old daughter in charge for a minute while i attended to her siblings. Can't blame her, she saw the line going but didn't know what to do, I was devastated but convinced the boss that I needed to replace it and I have also taken revenge on carp in that same spot.

[barra mick]

Bad loss of reel !!

Cheers bm

[Boonanza]

Check out this guy :lol:
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[Haygmbp]

Surely he could have moved a lil faster. Too funny