Trolling along....damn I am snagged....pull...pull

[batman]

I popped out for a paddle Tuesday morning as I need to get fit and if you are going to paddle you might as well have a line out trolling, just in case something bites!!

So I headed upstream to just before the story bridge and then headed back to Balimba. I was using the opportunity to scope out a few spots for tonights YAK ATTACK, I was trolling a decent sized Jakall lure in the hope that I got on the end of something big......all of a sudden the real is going mad and my first reaction was that I was on to something..........no such luck! I a friggin snagged!!!

I had taken the opportunity to head down to Fishing Warehouse at Cooparoo to get my ugly stick rigged up with some 30lb braid and some 40lb leader so I pulled and I pulled but she wasn't coming up.....

I puulled and pulled but nothing........damn was I going to have to lose a brand new Jackall? I thought I would give it another go and pulled really hard! Something gave and I started to real the line in.......something was on the end of my line.....

The line came to the surface and on the end was a piece of someones pants....................

Now with so much crap in the Brisbane river I reckon it was nothing but is has been bugging me all day so I called the water police and mentioned it...

Rather mention it and get it off my chest and they find nothing..... or maybe they find someone...??? It is near the Sand quarey..... they are going to send down divers tomorrow...I am heading out there tonight maybe I should take my anchor with me....

Mmmm not sure what to say but I may have caught more than I planned to..!!

Batty

[Do$tylz]

Shit.... that would be a very unexpected by-catch. But I guess you never know what you can catch in the river. I've seen a few cows and horses in my day.

[benno573]

hey my mate got pissed and went for a swim last week... think you might have found him. :laugh:

[Angus]

My schools rowing shed is along that stretch.

On several occasions, being the first on the water most morning they would bump into a body. Most often someone who had jumped from the story bridge.

Second story and 100% true. Some friends of my sister were jumping off there own pontoon into the Brisbane River. As the tide went out they noticed something bobbing in the current but not moving with the tide. Upon further inspection it was a body with a large brick chained to his legs. The police were of course notified. The fingers and teeth had been removed but they actually did identify the body by various tatoos.

Freaky stuff.

Angus

[Mack_attack]

How did it get in front of their pontoon? :S

[Angus]

Mack_attack wrote:

How did it get in front of their pontoon? :S

Hahah yeah thats what I though as well.

Although not fast apparantly it has moved slightly along the river. I think (dont quote me) the presumed place on entry was the Indooroopilly Bridge.

Angus

[ellicat]

Do you think it was a cobia that bit his fingers off ?

[Rocket75]

I wonder if someone "lured" him to his death?:silly: :blush:

Here's hoping that it's just some old junk that someone threw overboard.

Let us know what you find out.

Rocket

[bootyinblue]

Mack_attack wrote:

How did it get in front of their pontoon? :S

It got there after we found it near Colleges Crossing and seeing as it was near end of shift and thinking about all the paperwork we have to do, we took a couple of bricks off so that the tide would take it downstream just below the waters surface, away and out of our division.

True story.....

[shortie]

Ive heard a similar story involvimg a body in the Murray River.

Was floating for 3 weeks becuase vic police (Wodonga side of Borber) Albury Police NSW side of border wouldnt decide whose responsibility it was.

[ellicat]

Sounds like an urban legend, or should that be rural legend:P

[EMP]

Hey Batty,

Let us know what happens next, if you could... or maybe the Courier Mail could fill us all in!?????!!!!!

EMP

[Dimo]

Well batty hope you have better luck tonight mate, Interesting to know what the divers find.

[brisbane_boy]

thats a bit freaky, i dont think ill be swimmin in the river too sooon.

[kriso]

brisbane_boy wrote:

thats a bit freaky, i dont think ill be swimmin in the river too sooon.

hahha i was put off that when i joined the site and learnt about bull shark fishing!

we came across a fresh jumper off kangaroo point doin cross country training when at school, nothin like a fresh ground pizza at 4am .:dry:

[werewolf]

nasty! but how do you know it was part of someone's pants and not just some random piece of material? That's what I would tell myself anyway!

