Was out for a foil today at Attadale, not great conditions but worth the effort. After 45mins tacking across the river I passed 50mtrs behind a small boat not realising they were trawling. They must have had a lot of line out because I looked down and saw their line at my thigh height.
I only had time to go oh ****e then I had a 40g halco twisty in the back of my thigh. Lucky I had my old steamer on because I think that stopped some of the damage from the hooks pulling. Also lucky I broke their line quickly, 75kgs not putting up much of a fight. The boat did stop, probably wondering what had happened, but they didn't come over to see how I was.
Kited back to the beach, had to cut my wetsuit around the lure to get it off, then off to the hospital. Took 2 doctors together to get the 2 barbs out after a few cuts and numbing jabs.
Pass a lot of boats in the river but this was a first.
Ouch
had a similar situation few months back but luckily seen the line in time and jumped it (didn't land the jump ??) since them I always avoid boats or try stay up wind of them if possible
This one was obviously all on you, but the inability of some fishermen to read the room is astounding. The spot in my profile pic is a 100m stretch of beach out of several kilometres, the only deep water where foils work off the beach so all the foilers gather there. On a given weekend day there's a whole pack of dingers and a few kite foilers ... plus a few family groups with little kids paddling in amongst it. All on a very skinny beach. Then some dork will wander up and start flinging lead and a hook around in the middle of it all when they could walk 100m either direction and have all the space in the world. It just makes you wonder what level some people operate on.
