appreciation for the word 'Pingers'
Submitted by Bodie on Sun, 2009-05-17 19:45
was out on Saturday, pretty early arriving to a nice spot around 7am.
No boats in site nothing the water was dead quiet!!
next minute a boat comes boaring over our way and i said to my mate 'watch thie bloke will come right up and ping us, he was about 2kms away at the time'.
And he came right up and circled us!!! looking at the sounder, looking at us...
At the time all 3 of us were loaded up on fish so was dam hard to hide it.
So they moved aboput 40m up drift of us and drifted right over our run!!!
We were maybe 10 minutes on our location before this happened!!!
First time Ive seen this happen
Dirty!!!
wadetolley
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Same
Had the same on sat as well mate! Off scarbs..3 guys in a tinny were cruzing along the coast...then turned and headed straight for us..come within 50m and stopped, i turned and looked at them...they waved..i didnt wave and said a few words...they then pulled out there sight glass and put it in the water to have a look at the bottom...then took off. Dosnt really worry me that much, but still cant understand with all that ocean out there..why come and wreck a quiet day on the water for someone!
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Bodie
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i woulda pulled up and moved
i woulda pulled up and moved off the spot, but as it was we were already onto some fish, so didnt have the time!!
HuggyB
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At some stage
ya gonna get pinged - its inevitable and even a rubbish fisherman like myself has been pinged on more than one occassion.
But to circle you and then set up a drift ahead of you while you are fishing the area is pushing the boundaries IMO.
The Terrorist - coming to a fishing spot near you.........
Bodie
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yeah was a bit of a shock
yeah was a bit of a shock them circling, and i dont mean 50 or 100m away, only 20m off the bow!!
Paul G
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That is the way it is now
That is the way it is now dog eat dog we were out today,found two new spots not much on them but mybe next time ,the trick is to get the ground the cray guys don't have then no one gets to ping them as there is no pots on them there all yours ..
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till
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You better watch out Paul,
You better watch out Paul, those cray guys will get smart and start pinging you if they read this site!
HuggyB
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Hahahahahahaha
I've been sitting miles away from Paul and pinging him with my radar. Its easy as pie. I watch him leave and then track him, everytime he stops - I press the waypoint button on my trusty GPS twice and rename it PaulG1, PaulG2 etc. I have a bunch of spots.
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biggerfish
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the last two times I've been
the last two times I've been out ive been pinged last week they came within twenty meteres of us stopped the boat pinged me then drove off so when we had finished at that spot we drove 2 where they were about 1km away pulled up within ten meters of them almost cut there lines pinged there spot said thanks for their spot then drove off I hate PINGGERs next time follow them around all day they soon get the hint
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yep!
As discussed in my shop Bodie, they're out there & getting worse......not good mate!
Paul i hear ya, the invisible stuff for sure!
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barneyboy
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You wouldnt call em fisherman.
More like seagulls. Where is the challenge in it. The next one gets a 8oz sinker through the windscreen. I dont give a f@#k!!!!
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wombat78
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had same thing happen out
had same thing happen out the back of garden island about a month ago old bloke & his misses pretty new boat came up & sat about 20 metres away i moved he went straight to my spot then started to follow me so kept setting myself up on nothing droped & moved on he followed 3 more times then f##ked off took the hint i spose & they wonder why people get angry
7739ian
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It even happens
in Geographe Bay - i kid you not - drifting for squid and the only other boat for k's pulls up and anchors on my line of drift less than 50m downwind. Not in a good mood anyway as i had crushed a finger on the winch handle unhooking and a hangover to boot. I am very ashamed of my language - not. You have to wonder as the Bay is hardly a hot bed of good spots.
biggerfish
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They aint a fishermans
They aint a fishermans arsehole
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fishyink
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we had 2 boats anchor on top
we had 2 boats anchor on top of us in the sound when fishing for herring, so we chucked out a ray rod, first ray we hooked went straight under one of the boats and out the back, couldnt of been more perfect, took 3 out 4 of ther rigs out, saw all ther rods load up then snap they lost ther tackle, couldnt stop pissing myself laughing,that will teach them.