Lost Predator Kontiki Ohope beach area if anyone finds.
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Lost Predator Kontiki Ohope beach area if anyone finds.
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Bugger!
I've caught a few on mine, fingers crossed you get it back :)
good luck mate lost his in Gisborne -I spotted it sitting on a front lawn- spoke to house owner- ohh yeah I was going to ring - had the damn thing for weeks with my mates name on it and phone numberQuote:
Originally Posted by Yesmate
Interesting story about an unfortunate bugger who put a Seahorse on layby with a local store in Hastings in January as a Christmas present for his kids.
Picked it up just before Christmas and headed to Porangahau Beach in Central Hawkes Bay for their annual family camping trip. First time using a motorized kontiki, the kids got excited and launched it.....without attaching the backbone...
Insurance claim was made, kontiki was replaced......
Then 6 months later, a call from Seahorse in Tauranga saying that the old kontiki had been recovered......Seahorse had serviced it and removed all the barnacles and traced back the serial number.
Apparently, there is a huge swirling mass of rubbish halfway between the Chatham Islands and the mainland where various sea currents converge; supply vessels to the Chathams routinely call past this mass of sea-crap to see if there is anything interesting and the kontiki was recovered.
Insurance company was notified - but advised that as the claim had already been settled, he could keep the old one with no issues.
Got to be careful out there some of locals like to claim them from a boat as well.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Nickoli
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Plenty of sharks around.shark cut the main line, had a snapper on the first couple of hooks,was thinking we're on here,felt massive pull a few moments later and that was end of it.
They dont tell you that in the adverts....maybe hats why they do the buy one and we will give you one free........:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yesmate
......Porangahau tax.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
Bummer mate, always a bit sharky off Ohope this time of year. Plenty get lost every year.
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Found.Lifesavers saw it bobbing around and retrieved it.Legends!
Lucky man
Lucky bugga, maybe drop of a slab of cool refreshments when you collect it.
Bit of an aside , on a friends boat set the hook line last weekend returned to find both floats close together…I closed my eyes an know the shit show that was unfolding…half grown bronze wrapped in line turned a long line into hours of pain ..
Blessed be the Kontiki fisherman who throws money attached to a baited line into the sea and hopes that it will return with fish and his investment.
No slur made.. but by hell you want luck on your side.
As VC would say to me …”mate if you didn’t have bad luck , you would have no luck at all”
gave a hefty cash donation to the club.win winQuote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
yea im not gonna put it out again around here.another bloke this morning got 4 sharks on a pull.Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
My first kontiki got caught on THE REEF off Otamarakau (don't go there) and it took ages for the Navara to bust the line off. Got 3 good snapper though but no Kontiki.
I notified Seahorse then waited 3 weeks. Bugger this. I bought another.
Cheaper than owning a boat.
Nah everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nickoli
Although waiting for the perfect wind was a pita, the old sail rafts were great & cheap as.
Working on the charter boat for the last 17 years off Muriwai and Baileys Beach, we have rescued about 15 torpedo's and approx 10 Kite lines......
Found 2 torpedo's on consecutive days.....both owned by the same guy. He needed fish for his daughters 21st.....set the first one and lost it....raced back to town and bought a second one and put it out the following morning and lost that one. No ph number on the first one.....Rang the ph number on the second one and a familiar voice answered.........He was a regular on the boat..... dropped both at his place off on my way home along with 10 snapper up to 15lbs that I had caught. He reciprocated with 2 bottles of 12yr old Glenfiddich and an invitation to his daughters 21st.
Amazing the number of owners that dont put a ph number on them......normally contact the agents and give them the serial number so they can look it up on their records......
Found one that was crusted with barnacles, rang the number and the guy had lost it 9 months earlier in Hokitika.....Luckily his daughter lived in Auckland. Dropped it off to her and she took it down on her next trip home....