Great pics but please post a DT warning where appropriate
great post mate. awesome stuff and i bet alot of great memories.
cheers
Great pics but please post a DT warning where appropriate
Top stuff Davo, brings back good memories for me too.
My pics can't compare with those, especially the pics of Tony Abbott..
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hahaha. mate i remember trawling moreton bay too. i love the bay now but i hated it then. 1 hour shots full of mud, sponges and crap (like in your pics). off townsville, we used to do 3 hour shots and there was less crap on the sorting tray than from an hour long shot down here. i even remember once doing 2 6 hour shots for the night. anytime you needed work up north you only had to mention that you had worked moreton bay and you were in. skippers snapped you up because they knew that you knew how to work. i worked on about 10 trawlers up north and spent 1 whole weekend unemployed which i actually chose to take off. living in close quarters with someone it is imperative that you get on well and i am such a hard arse to get on with...
the worst boat i can remember working on, the skipper had a vb stubbie in his hand from the time we left port until the time we got back and then he was up the pub. there was more space in the cold room dedicated to vb than prawns and i have never been on a filthier boat. cockroaches (no offence macca, boat hog, murf etc) ran around the wheelhouse brazenly in the day time. did one 2 week trip on that boat before moving on. the lord nelson was a dry boat and the boat i made the most money from. coincidence? i don't think so. we only drank when we were taking time off and on special occasions like birthdays. one of the last boats i worked (the lazy river) sunk north of southport 6 months after i got off it. that skipper nearly wrecked the boat off mackay whilst pissed so i would be surprised if he were sober when she sunk... dangerous work environment to be an alcoholic, no doubt about it.
fishing's as simple as 3 P's - patience, perserverance and PLASTIC!
Quite an impressive effort building Lord Nelson on the beach. Thanks for the post.
I saw plenty of that behaivour on other boats in the bay Davo, but Marvan was strickly a dry boat and I have carried that through to my own boating, As we all know, it can go wrong all too quickly.
BINGO
The good old days Netmaker,i remember the shell6 a life saver for a block of chocy chips and beer water and more gogo juice to catch more prawns,yes the old bay was were you did your apperntership picking bays,alls you dreamed about was going north,townsville was a great port back then and the vic park pub it use to supprize my how many cheques they cashed,but from the bay to bedford and flattery and pcb was a great eye opener,seasnakes bigger critters to deal with on the tray,wonky holes and working lots more weather i just wish id made it to the gulf and straits,just imagine how much easyer it would have been if TEDs were in place back then,i remember not seeing the other decky from dumping the nets,cheers chris.
yes mate. they definately were the good ol days. if i didn't get married i certainly wouldn't be shining an office seat with my butt now. i still dream of those days from time to time and wake up with that empty, longing feeling. i did a trip up to townsville 2 years ago and visited the vic park for lunch but it is not the same anymore... i remember when they used to close the doors at 10pm and we would party on out the back for hours after. and then on saturday mornings they had the "heart starters club". beers started at something like 30 cents and went up by 15 cents every 15 minutes. it helped beat the friday night hangover...
never made it up the gulf myself, only to just shy of yorke island. and TED's. yeah!!! i fell asleep at the wheel ONCE. and would you believe we overshot our mark by 1 mile. when we lifted the starboard gear we dropped 5 BIG bull rays on the tray. luckily there was bugger all prawn there so we just spilled the port side bags over the side as there was another 4 rays on that side. my punishment for falling asleep was to get all 5 off the boat on my own. NEVER fell asleep at the wheel again...
fishing's as simple as 3 P's - patience, perserverance and PLASTIC!
Hi there Bingo i remeber the Marvan for doboy creek i started out in the bay on the Mobydick when it was up at builimba.
i remember marvan too. i worked on the camira in doboy creek and also the midnight lady. also remember the moby dick too chris.
fishing's as simple as 3 P's - patience, perserverance and PLASTIC!
Awesome pics n.m, you must have some great memories and experiences, if only the fishing was still that good.
cheers ranga
Hi there Dave did you work with the bradlys, i think that owned it and his brother had another one, green and the same hull.
yes mate. my first trawler gig was with frank bradley junior. his brother bernie still runs the evie kay (i think) which would be the other green one you are thinking of and there is another bradley brother the rest of the family has shunned. he works only up north and i dont recall the name of his boat.
fishing's as simple as 3 P's - patience, perserverance and PLASTIC!