Gold rush.

[ands 575]

3 hours ago, jukel123 said:

Yeah, I believe they are worth more by weight than cocaine in the far east market.  Fancy going into business?

Get that barge seaworthy and off we go.

Still a few about.

 

[jukel123 9,341]

Sea-Fever

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I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer...

 

This is my funeral poem. Hopefully not for a few years yet.

[Halfhound 83]

Great stories lads. Personally I grew up right beside an estuary and at one time or another as youngsters we tried absolutely everything to get a few bob. We dug bait, raked cockles, picked winkles towed for mussells you name it. But our gold rush was gill netting bass and sea trout.. the hours we put in back then were crazy but it never seemed like work at the time we just loved being out there in the middle of the night and trying to sneak back in with our haul. We had a fair few near misses and you’ll never beat the drug of nearly being pinched. I was done twice and done 2 nights away the first time and 7 weeks for the 2nd. My father wouldn’t let me pay the fine out of pride so had to do the time. I’ve heard of lads trying to pick winkles recently and just being constantly f****d over by the processors, back then the men with the fish were king and the men who wanted to buy them had to dance to your tune. I still get out and do abit a couple of nights a year purely for a feed. 

[WILF 49,792]

Brilliant lads, great tales of better days…..

[greg64 3,038]

used to do the cockles on the Dee estuary in the early 80s  but that went the same way people's motors getting burnt out and fighting 

[Greyman 31,406]

15 hours ago, WataWalloper said:

Iv always fancied a bash at working on a boat, but iv only ever been out out, to sea three times, and all of them I was scared shitless haha summat about not being  able to see land is proper frightening to a city boy like me haha 

I ain’t no different and I live on a boat I’d happily do the coast line around the uk or a channel hop into the European canals but out of site of land and the arse gets a bit twitchy lol

[byron 1,265]

15 hours ago, jukel123 said:

They could be contaminated because eejuts would lose a land rover in quicksand and abandon it. There were half a dozen vehicles abandoned one night. Each of them oozing diesel for years to come.

There's a suburu out there mate.still is..why any fool would even think to take a vehicle out there ..dunno

[byron 1,265]

16 hours ago, jukel123 said:

They could be contaminated because eejuts would lose a land rover in quicksand and abandon it. There were half a dozen vehicles abandoned one night. Each of them oozing diesel for years to come.

There's a suburu out there mate.still is..why any fool would even think to take a vehicle out there ..dunno

[byron 1,265]

Grimsby fisherman Alwyn Call was jailed for piracy.

Google this old boy.now passed.  what a character .some of the stories he told me were blinders.brilliant artist aswell.the only grimsby skipper to go to public school.

[TOMO 28,535]

As wilf says great story's...I've picked cockles as a kid as bait fir sea fishing....a chap showed us how whilst me and my dad were fumbling about in an on sandy beach up Scotland...he used a rake...very easy so of to the local hardware shop....he also showed us how to open them just put two cockles together at the knuckle bit and twist...one will open....

Great thread lads keep adding to it

[gnipper 6,766]

Growing up i was always warned away from mucking about out there on the marsh or coast by my Dad who had known of plenty that died out there so I've always been wary.  My family would have all been shrimpers and fishermen at one time also fowling on the marsh, it wasn't that long ago either. 

[Halfhound 83]

They were great times and I can honestly say as much money as there was in it for the years it went on when someone got a haul everyone on the street was fed especially the older guys who couldn’t get out anymore themselves. You here alot from the left wing lot that people are harking back with rose tinted glasses to a time that didn’t exist but I can say hand on heart that as much competition as there was and while plenty of fighting and burning of boats and things did happen there was a community spirit between people that is all but gone. You look up and down the country fishing villages and communities and now being resold under the banner of coastal communities, make it impossible for locals to ever live there shift out the small fishing boat fleet and let the weekend warriors moor their yachts and take over it’s absolutely sickening. Like with the miners, the fishermen, the farmers and everyone else they just broke down the communities sold them off to the highest bidder and what are left with communities of strangers who don’t give a bollox about anyone. If a group of people seem too close and care too much about one another they seem to get gutted just incase they may stand up to this shambles we see before us. I’m depressed now lol

[Leo Sayer 3,635]

Never lived near the coast , great little read this is chaps 

[Seagull 515]

16 hours ago, Halfhound said:

I still get out and do abit a couple of nights a year

The joys of male prostitution.

[TRUEBRIT66 2,084]

Was down in Looe a few weeks back took a fishing trip for a few hours and starting chatting to the captain he said the boats are earning a years wages a week at the moment on the squid.