think it was around Sth Passage and about 2 years ago
Jeremy
Fellow fishers,
Read the other day that these blokes sunk a boat in Moreton Bay not so long ago. Anybody know what happen and what became of it.?
Please share
think it was around Sth Passage and about 2 years ago
Jeremy
"The underlying spirit of angling is that the skill of the angler is pitted against the instinct and strength of the fish and the latter is entitled to an even chance for it's life."
(Quotation from the rules of the Tuna Club Avalon, Santa Catalina, U.S.A.)
Apathy is the enemy
Noodlemantra,
I think it happened 3 or more years ago. Now Andrew Symonds made the Australian side again, if he bats with Haydos the story gets repeated as if it happened yesterday. I think the story now is the boat overturned at South Passage Bar and they had to swim in shark infested waters for hours before they safely made land at Straddie.
remember seeing this in the news years ago. pretty sure i remember seeing the vmr towing it in. I thought at the time it wasn't much of a boat for mega star/rich cricket players. but then again it was better than the boat i don't have
Yep... 2 or 3 years now since that happened. Can't remember what happened to the boat, all I can remember hearing that they swam for close to 2 hours in shark infested water trying to get back to Straddie. Only Haydo's, Roy and perhaps Grant Hackett could do that!
TT
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LW
Here is an excerpt from a NMSC paper on flotation devices, which mentions hayden and symonds accident. Apparently happened in Dec 1999
“It all happened so bloody quickly,” the opening batsman said of the accident that happened a few years ago - when his boat hit a sand bar, capsized and sank off North Stradbroke Island. Matthew conceded that he compromised things that day, and the biggest compromise of all was that he and his two mates, fellow cricketer Andrew Symonds and friend Trent Butler, were not wearing lifejackets. “On that day, we hit a wave, came back hard down on our stern and water punched its way up the exhaust manifold. “We had no power, we were right in the impact position on the bar and we were just stranded. Before they knew it, the boat had capsized; it took the trio an hour to swim to shore, battling currents, crashing waves and eventually, shock and exhaustion. "
Cheers
Mike
I thought it was longer than the 2 - 3 years mentioned here - but who woulda thunk 7 years ago !!! Gee time flys.
There is an interview with Hayden about the incident on the fishing DVD which is simply titled "The Fishing DVD Number Six" produced by Offshore Productions at Tewantin. #http://www.fishingdvd.com.au/fishing_dvd6.html
In it, Hayden briefly describes the incident in similar words to what Marlin Mike has shown above and emphasises the need to wear a lifejacket when crossing bars. #In fact the reason that he does the interview is as a public service to encourage others to wear life jackets when crossing bars. #The short segment is at the end of the chapter on jigging wrecks.
Hey everyone,
I received Andrews Symonds biography "Roy- Going for Broke" for Christmas. Great to read a book about an Aussie bloke who shares my two passions in life - Fishing and Cricket!
In the book Andrew says that just after Christmass 1999, Brooke (his wife) took a holiday on North Straddy with Haydos and his wife Kellie.
Here is an extract of the story from the book, written by Symonds himself:
"We left around dawm and headed for the Amity Point Bar. I was driving and was using our GPS to follow the "bread crumbs" - the trail out that we had followed over the past few days - and although it was getting light, my direction was out that day and by the time we got close to getting through the sand bar and out into the open sea, we were probably 50 metres off where we should have been. Big mistake. Out of nowhere, a set of three huge waves stood up right in front of us. I looked over at Haydos to see what he reckoned we should do, 'give it a gutful', was his advice, so I did, and managed to get airborne over the first wave, but we landed heavily and dunked the motor, snuffing it out. A second later, the next wave hit us and pushed us half side-on, filling the boat up to our carves. We tried to re-start the engine but there was no spark so we did a quick check of the battery and fuel line to see if anything had come loose but there was nothing wrong as far as we could see. Anyway, we were now totally side-on to the third wave and it was fairly clear to all aboard we were going for a dip. Although there was no time to get the life jackets, just as we were about the take the plunge over the side, Haydos coolly grabbed his sunnies and tucked them into his togs! Moments later the third big wave swamped us and our boat began to sink below the surface, ending up seconds later with only the nose showing. . . . . "
The story goes on to describe how the boys swam about a kilometre to shore. After the incident their Bulls team-mates dubbed them as "Skipper" and "Gilligan" for the remainder of the summer.
A great book for Aussie blokes who aren't into a big read - plenty of photos (yep including fish!) and lots of statistics too.
Hope that was some help,
Cheers,
Darc
During the melbourne test match lunch break they had a show with Roy called
" Fishing with Roy"
he said that if he wasnt a cricketer he would like to do a fishing show on TV
It showed him fishing around the gold coast broadwater with poppers and soft plastics with "Franco" who i think might be a ausfish member
Well Roy never caught a fish and franco caught a few
he did seem to know what he was talking about in the show and if he had a show i think i would watch it
at the end of it channel nines Simon O Donnel said that roy should pick his fishing partners better and not to fish with people that out fish you on your own show
cheers
scotty
Yes I heard about that segment on the melb test. My deckie told me Roy was fishing in my special secret spot, and told all the world where to catch fish I didnt know Franco was involved
Not happy Jan
Oh well, at least not many ausfishers saw it.
What did Franco catch?
ANdrew
they were chasing jacks but he landed a trevelly
they also caught a few flathead
so now i know where your secret spot is i might have to give a go lol
scotty
saw it also..sovereign Islands I think it was
Yep it ws franco and i think it was "Roys Classic Catches" using chug bugs for jacks, but franco eventually got a nice golden on a placcy.