Just a quick fish thread post to prove my masculinity and total lack of gayness.
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Just a quick fish thread post to prove my masculinity and total lack of gayness.
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Anyone wondering what this is about needs to check out Koojo's "Man Test" thread where it has been established that real men like fish. :)
In all honesty, girl fish is a better search:
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or fish girl better yet:
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Nothing gay about fishnets either
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Fishnet revival!!!!!!
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and this is nice, but probably not suitable for the open board:
Stockings Pic of the Day - Garter & Nylons Thigh-Highs Jan 08 2009 POTD
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Fascinating. Perhaps fish are learning how to survive deeper in order to avoid us.
BTW have you noticed Butterfly, Socal, Blue and DD don't post on this thread?
...now about that theory of mine......:)
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Nor somtamslap. :mid:
The theory could well be correct.
OK one for Butterfly and Co.
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^ I'll save a red for you, just on principle.
To wipe that image out:
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This story courtesy of a thread started by Jizzybloke...
Tourist complains about fish in harbour
By Victoria Ward
Most holiday makers taking a stroll around a working harbour might expect to see the odd fish.
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But when David Copp came across a fishing trawler moored in Ilfracombe Harbour he took great offence and complained about the “disgusting” smell.
The 46-year-old was outraged that his children, aged seven and nine, had been forced to endure the sight of 12 crates of dead fish and crabs, piled up on the quayside.
He said the ordeal had left them “quite distressed” and demanded to know why the harbourmaster was not more considerate to tourists.
“There were flies flying around and the smell was awful,” he said. “The ship was just sat there not doing anything, and there were 12 crates of dead crabs and fish just lying there covered in flies.
“It’s not the sort of thing you want to see on holiday, there was a real stench.
“My children were quite distressed by it. These people should be a bit more considerate to the holidaymakers."
Mr Copp called Ilfracombe harbourmaster Rob Lawson to complain about the smell that had emanated from The Lady of Lundy trawler before calling the North Devon Journal to air his woes.
Mr Lawson tried to explain that fishermen depended on the daily catch for their livelihoods and that it was a common site on a working quayside.
“He was very upset that he had come across the boxes of fish and thought it was entirely inappropriate and not a good sight or smell,” he said.
“I explained the workings of the harbour and that it was a working quay and that while it was not ideal, sometimes this happened.
“But he didn’t calm down, he went to the local newspaper and then when they printed his complaints, he came back to me to see what I had to say.”
Mr Lawson admitted that it was quite unusual to have a working harbour with public access.
But he added: “This is generally considered an asset because visitors can get a really good feel for how the industry works, they can enjoy the whole experience.
"I told this chap that you shouldn't take your children to a harbour if that is how they react to dead fish."
Mr Copp is understood to have been on a two-week family holiday in the popular north Devon tourist resort when he lodged his complaint, which attracted disbelief from locals. One said: “Ridiculous. Does he think all his food comes in packets? What did he expect to see at a working harbour?” Tony Rutherford, the managing director of Bideford Fisheries said "Seeing us in action is often considered a tourist attraction in these parts."
A fish's home is his castle
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Oh no, not Ilfracombe again...?
^Haha, was just about to post it in that thread!
Fisherman lands 305kg tun
A monster bluefin tuna worth up to $US80,000 (close to NZ$100,000) in Tokyo was brought ashore at Port Taranaki yesterday.
Caught a monster fish? Email us at newstips[at]stuff.co.nz
But this tuna will not be gracing the plates of Japan's top restaurants – it is destined for barbecue hot plates this summer.
The tuna, weighing in at 305.8 kilograms, was the first catch of its kind for Te Awamutu's Jeremy Walker, who hooked the giant on a game fishing trip off Westport in the South Island.
"I've never caught one before. It's a once-in-a-lifetime fish, I think," he said.
Fishing boat skipper David Donald, from Marokopa, said he had seen tuna that size go for as much as US$80,000 at the Tokyo fish markets.
"They slice it up real thin and have it as sashimi.
"And the Japanese fishermen, they take everything off the fish. Even the eyeballs. I've seen them scrape down the bones with a teaspoon and then ask if they could finish ours off."
Earlier this year, a 342kg bluefin tuna sold for a record US$396,000 on the Japanese market.
Yesterday, on the back of a Rutherford's Meat Processing truck, Mr Walker's catch was chopped up into large triangular chunks so all five people on the trip could take some home.
"We usually only take one of the ones we catch and tag the others and let them go.
"There's plenty of meat on one to slab up into steaks to put on the barbecue," Mr Donald said.
Stocks of the fish have declined in recent years, with the species considered endangered by a host of environmental groups, but Mr Donald said fishing of bluefin tuna is "pretty well controlled in New Zealand".
"It's the overseas trawlers out with longlines and 20,000 hooks, just out of our waters that are doing the damage," he said.
The Pacific bluefin tuna is known to head to waters off the West Coast of the South Island to feed on hoki being caught by commercial fishermen.
Mr Donald often takes his mates out fishing on his 12-metre boat the Crazy Horse when he's not running charters out of Kawhia.
He said it took Mr Walker only one hour and 50 minutes to reel the fish in on his Okuma Makaira composite rod with 60kg line and circle hooks.
All the men aboard were needed to help hoist the tuna onto the deck at 2am on Sunday.
Mr Donald also said the fish probably shed a few kilos on the way up to Taranaki.
"It probably would've been heavier if we'd taken it straight in at Westport – it's lost a lot of blood," he said.
However, he wanted to stop and see his old fishing friend Wayne Fairhurst, who owns Hunting and Fishing in New Plymouth.
"Write down that he 'used to' catch more marlin than me, that'll get a good reaction," Mr Donald said.
Bluefin Tuna Caught In Taranaki - national | Stuff.co.nz
Ever wondered what fish do for entertainment?
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