as a kid
Submitted by piscetor on Mon, 2024-11-11 21:40
When i was a cxhild i thougt as a child and played with childish things. The i became a man and bought a boat and went fishing and caught Snapper and Dhu fish and Crayfish, drunk beer and never mowed the lawn--- so much better now.
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Lol
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And as an adult, you can
And as an adult, you can sink piss and type on the internet
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at what point in that
at what point in that journey did you get distracted by the furry magnet, or is that yet to come
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Lead crabs .
Maybe too many lead tainted crabs
for smoko out of the refinery pipelines .??
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lead crabs
Your probably right. maybe thats why i see dead people and whats this nasty rash that won't go away. sorry what where we talking about??
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Woke up dreamin?
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As a kid.... We used to run
As a kid....
We used to run around town with our air rifles shooting starlings, spoggies, sea guls and the occasional other kid....
We used to raid the bins to find glass bottles to get the SA refund then goto the deli and buy lollies with, they'd take them off us then we'd go through the gate when they put them out the back and bring them back in again and buy more lollies, could get away with it a few times....
We also had a bmx gang like BMX bandits....
We used to spear big sting rays as they swum under the jetty in Summer and skull drag them to the beach and onsell to the crayfisherman for bait, onlookers thought we were creative, nowadays you'd front the judge...
Then there was this chic we all wanted to sit next to during maths class.....
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I was like that too Boon.
I was like that too Boon. Growing up in Geelong we would wander around with our air rifles shooting anything we could. Mostly sparrows and starlings but pinged a few other things. Stupidly tried to shoot between my big toe and the next one (I have a big gap) but literally shot myself in the foot! Funnily enough no-one ever lost an eye!
We'd go to the rifle range and collect bullets from the bank behind the targets and melt the lead down to make sinkers. Fished for flathead and king george from Cunningham Pier and Limeburners Point, and back then (early 70's) you could catch trout and redfin in the Barwon River. Was a bloody idyllic place to grow up back then.
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As a kid me and mate used to
As a kid me and mate used to make bolt bombs and send them over the fence to my cranky neighbour to piss her off.
As a kid every Saturday in the late 70's early 80's I would catch the bus to Pier st, walk to Barrack and buy a handful of river prawns and bluebait form the old fish shop that was there.
I'd then spend the whole day down by the river fishing. Plenty of Tailor , yellow eye mullet and Bream.
Used to see massive dead cobbler along the shore as I walked down to the Narrows and the old brewery.
Explored that old brewery a lot when it was derelict.
Sometimes would catch the 305 to Freo and spend the day under the wharf fishing, lots of yellowtail.
Loved those days.
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Those were the days hey
Those were the days hey Andy! I would be gone all day fishing, shooting etc. and provided I was home by dark that was fine. I doub't we would have been so relaxed with our own kids but things are different these days. I'm surprised none of us ever drowned or met some other nasty end, because we weren't that smart a lot of the time!
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Ha ha so true. I worked at
Ha ha so true.
I worked at the local Caltex washing the pumps and cleaning the toilets. That woukd give me enough money for bus fare and bait etc.
Like you say just felt safer then.
I always remember waiting for the bus on Pier st if I fished on a Sunday and would watch the Salvo band assemble for their weekly march around the city.
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Northam
Lived down near the weir in Northam until time to start high school then we moved to Bunbury
The weir was OUR territory and gings were the weapons of choice.
In Bunbury became a jetty rat, knew where all the good spots and hidden landings that involved a lot of climbing down onto rail switch block platforms. As one got pld I got to know the professional fishermen and weekend out on shark, cray and beach seine boats and netting up the estuary was the go. Easter and school holidays spent in a tin shed on the beach in Eagle Bay and down at Hamelin.
One wonders where son Jeff got his liking for fishing from, certainly not me. haha
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Good times!! We all ended up
Good times!!
We all ended up with a motorbike each ( small town back then, 600 people ), we could ride from one town to the next by crossing one or two roads but then hit the dunes or the beaches, this gave us 100kms of freedom and no one knew it like we did back then ( maybe a few of the local dope growers )...
Someones bike would always break down, we got busted by the local copper that many times, he eventually built us a track...
I used to chop up my old mans cray bait for $8/day so I was able to save for my XR80 88 model...
Every old hilux ute out the front of the pub would've had multiple firearms in them, unlocked yet there was never any madness like everyone believes in today...
We were able to go Rabbit trapping one day at primary school, the girls went horse riding and the boys went rabbit trapping, only one kid had a mishap with his thumb in the trap...
I grew up in the old harbour masters house in my town until I was 11, I could literally jump the back fence and land on the sand, Dad had a catarmaran he'd winch up these ramps he had right behind the building, the km long jetty was about 80m away, mum still thinks its a miracle I didn't fall into the drink when I'd fuck off out the jetty to watch one of the trawlers or cray boats unloading when I was too young to be doing so...
I'm sorry to hear about your foot mishap Dave haha!!
Andy did you know why the Cobbler were dying?
John, I was working up in Eagle Bay the other day for the first time n a while, bloody hell that is paradise up there...
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IMO probably from all the
IMO probably from all the fertilisers and chemicals leached into the river from the race courses and river front properties.
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Eagle Bay
The shed was owned by old Nick Soulos, the concrete floor are all that remains and the telegraph pole had a crossarm on it to sit on while watching for salmon schools. The main way in was the then a gravel road down the hill behind the now settlement. There was a bloody rough track through to Meelup part of which can be seen going over the big hump at Point Piquet. We'd shoot rabbits and an occassional roo roo to add to our neverending pot of stew that got added to each day or when it got a bit low, it was tipped into a bucket once a week to wash the pot, then put back in. Too bad if you didn't like stew because there was only herring if we caught some and they were done straight out of the water onto a hot plate, gizzards roll up in a ball,and when the skin and scales started to peel off they were ready to eat, still love them tat way.
I did another full salmon season when I was about 17, not many fish that year and at square up my account was $28, not bad for 3 1/2 months work sitting on a beach every day waiting for fish to come. In a way I was lucky that I missed having to head and gut the fish on the beach with the fish factory in Busselton doing that for us.
AAAh the memories
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As a kid growing up in
As a kid growing up in manning my haunt was canning bridge. Get home from school and grabbed all my fishing gear and off I went. Digging blood worms from the bank for bait. Bream and cobbler were the targets back then.
Also fished the narrows and causeway with weekend trip on the bike down to Fremantle for the day with plenty of herring , Skippy and gardies to take home. Back then a 20klm ride on the bike was nothing. Don't think kids would do that these days . Not that that than many folks would let their kids do it anyway.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
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Funny you say that Russ, A
Funny you say that Russ, A couple of times I rode my bike to Blackwall reach from Maida Vale where I was living at the time, what an adventure that was.
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I remember jumping off the
I remember jumping off the top many times. Even saw a guy try to back flip off there . Landed flat on his back. Ended up in a whole lot of pain
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together