I've fished way offshore from rotto (200-400m depth) and always encounter heaps of rubbish (just usual stuff like cray floats and general rubbish). Its good news if its all together as the mahi's arent too far away :)

2 summers ago i was off two rocks and almost out of sight of land and saw this blob floating. Motored on over and it's a bloke chasing big sambos on his yak.. made sure he was all good and offered to take him in but he was happy enough. Crazy!

Some clown in an impact vest on a red and white Griffin

MDSXR6T said...
I've fished way offshore from rotto (200-400m depth) and always encounter heaps of rubbish (just usual stuff like cray floats and general rubbish). Its good news if its all together as the mahi's arent too far away :)

2 summers ago i was off two rocks and almost out of sight of land and saw this blob floating. Motored on over and it's a bloke chasing big sambos on his yak.. made sure he was all good and offered to take him in but he was happy enough. Crazy!

whilst sat at the restaurant in coral bay a few years back i read a notice offering $ 1000 reward for hobie kayak, next day went chasing some tuna, caught a glimpse of something in the distance, as i got closer the colour described matched, bingo hobie kayak circled it for 2 mins , as i was about to grab it up popped a spearo , **** my pants, he was 3 miles out, i had nightmares for ages thinking of what may of happened to this bloke if id took his kayak, id lost heaps of ripper tuna to sharks that morning and he was swimming around with them

I never see any rubbish out off Perth, only flying fish which tend to scare the crap out of me because i'm not really concentrating and they come out of nowhere. The further out you go the more of them you see!

cauncy said...

MDSXR6T said...
I've fished way offshore from rotto (200-400m depth) and always encounter heaps of rubbish (just usual stuff like cray floats and general rubbish). Its good news if its all together as the mahi's arent too far away :)

2 summers ago i was off two rocks and almost out of sight of land and saw this blob floating. Motored on over and it's a bloke chasing big sambos on his yak.. made sure he was all good and offered to take him in but he was happy enough. Crazy!

whilst sat at the restaurant in coral bay a few years back i read a notice offering $ 1000 reward for hobie kayak, next day went chasing some tuna, caught a glimpse of something in the distance, as i got closer the colour described matched, bingo hobie kayak circled it for 2 mins , as i was about to grab it up popped a spearo , **** my pants, he was 3 miles out, i had nightmares for ages thinking of what may of happened to this bloke if id took his kayak, id lost heaps of ripper tuna to sharks that morning and he was swimming around with them

So you found the kayak and you found the theif, good job.

wishy said...
I never see any rubbish out off Perth, only flying fish which tend to scare the crap out of me because i'm not really concentrating and they come out of nowhere. The further out you go the more of them you see!

Yeah, those Best riders will get you every time...

Mikedobee said...

Ok, after getting confident enough and finding the right life/impact vest, I decided to push the limits and go for 1 maybe 1.5 km off shore.

The amount of rubbish I saw in the water, blew my mind.

In a couple of days of kiting, I found the following:
-a toy truck made of plastic (whatever was left of it)
-a couple of plastic containers
-plastic bags
-a hat

Is this normal? What else did you see/find? Do you normally pick them up and toss them in the bin?

Well that would be NSW for you crowded and filthy,lot of people sucken on chubba chubbs

Last windsurf session i had, i came in with a KITE BOARD and no one was trawling for it OR interested in keeping the seen clean .

Funny enough There would have been 20 fag bags out at Point Moore

I tryed telling a few of them on the water it was just up wind, but kiters have a very poor understanding of the AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE especially when it comes from some one on a windsurfer , so i plodded around collected the rubbish from the ocean and took it in.

I was going to bin it,but thought SOMEONES TRASH IS SOME ONES TREASURE

It was a twin tip and has ROXY stuff on it.

My car was on the beach and it was windy ,i did not want rubbish flying down the beach so i bent back my number plate stabbed and wedged it ,so the offending litterer could see it and claim it.

I went back sailing at the Gates and returned an hour later,

I looked for
a note
a beer ,
a smoke
a thankyou ,
a name a phone number
a reward

NOTHING but at least the rubbish was removed from the beach.




West coast there is a lot of fisherman / floats and ropes on the beaches my way Generally its ...... the oceans pritty clean

puppetonastring said...
Read somewhere there are an estimated 3000 shipping containers floating around out there.
You would have to hope they sink eventually.

They have a devise on the side which after a certain amount of time pops and they sink.
As far i understand

Found a Ute Tub liner once, scared the **** out of me. I thought it was a shark.

Was going to try and use it as a slider but it got into the surf and flipped over :(

This topic seems to resurface every year..

A couple of years back I came across what I thought was a child's dead body floating face down. The wind was light so it was quite difficult to get back upwind to where I first sighted it just catching glimpses every now and then. My heat was in my mouth as I contemplated how I was going to get a body of a child back to shore.

Eventually After about 20 minutes I managed to get close enough to establish it was not human but appeared to be a lump of closed cell foam similar to that found in couches etc. the color looked identical to what flesh looks like that has been in liquid for some time. I can still remember the relief I felt.

Observations of WA; beaches are litter strewn, sand dunes are littered with beer bottles and remnants of BBQ's, many roads verges contain rubbish. So I am not surprised the sea is also full of crap. Its not endemic to Australia i see this everywhere. Sadly a few bottom feeding scum think its ok to pollute their own country.

Kiting at Stokko you may as well be kiting the mounds of rubbish at the tip.... But luckily sharks eat everything...those little(big) buggers are like the garbage collectors of the sea.