Garry I can’t stop watching the part where he said “it would never end!! It would never end. These were the days my friend, we thought they would never end…. It was great “ brought a tear to my eye as my grandfather use to work on the boats he was Croatian 😢😢
Soon after WW2 finished my uncle and my father were approached by the Greenseas cannery based at Narooma NSW to trial tuna fishing using the American method and fitted out a 40 foot boat called Neried locally built at Bermagui and based there, up till that time tuna were considered a nuicance fish only used for bait and were plentiful, I remember as a youngster seeing horizon to horizon schools from the Montague Island lighthouse during the season the fishing was by trolling and the trial was conducted during the off season and failed.
Thanks for posting. I was there from 65 to 69. Nice to see Barry Warren, I was on the Imlay in 66. And then there's Jack Chemello too. Was with him on the Karina G in 67/68. Some hard cases back then, especially in Port Lincoln.
RE: wood vs steel hulls Electrical currents are known to attract fish. (Example; 0.7 Amps for Salmon) I've often thought low amperage would likewise attract tuna. I played around with putting Amps in the water. Nothing conclusive but 0.4 Amps seemed to produce best results for catching tuna via poling (sans chum bait) I wonder if it is stray current emanating from the hull.
There was a man in southern California who turned his C-150 into a flying gas tank. He carried just over 100 gallons. One instance when I was pole fishing, I hooked an enormous Blue Fin. I couldn't keep him headed to the boat. He headed for the bottom. The entire 14' pole was straight down in the water, then my harm, then my upper body. The guys on either sside of me both grabbed my belt as I was about to go off the boat into the briney deep. It took the three of us to struggle that fish onto the boat. My foulies were ballooned with gallons of water. If I had let go of the pole it is likely the whole school would have gone. That leads to a reason of animosity between old hands and newcomers to the fleet, especially the amateurs who are half serious about catching. So often a school would disappear because some clown on another boat lost a fish. Tuna very much school, that is an advantage to the fisherman but disatrous to the careless.
A fella (good bloke) I sailed with on a different sea job told me of a time back when he was poling. Long story short, once the last he saw of the fella next to him was the soles of his gummies disappearing into the blue. Forgot to clip on.
At 21yo, I was lucky enough to crew on the Karina G in 1985, Dean Lukin had won the first Olympic Gold medal for Australia in weightlifting 1984, I believe we made it all the way to the WA border before returning with 75 tonnes between us and the Daggerad. I would love to know how the rest of the crew are doing.
What gems. Just subscribed. Loved the TI pearl divers and the boats. Especially the Torres Herald. Crewed on her and the Golden Plover in the late 70s.
Huh? Aussies live in Austria, is there any tuna in those mountains? And Ossies were in Eastern Germany, only canned tuna over there. This is getting weird. Why are Australians not nicknamed Alians? For that is what they are, aren't they? Get a reel!
The .10 cents (Australian) per kilogram in 1938 was better than what we got in the 1980s when I fished (trolling) for Albacore around the North Pacifc (the 'Midway' fleet) based out of U.S. west coast. Our prospects were not much better when the fleet fished south-southwest from American Samoa. Oh the fish were there but the peckerhead buyers had us over a barrel and they knew it.
I did switch to pole fishing as shown in this video. But the price was even less. Pole fishing featured short trips of no more than a week at a time whereas the Midway fleet were making months long trips. Hence bringing in smaller loads but more often. I think that affected the price. Quality of pole caught fish was no better than troll caught fish.
Ha, I think it was the writer Ernest Hemingway, who was more than a bit hooked by tuna fishing. Back in those days, tuna's and other large fish were just as strong as they are today. No carbon fibre rods, though. I guess the gear was a bit heavier than it can be today. Does it matter that much? It's about catching them.
Recreationally, I have only used rods of split bamboo. For commercial poling, we used bamboo stalks. I often have said, and say now, that one shant die without catching a big tuna first.
Rape and pillage, by the commercial fishing industry. What's there to be proud of? The extent of the resource was decimated, by greedy, self- congratulators .
30:21 A pilot with a red nose. Well, better leave him in the pub. Do you know that Rudolf story? Safety experts do not like red noses, either. Other pilots have white powder up their nose. Where does this story end? Yep, in a fatal crash. How come this man still lives? Miracle, mate, a miracle. 45:23 This one's got a weird nose, too. What the Flip do these men to their own nose? Are they addictives? Why don't they drink tea?
