fishing rod dragged in by jet skiers

[harry barker]

i fished the groyne last sunday aswell and nearly lost my rod to the sailing boats i seen them all coming in and they all missed my line then there were 2 more a cany way out so i started messing about in my box then turned round there was a catermarang coming in about 15-20 yard off the groyne luckyily i seen it my line got stuck in the middle of the 2 parts of it, had a good battle trying to reel him in but it just slowed him down lol he tryed getting the line out by reversing but i was stuck on something on his boat, dont no why he couldnt just go another 20 yards out i had bright yellow line he must of seen it. when i go practice casting on the beach i always watch out for them but it doesnt seem like they care about us or our fishing gear, worst thing was i just filled my reel up before i went with new line only had 2 chucks got a half kilo spool of ultima distance here and its only give me bad luck lol

I know what you mean mate,I'm a shore angler and I do a lot of sailing as well.
Some times it looks like the sailing boat is deliberate trying to run your line
down but nine times out of ten he's not.
With a sailing boat he can only sail something like 40 degrees into the wind
to make forward progress it may look like he's heading towards your end gear
but the wind direction determines his movements over the water.

I can honestly say I would try to avoid anglers lines as this is a danger to
the sailors and his boat to have endgear leads and hooks flying over his
decks.
A good example of a problem area is Sunderland north pier and more so the old north pier(rathouse area along that length of pier).Not very wide.

All shipping and sailing boats when approaching the pier must keep over to port side that's on entering the river,so that means going very close to the pier right hand side,because all vessels passing must past port to port,if I'm
sailing in and there's no traffic I will try and give the pier a wide berth but it's not always possible if there's other boats coming out to sea.
Also I have at times been instructed by the harbour master via vhf radio to move over to the right hand side of the river because of a large ship starting to make way but it looks like there's nothing there and would seem to the anglers on the pier this move is deliberate to catch the anglers lines....it's not.

Long winded I know but hope it helps with anglers and boats in confined harbours and entrances.
Cheers H

 

[harry barker]

?????????two of the same posts,don't know what happened there ......sorry

 

[pottsy]

?????????two of the same posts,don't know what happened there ......sorry

Sorted

Ali

 

[harry barker]

Sorted

Ali

Thanks Ali,
H

 

[gary2010]

as soon as he got my line i started puling up on my rod which slowed him down and he new he had my line so he tryed going backwards, and i walked alot the groyne to get the line out the middle of his boat then pointed in the water to go underneath and got caught on something under the boat, then the guy tried to free it again but would come free so he just went full speed a head and snaped my line after a while, there was about 20 other sailing boats came in he was the second last to come in and the only 1 to get close to my line, think he just had no care for anything else except gettin round the groyne, there were 2 jetskis being more careful than him.

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

I know what you mean mate,I'm a shore angler and I do a lot of sailing as well.
Some times it looks like the sailing boat is deliberate trying to run your line
down but nine times out of ten he's not.
With a sailing boat he can only sail something like 40 degrees into the wind
to make forward progress it may look like he's heading towards your end gear
but the wind direction determines his movements over the water.

I can honestly say I would try to avoid anglers lines as this is a danger to
the sailors and his boat to have endgear leads and hooks flying over his
decks.
A good example of a problem area is Sunderland north pier and more so the old north pier(rathouse area along that length of pier).Not very wide.

All shipping and sailing boats when approaching the pier must keep over to port side that's on entering the river,so that means going very close to the pier right hand side,because all vessels passing must past port to port,if I'm
sailing in and there's no traffic I will try and give the pier a wide berth but it's not always possible if there's other boats coming out to sea.
Also I have at times been instructed by the harbour master via vhf radio to move over to the right hand side of the river because of a large ship starting to make way but it looks like there's nothing there and would seem to the anglers on the pier this move is deliberate to catch the anglers lines....it's not.

Long winded I know but hope it helps with anglers and boats in confined harbours and entrances.
Cheers H

Very informative post Harry hope this helps to allay some of the bad feeling between anglers and boatys. We've had a few issues due to steering with our teeth and getting a bit close to allsorts We've always got on deck and tried the wavy wavy bit and miming reeling in motions which have always been met with nods of understanding - and frantic reeling reeling in! Not so much a problem these days unless you're spinning for driftwood in St. Pete's marina :red:

 

[harry barker]

Very informative post Harry hope this helps to allay some of the bad feeling between anglers and boatys. We've had a few issues due to steering with our teeth and getting a bit close to allsorts We've always got on deck and tried the wavy wavy bit and miming reeling in motions which have always been met with nods of understanding - and frantic reeling reeling in! Not so much a problem these days unless you're spinning for driftwood in St. Pete's marina :red:

Hahahaha.....nice one Charlie,was only trying to give answers to both sides of the argument.

You not doing much lately then,been told it's bad navigation in and out of St.Peters basin.
Best of luck with your project and hope you get back on the water soon.
Cheers H