Love hearing this old school stuff. 👍

Just came across your page and it’s amazing! Thank you for sharing this

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.

Thank you so much for these videos garry. I live on the SOuth Coast and it is great to hear all the familiar family names. I look forward to being a subscriber and hopefully a video on the Northern Prawn Fishing Industry.

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.

WHAT a GREAT DOCO on these People of Substance.

thanks garry excellent mate

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.

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.

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.

You guys were/are AMAZING.... I would have loved to be on one of these boats yarding the pigs over the gunnels...wow

A fantastic documentary with input from the people who were there. Massive thanks for sharing !

My first skipper was Ken Tidswell.

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.

Thanks for these videos. 👍

Subscribed. Keep all of it coming

Les Warren ... legend .

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.

My photos of the Aislinn at St. Francis Island and the Super Dog on the shelf.

How they pull up a beast with ease

Did 'The Shiralee' fish for tuna?

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.

You should look into Patrick Warren Im quiet certain he had a lot to do with the Tuna industry here in Australia

Those were the days when aussies were dinkum hard workers with wooden boats

Wow

And we wonder why there's so few left

A little appalled at the lack of understanding, feeling sad

Liked it! In mediterranean tuna was caught since centuries before, but nice to learn how it worked in other areas

Lmao imagine being so greedy you nearly sink your boat.

Hence why we have no fish

raping the oceans ,

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?

So disgusting this greed.

Human beasts slaughtering fish, how wonderful