@@nickfarr691 Next step is measuring their skulls, and sending the faces we don't like to Oblivian. Meanwhile we sing agressive songs about a Promised Land without faces we don't like. I guess that is why we call it face-ism. The only funny thing is the You Boat. Those things go younder water. Again, English is weird. Why does under start with a you? It is an uh! Not you! Let us measure the skulls of those who speak Anglisch! Unless they got a red nose, off course! Now it is time to sing about young men in a uniform! Do you know that song about a crying mother? Both her husband and her son marched away shouting angry songs, waving some stupid flag. It just doesn't work. Maybe those skulls don't matter a darn? Shut up, sing along! Did you have something like this in mind?
Eugenics? Funny you accuse Australians of this! I thought it the realm of true fascists. This is a story of history, our shared history, of what we should not be ashamed. Did you not see this? A fishing tradition which we have learnt from, adapted and because of these lessons have become a more sustainable fishery. A lesson for the EU due to the failures of that fishery should learn. A lesson in tolerance and the progressive acceptance of sustainablility. Jinga Walla. Look it up. Bungalong language.
@@davidwolff8903 david wolf, yes plenty things one can eat without bestiality, without applying mentally retarded bestial practices, you dont know this , you are not even remotely aware that it is possibly to live morally clean
Garry I can’t stop watching the part where he said “it would never end!! It would never end. These were the days my friend, we thought they would never end…. It was great “ brought a tear to my eye as my grandfather use to work on the boats he was Croatian 😢😢
Love hearing this old school stuff. 👍
A fantastic documentary with input from the people who were there. Massive thanks for sharing !
Just came across your page and it’s amazing! Thank you for sharing this
Soon after WW2 finished my uncle and my father were approached by the Greenseas cannery based at Narooma NSW to trial tuna fishing using the American method and fitted out a 40 foot boat called Neried locally built at Bermagui and based there, up till that time tuna were considered a nuicance fish only used for bait and were plentiful, I remember as a youngster seeing horizon to horizon schools from the Montague Island lighthouse during the season the fishing was by trolling and the trial was conducted during the off season and failed.
Thanks for posting. I was there from 65 to 69. Nice to see Barry Warren, I was on the Imlay in 66. And then there's Jack Chemello too. Was with him on the Karina G in 67/68. Some hard cases back then, especially in Port Lincoln.
Thanks for these videos. 👍
RE: wood vs steel hulls
Electrical currents are known to attract fish. (Example; 0.7 Amps for Salmon)
I've often thought low amperage would likewise attract tuna.
I played around with putting Amps in the water. Nothing conclusive but 0.4 Amps seemed to produce best results for catching tuna via poling (sans chum bait)
I wonder if it is stray current emanating from the hull.
There was a man in southern California who turned his C-150 into a flying gas tank. He carried just over 100 gallons.
One instance when I was pole fishing, I hooked an enormous Blue Fin. I couldn't keep him headed to the boat. He headed for the bottom. The entire 14' pole was straight down in the water, then my harm, then my upper body. The guys on either sside of me both grabbed my belt as I was about to go off the boat into the briney deep. It took the three of us to struggle that fish onto the boat. My foulies were ballooned with gallons of water. If I had let go of the pole it is likely the whole school would have gone.
That leads to a reason of animosity between old hands and newcomers to the fleet, especially the amateurs who are half serious about catching. So often a school would disappear because some clown on another boat lost a fish. Tuna very much school, that is an advantage to the fisherman but disatrous to the careless.
A fella (good bloke) I sailed with on a different sea job told me of a time back when he was poling. Long story short, once the last he saw of the fella next to him was the soles of his gummies disappearing into the blue. Forgot to clip on.
You guys were/are AMAZING.... I would have loved to be on one of these boats yarding the pigs over the gunnels...wow
At 21yo, I was lucky enough to crew on the Karina G in 1985, Dean Lukin had won the first Olympic Gold medal for Australia in weightlifting 1984, I believe we made it all the way to the WA border before returning with 75 tonnes between us and the Daggerad.
I would love to know how the rest of the crew are doing.
The lucky are bad. People's
So you helped ruin sea life. So proud of yourself.
WHAT a GREAT DOCO on these People of Substance.
What gems. Just subscribed. Loved the TI pearl divers and the boats. Especially the Torres Herald. Crewed on her and the Golden Plover in the late 70s.
thanks garry excellent mate
And we wonder why there's so few left
No shortage
There is shit loads
Fish are being wiped out because of purseseiner vessels. They net the entirety of schools. Hook and line fishing is a sustainable way of fishing
@@etothelij I thought purse seining was in farms normally
@maxl3189 fuck no. There are illegal purseseiners everywhere. Lot of asia/indonesians. Just a few 100 miles offshore in most places
My first skipper was Ken Tidswell.
