Yobskins at 18.....

[yobskin]

I rode and killed 1000s of these Makos while longlinning for tuna and swordfish...

This 500kg bugger getting dressed for ice...

I didnt have time to cut all the jaws out....but this one could slide straight over me...

My workers cleaning fish before i cut it .....
I dont Bull shite about my life....i live it

 

[Havinago]

You can have that mate even the little 4 footers are strong and have sharp teeth

 

[yobskin]

I always felt safer going for a lid after going fishing....

 

[Cheese]

I worked in the tuna industry years ago diving and tuna poling,
1980s, 1990s, and salmon netting, Best catch was 180 tone of 16kg
tuna, we had netted 100 tone but stuffed another 80 ton in to the 40mtr ring.
But the poling days of the early 1980s were the best times.

 

[bushpig]

Where was that taken Yobskin?

 

[cecc]

Good photo's Yobs. Thanks for sharing.

 

[yobskin]

Where was that taken Yobskin?

Maloolaba spit back in the 90s...

 

[yobskin]

I worked in the tuna industry years ago diving and tuna poling,
1980s, 1990s, and salmon netting, Best catch was 180 tone of 16kg
tuna, we had netted 100 tone but stuffed another 80 ton in to the 40mtr ring.
But the poling days of the early 1980s were the best times.

Average tuna for us was 60-120kgs....sword fish nothin much under 100kg....i was grading tuna for japan for 20years...we would catch 38tonne in 2weeks....i would process 120 vessels worth of fish in 2weeks...lifting/packing 80tonne a day...

 

[Cheese]

This is me after a tuna harvest,
we would catch 300 to 400 a day for the japs freezer boat,
with only snorkel and fins, ie net em up inside the 40 mtr ring
then go get em, the fish would be 40kg, fattened by little sausage pellets.
The pic is of me after a harvest.

 

[KEZZ]

hey yobskin i probally no you. Mooloolaba was my stomping ground to from the 80's to yr 2000. Tuna and swords bring back memories. To many boats in the end killed it plus the aussie dollar going up

 

[silver]

Yeeeehah Yobs,..ride em wild mate(like the snapping dogs of the deep).
I can't half imagine the dreams that must go in your mind while your sleeping, after seeing that photo.

 

[yobskin]

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...09/1450841798_the_author_after_tuna_catch.jpg

This is me after a tuna harvest,
we would catch 300 to 400 a day for the japs freezer boat,
with only snorkel and fins, ie net em up inside the 40 mtr ring
then go get em, the fish would be 40kg, fattened by little sausage pellets.
The pic is of me after a harvest.

Nice one cheese....i went to mexico in 2005 to finalise a 16million $ deal for a baja bluefin farm all cage fish at Ensenada... my job was to over see the merg and to inspect any future investments into Todos Santos island where they were breeding strip bass and kingfish....
I went on plenty of harvests as a spectator too many seals for my liking....was great to see but...use the fish to swim to the pickup point...my brain is happy i retired.

 

[cecc]

Gee Yobs, you were involved in some high end deals there mate. These Tuna are big money aye?

 

[yobskin]

Sure are mate....i remember a bigeye tuna going for $180,000 it was beaming with fat content very healthy looking and it only weighed 120kg...