[jeff f]

back when the gateway was first built there were 22 jumpers in the first year, a world record(no fences at that stage)people were just pulling up in thier cars and bailing over the side.the best one was an idiot who jumped too close to the bank at low tide and wound up stuck in the mud up to his neck with the tide comming in.at this stage he decided he didnt want to die anymore. the police and other rescue workers had to build a dam around him so he wouldn't drown while they dug him out the reports comming over the radio every few minutes kept me very amused for a couple of hours

[werewolf]

that's tragic jeff, but for some reason I'm laughing...

[chubbstar]

Part of my old job back in Tassie was pulling floaters out of the water, An average of 1 a week leaped off the Tasman bridge. Just before I mooved to Brisbane we had a couple hold hands and jump, 1 lived the other didn't. Friggen idoits, you never know what tomorrow can bring:dry:

Jayson

[ellicat]

chubbstar wrote:

Part of my old job back in Tassie was pulling floaters out of the water, An average of 1 a week leaped off the Tasman bridge. Just before I mooved to Brisbane we had a couple hold hands and jump, 1 lived the other didn't. Friggen idoits, you never know what tomorrow can bring:dry:

Jayson

Trouble is, sometimes you do know what tomorrow will bring.

[Shrimpo]

jeff f wrote:

back when the gateway was first built there were 22 jumpers in the first year, a world record(no fences at that stage)people were just pulling up in thier cars and bailing over the side.the best one was an idiot who jumped too close to the bank at low tide and wound up stuck in the mud up to his neck with the tide comming in.at this stage he decided he didnt want to die anymore. the police and other rescue workers had to build a dam around him so he wouldn't drown while they dug him out the reports comming over the radio every few minutes kept me very amused for a couple of hours

Can u tell me how some1 would survive from that height? Did he survive?

[Burko]

I remember that !!

He landed in the mud it was like a big pillow to soften his fall. Yes he did survive but he had a couple of broken bones if I remember.

few years ago I went fishing in the proserpine river with some rellies from up that way. we saw a motorbike helmet floating and the boys said not to touch it as their neighbour pulled a helemt out with someones head still in it. rest of his body was never found but we did catch some huge muddies!!

[pinkey]

Did you eat those huge muddies?

[Burko]

No we put all the oversized bucks back because they taste a bit tough when they get to a couple of kilo's each.

ARE YOU NUTS!!!!! OF CAUSE WE ATE THE BLOODY THINGS:silly:

you would never eat a fish or crustacean again if you knew what it fed on.

[pinkey]

so you ate human flesh

[Gazza]

shortie wrote:

Ive heard a similar story involvimg a body in the Murray River.

Was floating for 3 weeks becuase vic police (Wodonga side of Borber) Albury Police NSW side of border wouldnt decide whose responsibility it was.

Nah that cant be right Shortie their too busy booking ppl from one side of the river/lake to the other you should know that lol

Gaz

[jeff f]

Shrimpo wrote:

jeff f wrote:

back when the gateway was first built there were 22 jumpers in the first year, a world record(no fences at that stage)people were just pulling up in thier cars and bailing over the side.the best one was an idiot who jumped too close to the bank at low tide and wound up stuck in the mud up to his neck with the tide comming in.at this stage he decided he didnt want to die anymore. the police and other rescue workers had to build a dam around him so he wouldn't drown while they dug him out the reports comming over the radio every few minutes kept me very amused for a couple of hours

Can u tell me how some1 would survive from that height? Did he survive?

multiple fractures to both legs, broken pelvis and ruptured discs in his spine, but he lived

[Burko]

pinkey wrote:

so you ate human flesh

tasted like chicken, but still smelled like a crab :woohoo:

couldn't help it I had to and for the young readers don't ask!

mate crabs and prawns eat all sorts of crap if they get a bit of human then that is probably something a bit cleaner than they are used to.

[batman]

Hi guys

Well I have not heard anything as of yet but Thursday night I did troll my Jackal over the same spot just in case I had another hook up! Alas......no cigar!

The thing is that when I was sangged I was really really snagged! something was not moving in a hurry! and yes it was def a piece of pants....kinda looked like painters pants as there where spots of paint all over them.

MMMmm FREAKY!

BATTY