Fishing rituals - have you got any?
Submitted by crasny1 on Wed, 2013-06-19 09:08
Just wondering if anybody had some ritual/punishment.
On our boat if we dont catch a legal fish we call it Dacked. Whoever is guilty of that sin has to drop their dacks and do a 360degree turn. Doesnt have to be done in open public (in my case that is probably very wise) but it is considered bad luck if we dont for future fishing.
Also include a crab pot string that has no keepers.
I dont remember where it started, and how it started, but it was many years ago fishing as Uni student off Rotto when "brown eyes" were in. Now part of the boat, and everyone that comes onboard for a fish is informed off the rule. Places pressure on my mates.
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Stevef
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Fish on the day. We draw lots
Fish of the day.
We draw lots for a fish species and whoever catches the best of that species for the day has to serve grog for everyone else once we get off the boat.
chris raff
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No bananas .. and no bevies
No bananas .. and no bevies until a good fish is in the boat , unfortunately that last rule has been broken many times
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D_d_001
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not sure if this qualifies as a ritual
but the rule on my boat is
When trolling or have back floating baits.
we take turns on each strike........unless it jumps !
then it's who ever the rod belongs to.
Cardinal
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old school Mets!!
listen to old school metallica on the way!! Motorbreath always pumps me up for good fight on a good fish
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beeroclock
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They Always get
a big kiss before release (except for nor'westers n red scorpion fish)
sea-kem
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Check the bungs.
Check the bungs.
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catchalittle
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On returning to the ramp
On returning to the ramp always feed a pelican
Nathan
dant
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must have a roady on the way
must have a roady on the way out and way back in (and a few inbetween)
tradition to have a bourbon back at the house, whilst cleaning filleting etc.
im an old school R&B fan - biggy and Dre are always first to board.
tim-o
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Oi crasny, you are the
Oi crasny, you are the skipper and you dileberatly go to spots that have no fish dont you..........
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Rig
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pants
I was going to say I am happier when deckies keep their pants on
crasny1
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Lately my deckie
has been the fishing fanatic Mrs
.
Took a visiting eye specialist and his very Chatty understudy out to a shack and fishing not so long ago. Now as luck would have it, the female understudy talked that much whilst fishing, the other 3 could (and should) have dumped her over board for some peace (our boat is silent, no music to break the peace of fishing)
But when your mouth dont stop moving fishing concentration is lacking, and a rule is a rule. The other 3 off us got keepers early on, chatterbox despite knowing the rule probably thought we were joking. But no. Its a curse on the boat if you dont catch a fish.
Also have the crack a tinny going out rule. It has to be cracked, not necessarily drunk, and a portion each person onboard has to be donated to Poseiden, king of the sea. So even leaving for a Rooster time fish, it has to be cracked and "shared"
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pricey10
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i like the "crack a tinnie on
i like the "crack a tinnie on the way out rule" i might start using that one
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quadfisher
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Oh no not the soggy biscuit
This is a massive trade secret so I wont be telling all , but lets just say solunar charts, moon up/down
and crap like tides , winds etc play only a small part in fishing compared to ............. shh biscuits.
After many years of fishing and biscuit eating , the time has come to spill the beans.
I wont be naming names , but lets just say there is a direct and undenighable link, in fish catch rates and
the wonder food that is biscuits.
Metro spanyard fishing in lean years is very tough, but we have totally killed the pig when a certain type of arnnotts cream
biscuit is produced from the lunch bag, and up north red emporers seem to respond well to a savory type in a colourful rectangle box.
Indeed I wouldnt waste my time and energy winter snapper chasing without a type of hard, redhead, disc of pure f.a.d.
Old MR Arnnott himself , would choke on a iced vovo, if he could see the dhuies that have rocketed up on our lines
due to the biscuit waft coming off a packet of ........ well you get the idea.
A few disbelievers out there is there, well I have witnessed grown men sneakerly rubbing the crumbs off there fingers onto
baits, only to turn up the goods on the very next drift!.
The secrets out, and no I dont work for Arnotts , just passing on the facts.
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tim-o
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Soggy biscuit, though u were
Soggy biscuit, though u were going somewhere else with that lol
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TorquenFish
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Hahaha me too.
Hahaha me too.
Belly Fish
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Similar to one before...
We have a rule that we can't have a beer until a good fish is caught, until one isn't, then we have a second rule that we should have a beer for good luck
uncle
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get hammered for angler error
if a fish breaks a line if its not bitten off etc, specially for pulled knots in the sin bin!!! got One crewie we call slip knot!!!
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
scano
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A few basic ones
Crack the first beer once a good keeper fish is in the esky,
the fish always seem to come on the bite when the Metallica black album goes on the stereo of Bodies boat.
no bananas to be bought on board.
sometimes if I am a bit down on luck for the day I will donate a few coins from my pocket to the sea. It's my way of donating to the fish gods.
other mates on a recent trip to exmouth were praying to Poseidon and Neptune because they are both good blokes ( they used a different term for it at the time)
but above all else just respect the sea, stick within the limits and remember that you are there for a good experience amongst good mates. And we are all very lucky to share such a privilege.
psion
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Bananas
We take a banana out, if we don't have any luck it has to be eaten, if we catch fish it goes back in to cooler for the next trip. unluckily I have never had to keep a banana for more than 2 trips
Justo82
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Bungs in before I leave the
Bungs in before I leave the house.
terboz123
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ahh a recent trip to exxy
ahh a recent trip to exxy started the marlin dance......with a certain hed kandi song playing....everytime we did when things were slow we cranked it up and start doing our thing on the back deck and it always seemed to raise a bill of some sort...was real real weird to be honest.
It all came from being some what blind on the boat and boredom while towing skirts along!
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Old rusty Hooks
a small offering to the tackle gods so they don't take the whole rig. nothing worse than getting robbed when the actions on.
This habit is getting expensive!
Brucesta
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used to have the rule of no
used to have the rule of no one drinks a beer until we have a keeper got thrown out when we started looking for new ground and also billfishing for obvious reasons but i have a rule now that if someone loses a big fish out wide without seeing it, then it was a 10kg Red they just dropped. I tried to run a topless rule on the boat but my female fishing friend didnt like that one at all. Only other rule is i must call a 5 minute warning before moving spots or going home, i have about a 70% strike rate with someone onboard getting a keeper if this is said.
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A have a friend we now call
A have a friend we now call banana boy because once on a shit fishing day he - yep - you guessed pulled out a frigging banana when we stopped for lunch.
Now as above when I usually have a sanga followed by mums honey oat biscuits the fish normally come on big time.
Well this did not occur on this particular day!!. Told him to swim home if he didn't chuck the banana overboard. banana went over - not one fish for the day!! Not happy Jan.
He now tells me he snuk down in the night and smeared banana all over the boat and hid some on board too.
I have since stripped and washed the boat out and only a thorough clean recovered my fishing mojo.
Banana boy is now restricted to fishing off jetties and hasn't been on my boat since.
Bugger even turned up to new years eve at our place with a banana hanging off a necklace. Should have served him tofu!!
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