Les Warren ... legend .
Those were the days when aussies were dinkum hard workers with wooden boats
Huh? Aussies live in Austria, is there any tuna in those mountains? And Ossies were in Eastern Germany, only canned tuna over there. This is getting weird. Why are Australians not nicknamed Alians? For that is what they are, aren't they? Get a reel!
@@voornaam3191 your a different creature.
Subscribed. Keep all of it coming
My photos of the Aislinn at St. Francis Island and the Super Dog on the shelf.
The .10 cents (Australian) per kilogram in 1938 was better than what we got in the 1980s when I fished (trolling) for Albacore around the North Pacifc (the 'Midway' fleet) based out of U.S. west coast.
Our prospects were not much better when the fleet fished south-southwest from American Samoa. Oh the fish were there but the peckerhead buyers had us over a barrel and they knew it.
I did switch to pole fishing as shown in this video. But the price was even less. Pole fishing featured short trips of no more than a week at a time whereas the Midway fleet were making months long trips. Hence bringing in smaller loads but more often. I think that affected the price. Quality of pole caught fish was no better than troll caught fish.
Ha, I think it was the writer Ernest Hemingway, who was more than a bit hooked by tuna fishing. Back in those days, tuna's and other large fish were just as strong as they are today. No carbon fibre rods, though. I guess the gear was a bit heavier than it can be today. Does it matter that much? It's about catching them.
Recreationally, I have only used rods of split bamboo. For commercial poling, we used bamboo stalks.
I often have said, and say now, that one shant die without catching a big tuna first.
A little appalled at the lack of understanding, feeling sad
You should look into Patrick Warren Im quiet certain he had a lot to do with the Tuna industry here in Australia
Liked it! In mediterranean tuna was caught since centuries before, but nice to learn how it worked in other areas
Did 'The Shiralee' fish for tuna?
Lmao imagine being so greedy you nearly sink your boat.
Wow
Hence why we have no fish
Rape and pillage, by the commercial fishing industry. What's there to be proud of? The extent of the resource was decimated, by greedy, self- congratulators .
Plenty of fish there
Realy easy to say with the benefit of hindsight and and internet degree.
@@davidgreen7513 BS. They said it at the time, the fishermen themselves.
raping the oceans ,
lol 😂
Yes
So disgusting this greed.
30:21 A pilot with a red nose. Well, better leave him in the pub. Do you know that Rudolf story? Safety experts do not like red noses, either. Other pilots have white powder up their nose. Where does this story end? Yep, in a fatal crash. How come this man still lives? Miracle, mate, a miracle.
45:23 This one's got a weird nose, too. What the Flip do these men to their own nose? Are they addictives? Why don't they drink tea?
I am afraid your fascination with men's noses is disturbing to me.
@@nickfarr691 Next step is measuring their skulls, and sending the faces we don't like to Oblivian. Meanwhile we sing agressive songs about a Promised Land without faces we don't like. I guess that is why we call it face-ism. The only funny thing is the You Boat. Those things go younder water. Again, English is weird. Why does under start with a you? It is an uh! Not you! Let us measure the skulls of those who speak Anglisch! Unless they got a red nose, off course!
Now it is time to sing about young men in a uniform! Do you know that song about a crying mother? Both her husband and her son marched away shouting angry songs, waving some stupid flag. It just doesn't work. Maybe those skulls don't matter a darn? Shut up, sing along!
Did you have something like this in mind?
Eugenics? Funny you accuse Australians of this! I thought it the realm of true fascists. This is a story of history, our shared history, of what we should not be ashamed. Did you not see this? A fishing tradition which we have learnt from, adapted and because of these lessons have become a more sustainable fishery. A lesson for the EU due to the failures of that fishery should learn. A lesson in tolerance and the progressive acceptance of sustainablility. Jinga Walla. Look it up. Bungalong language.
Human beasts slaughtering fish, how wonderful
What do you eat? Carrots?
@@davidwolff8903 david wolf, yes plenty things one can eat without bestiality, without applying mentally retarded bestial practices, you dont know this , you are not even remotely aware that it is possibly to live morally clean
@@petyapetya2795 PMSFL
Moron
@@davidwolff8903 eats ass