Deadliest catch

[happy daze john in oz]

I found catching Crabs quite easy.
Cheers
Brian.[/QUOTE]

You obviouisly went to the wrong places Brian.

[john sutton]

I would think that the divers on the australian tuna fishing boats that have to go into the sea and throw the sharks out to stop them eating the captured tuna.
It must be like going into a liverpool dockside bar in the 50,s and producing a white fiver
john sutton

[Neville Roberts]

Caught a dose in Barcelona ,and crabs in curacao but wasn,t to bad after a visit to Dr Ross

[Keith Tindell]

Hi Neville, As i have posted before, MN cure, a glass of whisky poured in the correct region, plus a handfull of sand, they get pi**ED up and stone each other to death, KT

[John Arton]

Sailed with a Norwegian skipper who had actually sailed on the ceab and tuna boats out of Anchorage and Seattle and boy was he mad. Carried a gun all the time and was always telling us that we should carry guns as the Filippino crew were going to rise up and murder us all in our bunks. He was actually a scholl friend of the companies owner and if he got peed off with anyone in the office would phone his Norwegian owner mate and get them sacked.
Disappeared with the ships money in Rotterdam and was found days later holed up in the Scandia hotel with two prostitutes and a case of scotch. Never had to pay anything back and management were told from on high that they should still employ him but he disappeared back to Norway and his two wifes, reindeer farm and yacht.
He reckoned he had made a fortune from crabbing and his brother (who had also been a crabber) had emigrated to the U.S.A. and apparentley ran the west coast dealerships for Mercedes Benz...but then again this captain as said was mad so how true was his claim that brother was a millionaire on the west coast I could not say.
rgds
JA

[Tony Wilding]

with regard to the TV Program, it amazes me the conditions they work under, in all weathers, rarely calm seas, also the numbers of Crabs that are caught its a wonder any are left.

[John Pruden]

tony if you wanted crabs the jap coast in the 60s was a deadliest catchjp

[Keith at Tregenna]

As kids set off to fish for the first and last time, in contingency bought some locally lest we failed, we did , fail that is, caught zilch and waisted much time. Trouble was we could not even pretend / lie as the stuff in our kit on returning home was still close to frozen: Thank the lord at least it was not in a tin !

K.

[stewart morrison]

kapitan kong, were you referring to mechanical dandruff being easy to catch, knew lots of guys who were good at it especially round the Kiwi coast .in the sixties

[Peter Trodden]

with regard to the TV Program, it amazes me the conditions they work under, in all weathers, rarely calm seas, also the numbers of Crabs that are caught its a wonder any are left.

Tony,
the weather conditions and the work frenzy plus plenty of crabs for about 10 boats working that area,all ties in to the yearly migration of the crab.
The catch season is only a matter of weeks so its All Hands on Deck, like most Fishermen their earnings depend on the size of the catch and a good Boat with a good Skipper(Lucky) can make megga Bucks. I have watched this program and there is easier ways to make a Buck.
ttfn. Peter T.