Rex Hunt "dacked" by airport security

[Fitzy]

Actually had a fair old discussion at a recent fishing comp with a few other fishing industry guys on this topic. One was saying he got pulled up for the trebles on his lures when he was flying up to darwin. Has anyone else seen/heard this?
I've flown to Nth Qld several times carrying lures in my shoulder bag (twice in the past 6 months) & never had anything said.

I dont think it matters (knives etc) what you put in the luggage that goes into the cargo hold, just cant have them in your 'carry on luggage". Is this correct?

Fitz..

[basserman]

i think in this day and age we all can get a bit carried away!
hell no matter what they ban us takeing on transport the thugs will only come up with something else!
wouldn't it be easyer to alow metal back on at leats then it is easyer to pick up on scans and the marshles then made aware of the highriskers!
soon or later it will be next to imposable to take anything on board a flight they will just have us all sit still for the whole trip!

trebles dangours???
metal forks deadly???
butter knifes that can kill???
where will it end???

[Gorilla_in_Manila]

Don't know about the trebbles Fitzy, but yes you can put all the pointy things in cargo. Leatherman tools, pocket knives, screw drivers, and nail clippers have to go in the check in baggage.
They will let you take the nail clippers on if the nail file bit is busted off.
I'd be checking in my favourite lures even if they are allowed to make sure you don't get some security guy that is also a keen fisherman taking them off you anyway.
Cheers
Jeff

[Fitzy]

I'd be checking in my favourite lures even if they are allowed to make sure you don't get some security guy that is also a keen fisherman taking them off you anyway. #
Cheers
Jeff

My thoughts exactly. I've tried carrying my Loomis rods on board with me before but been knocked back. I'll keep trying tho..

Last flight up north I forgot to turn off the mobile I got a txt message whilst climbing from Brisso, was just above Bribie Is looking at the pack of boats up the north end chasing choona. Boy I got a few bad looks from everyone. I near broke the thing shutting it down ASAP. Ooops

Cheers,

Fitzy..

[raefpud]

dont even try to take ur tackle box on as hand lugagge, any hook is deemed as a pointed sharpened instrument and therefore a dangerous weapon - a tackle box worth $4k + and a suitcase ull of clothes worth less than a grand - belive me i made sure they used half a roll of gaffer tape and bubble wrap before they let my tackle box travel in cargo hold.

[subzero]

My Missus brought me a cigarette lighter when we went to melbourne last year. She brought it at one of the airport shops and it cost her $30-00. It was supposed to be a surprise and was in her purse when it got scanned. They pulled it out in front of me much to her embarressment as she didnt want me to know about it, (A Gift), they checked it out and said because the lighter was ellectronic and emitted a BLUE FLAME, she could not take it with her. With the travel delays at the time, the hold ups associated with my daughter in her wheelchair, the fact that we had processed our luggage an hour earlier, they would not allow us any time to return it for a refund, post it or anything else. The kids especially, and her were pretty pissed off about it... I suppose they thought my missus or kids were going to set fire to the plane... I wondered wether they returned these lighters to the shop at the airport for re-sale, almost as good a scam as that Ashley1984 bastard...
Never mind, it was only $30-00, it was the thought that counts

[Barrymundi]

I went three Airport with a pocket knife in my carry on backpack.

The security guy was pretty smart. It was an honest mistake. I thought I lost the knife. He changed his tone when I told him this was the third check today and he was the first to find it.

[lordy]

Don't know about the trebbles Fitzy, but yes you can put all the pointy things in cargo. Leatherman tools, pocket knives, screw drivers, and nail clippers have to go in the check in baggage.
They will let you take the nail clippers on if the nail file bit is busted off.
I'd be checking in my favourite lures even if they are allowed to make sure you don't get some security guy that is also a keen fisherman taking them off you anyway. #
Cheers
Jeff

Yeah that's exaclty what they wanted to do to my nail file. Had to go back to Qantas and get them to put it in a special bag (one of those large sized blue-red-white stripped plastic bags) by itself and send it up as luggage. Funny thing is it was on my key ring and was never a problem the first 5 or 6 times I flew, even at the same airport under the same regulations.

[craigie]

Yes Fitzy, Many moons ago on a fishing trip accross the Phillipines (have I spelt that right Jeff ?), I tried taking a Rapala cd18 on an internal flight as hand luggage, well when the airport security guy (who was holding a AK47 or similar ) found it, I graciously accepted his offer to put it in with cargo baggage .

Cheers Craigie.

[kingmad]

"I'll show you!"---Ever notice how saying this almost always leads to trouble for you?

Other lines to watch out for are, "Trust me" and "The check is in the mail."

Then there is the infamous, "Honey, hold my beer and watch this!" which, by the way, is the most common last words spoken by men from Wisconsin. (Illinois humor, we battle the people up north of our border, which is often referred to as the "Cheddar Curtain." #

Fork smuggling. #I think alchohol might have been involved in some way.

El carpo,
I think the ozzy expresion is "she'll be right" also known as the famous last words.

[sir_noelus]

Funny things happen when you fly. A year or two ago, flying to NZ, a mate had all his gear in an army duffle bag. He's ex army. In the airport at Sydney a lot of service men were going somewhere????? Arrived in Aukland without his gear. Reported it, it was picked up and went with the army guys (didn't read the label) and the airline was very good at getting it back to NZ. It flew in of course, was then delivered to the middle of the north island by taxi. Appears the taxi driver may have been a fisherman. There was not one fly box or fly left in his gear. Airline says it had passed security and they had no reason to recheck it and were not (probably right) responsible. That's aside from the fact that RH is a bit of a Richard Cranium. Noel.

[priemsy]

Well, if I go through Qantas, my steel knee gets picked up on the scan. When I go through virgin blue it doesn,t. Work that one out.
Paul