Heard on the grape vine that one particular WA "Fishing Identity” vented his spleen on their website forum about how bad the BIA Boat Show was…..bad mouth a few crew from what I understand….alas the organisers (BIA) heard about this and has since suggested that Industry suppliers should reconsider their sponsorship/support of this outfit…..”if you support them, you are not supporting BIA”…..
I recon the Boston whaler might be about the be REPRO….
I’m sure they can shoot the next DVD from a tinnie

Interesting.. I read on fishing wa that R*** was quite happy with the show and thought it was good.. Unless it was his fishing buddy who has a known mouth for trouble?

Thats what I thought Ryan. I read your comments as being full of praise for the show and thought myself that it was setup brilliantly. The only drawback I saw was the price of admission for a family group. But for an individual, $14 is not overly expensive in the scheme of anything and you probably shouldn't be going if its of concern. But for those people that can't afford it then there is always the Hillaries show, which has less boats, but is free and has a lot of similar features. I thought the Hillaries show was excellent and was almost as good, even thou there were no tackle store displays, which is probably a good thing for my hip pocket.

I take it if it wasn't you saying 'dont bother' then it may have been another fishing wa identity? or is there no truth to this rumour?

Cheers for clearing that up Ryan.

Love going to the shows myself to see what's new out and about and to continue the dream of owning a nice 24 foot fibre walkaround.. Something not too dissimilar that you manage to cruise around in everynow and then :)

Be interested to see what the east coast has to offer which is different from what we've got.

Not after Harry's little outburst :)

All good Ryan. Best let sleeping dogs lie and thats the end of the issue. I know what you mean about the Mandurah show as it's a long way to drive to check out something I can't afford, even thou the interest is there. Cheers for clearing up the situation and letting us know what the deal was.

Certainly look foward to another show, can't get enough of them in my opinion and going to look through showroom floors just isn't an option yet. :(

Adam

dont know anything about this conflict of interest.
BUT i can say as a avid fisher learner its gunna make for a better show next year .maybee its got somthn to do with mars .
let it lie !!!!!!
we must have an oppinion
an keep havn one . or we are all boreing twits

Glad it was all a rumour....

Pity we dont have a "Fishing Expo" like NSW and Qld do....Boat show was great, other than they had no Jim Beam at the bar...but it was a boat show...

sorry adam.

Yeh thats fair enough Mitch.. Everyone's entitled to their opinion and they are more than welcome to express it here.. I have a fair bit of respect for Ryan as a fisho and it seems he has done the right thing by trying to clear the air a little and protecting his own interests.. Which he is certainly entitled to do. What I hope doesn't happen is that this turns into an attack thread or something similar. In the interest of keeping it civil, which certainly doesn't mean you can't say what you want, just to ensure that this doesn't turn into a us vs fwa forum as whilst we may be seen as a competitor, its about fishing not sledging.

I thank you for informing us regardless salmo, in no way should you feel sorry for what you have said as it was a rumour and now it has been resolved through peaceful/diplomatic measures rather than the innuendo continuing into an all out fwa attack.

Was in coral bay 2 weeks ago and was speakin to some dudes re a certain fishing presenter and his dummie spits .Was dam funnie the presenter was asleep in boat .Trawling for game fish ,not much was happing so the crew decided to play a trick on the all knowing guru .A bucket was attached to line and sent out ,presenter was woken up ,rushed to the rod ,now this guru not only played the bucket also was calling what sorta fish it was half the ocean species ,that way one may be right after a while the bucket was landed .The presenter spat the dummie tossed rod down swore ,well you would after looking like a goose .,in frount of professional fishos .

Now that is damn right hilarious! Any truth to this one Ryan?

So the story goes ,wouders if the name Mahi Mahi rings any bells re the hard fighting bucket fish.

I deckied on a charter boat years ago around and out from Magnetic Island Qld. We had a group of 5 Yanks from Florida, on a 3 day trip....well the action was some what quiet...with one mouthy bloke bitching the whole time about the fact there was no Blues (or stripes for that matter)and they should have gone further north to Cairns (closer to the shelf) and spent their money there...on day 2 his mates had had enough. That morning while he was washing up, and I was lacing baits, he yelled up that he wanted his rod set up with new shock leader and tuna skip bait. While I was setting up the outriggers and teasers the boys attached a damaged heavy duty 9kg downrigger paravane to his wiz bang Penn International and sat the rig on the back edge of the marlin board, with the reel set in free spool and rod in # 2 bucket . As he walked up on deck to see that all was in order…to his liking… his mates pushed the paravane off the back with a boat hook.

Well you should have seen him moved, that fast he tripped over the chummer bin…getting tuna guts and fish oil all over his nice white shirt…got to the chair…(no stand up back then) and hit the strike button….lucky he was in the chair coz he would have gone over the back, as the paravane bit into the water at an acute angle, and started to spin…..
His mates pissed them selves…and told him if he didn’t chill out he would be left behind for ‘those big aussie sharks”
He was very meak as well after his mate landed a nice little 500Lb+ Blue just off Cape Cleveland on the way back in shallow water

What comes around certainly goes around and who else better to tell you than your mates and then to be rubbed in by the deckies. Question the boats captain and you either get the fish of the day or sweet f.a.

We had it once were the 3 guys we were out with lead a mutiny as to the captain's positioning and spot choice and the continuous whiting bites. So after a couple of hours of pointy questions the captain relieved command and stated that 'if you guys are so special, lets see what you can do.' Well as it always seems to happen, a quick 500 meter trip to no-mans land and ignoring the echo, here we go - lets try here. 5 minutes later there's a 5 kg dhuie and 2 big king george on board and a red faced captain who happened to miss out on all the bites from a completely random spot. Lets just say the captain wasn't a happy chappy and the day out ended not long after.

Certainly had that feeling before.. Best was out of Mindarie on an old crayboat, guy had a few of his mates on, couldn't stop getting bites and the lumps were just awesome..

Went out a week later from Hillaries and the captain stunk of booze and looked so hungover, 1 school shark taken for the day and he couldn't give a rats, hardly any bites.. Best was when he set the drift wrong and 8 lines became 1 in less than 5 minutes.. Took them 25 mins to fix and didn't have enough rods to replace all the ones that got worked.

Next time we went out with him the boss's wife went out as well.. What do you know, 1 monster q.snapper, 1 big pinky, 2 sambos, a couple of small harlequin and dhufish galore, with not one stuffup and him changing rigs and taking fish off.. Amazing the difference in service and performance when it comes to the captains state of mind.