scott craven
Well-Known Member
Unfortunately there was so much chaos going on when it went over,
no GPS mark was taken.
Thanks anyway John.
Victoria Reports - Spring and Summer 2011
- Thread starter Last Chance
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Unfortunately there was so much chaos going on when it went over,
no GPS mark was taken.
Thanks anyway John.
totally tyee
Active Member
I saw you out there fishing with one rod and wondered what was going on.
scott craven
Well-Known Member
Ok, here it goes...
Fishing along quite happily when buddy's downrigger starts thumping away
as the ball has hung up on bottom.
I put the boat in neutral just as a wave from a passing boat rocks us a bit
and with the slack in the line the braid jumps off the spool.
He hits the up button & doesn't realize until the line is wrapped about 10 turns underneath.
Out comes the wrench to remove the spool and unwrap the braid, still hung on bottom.
He passes me the rod still attached to the clip as he struggles with tension
on the DR line as the current is pushing us.
"quick, give me some reverse or this is going to break off" he says.
In a state of confusion i lay the rod down on the floor tucked up beside my seat and grabbed the wheel and shifted into reverse to back up.
In a split second the rod launched out of the boat and was gone still attached by the release clip.
What the f**k ???
Finally get the rigger fixed , everything still attached and start to retrieve
when another boat trolls right by us and catches the whole mess on his rod.
The DR line is moving away from us again attached to him.
Now we're fighting with his gear, as well as ours as we're trying to wind the whole mess up.
we got the other guys gear off and caught a quick glimpse of the release clip
about 10 feet down when the line finally broke and down she went.
Utter chaos !
Fishing along quite happily when buddy's downrigger starts thumping away
as the ball has hung up on bottom.
I put the boat in neutral just as a wave from a passing boat rocks us a bit
and with the slack in the line the braid jumps off the spool.
He hits the up button & doesn't realize until the line is wrapped about 10 turns underneath.
Out comes the wrench to remove the spool and unwrap the braid, still hung on bottom.
He passes me the rod still attached to the clip as he struggles with tension
on the DR line as the current is pushing us.
"quick, give me some reverse or this is going to break off" he says.
In a state of confusion i lay the rod down on the floor tucked up beside my seat and grabbed the wheel and shifted into reverse to back up.
In a split second the rod launched out of the boat and was gone still attached by the release clip.
What the f**k ???
Finally get the rigger fixed , everything still attached and start to retrieve
when another boat trolls right by us and catches the whole mess on his rod.
The DR line is moving away from us again attached to him.
Now we're fighting with his gear, as well as ours as we're trying to wind the whole mess up.
we got the other guys gear off and caught a quick glimpse of the release clip
about 10 feet down when the line finally broke and down she went.
Utter chaos !
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Englishman
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Sounds like real bad luck there R.S Craven, with the other boat hanging up on your gear an' all. We are still learning that these sequences of events all happen so quickly out there, it is unreal. We have lost a couple of cannonballs so far, but as yet no rod has gone over. But as a beginner I'm sure it is gonna happen and it is comforting to know it can happen to experts as well as the likes of me!!
scott craven
Well-Known Member
Yeah, he was close for sure .
should have waived him off but was too busy trying to fix the f**k up.
should have waived him off but was too busy trying to fix the f**k up.
Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
That sucks Scott. If it is any consultation I think most of us here have had at least one debacle like that in our fishing careers!
Degree of Freedom
Active Member
wow...that sounds like quite a sh#% show!...lost 4 cannonballs in 25 mins a couple years ago 
NautiGirl
Well-Known Member
Looks like it's confession day or something. Yesterday had the father-in-law out around Sidney Channel and I am trying to make up for last week when my buddy drove us into 55ft with 120ft cable out after repeated warnings while I was getting the gear down. Anyway, after much preaching about watching depth and how to read the GPS/chartplotter, and about 10 repeats of "just stay well away from the crab pots and understand they are at an angle due to the tide".... We needed to go around a crab boat that pulled up directly in front of our troll line. I go back to raise the riggers to avoid bottom, ask if we're ok and let them down. I turn around and my guest is busy watching the crab boat and steers us 10ft beside a crab float. Holy fck- raise the riggers. Halfway up and they are both snagged. Lines& cables clusterfck. Current turning us sideways. Cable under boat. Mono in the kicker. Crab boat pulling us sideways up current with his winch. Much Screaming... Mooching rods bent double. Guest sitting like deer in headlights saying "did i do that?" Aaaahhhhh! Crab boat very helpful yelling at me to cut my rigger cables and get off his gear. Other crabber finally cuts his gear. Got all my gear back less a bunch of mono. The one I cut was still in the release clip. I went to Sidney and all I got was a migraine and the urge to never let someone else drive again. Thanks to the crabbers if you are reading this. Sht happens.
NautiGirl
Well-Known Member
Oh yeah, the report. Tonnes of bait from the Red Can bouy to Fairways patch, especiall by D'arcy Shoals. Lots of seals. A few porpoises running through. Lots of salmon showing... None biting for anyone that I could see..Except for the dick at the boat ramp who insisted on cleaning his fish while blocking the dock with his boat during peak afternoon haul out at Tulista ramp. Could have been my jealousy or my father-in-law, but I wanted to punch the guy in the head.
casper5280
Crew Member
Nauigirl same exact story for me 2 weeks ago in the same place. I didn't have the crab boat to contend with thou. In the end lost 2-12lb cannon balls,2 clips,2 snubbers,2 flashers,2 hoothies, spooled 300 ft off one downrigger and spooled one rod, 100 ft off the other downrigger and half a spool on the rod. $185 later and no fish. Not a good day. Craven know how you feel.
Little Hawk
Active Member
I too, know the feeling Scott. Back in the late 70's my buddy and I were trolling off McNab Cr. (north area of Howe Sound) in my old 18' Fiberform (appropriately named the 'Sound Pounder'). It was late afternoon and we were at least 300 yds off shore trolling gear out, 2 or 3 hundred feet of line on 3 rods with no downriggers, when I left the wheel to my buddy as I stood up to take a leak (box and a half of beers will do that to ya'). As I began to water the daisies I glanced down and was suddenly horrified to see bottom scrolling by not 15/ft below us. In the ensuing '****-show' while scrambling for the rods, buddy elbows me in the head and I tossed the rod I grabbed out into nitherland. Grabbing the remaining rod I began to reel like a madman and sure enough when I brought the hooks back over the transom, there was another fishing line on the hook. Buddy and I looked at each other... 'ya think?' and I grabbed the line and hand-bombed my old Steelite and glass rod back up from the depths. Wish your story ended better.
fishinforever
Well-Known Member
Flats were good tonight.
fishinforever
Well-Known Member
Did that one from my phone. Squirt on the bottom(only ran one rigger) hit 4 landed two. Fished from 630-830. Both landed were wild and released. 14-16 pounders. One that got off was closer to 20. My guess would be another wild fish but who knows. Jigged for the first hour and nothin. Cheers good luck.
