Fish commercially all my life in Alaska, I was seriously jealous watching these guys lift pole, when the guy jumped to help the auto puller I cheered. What a perfect save.
Love poling , had a break for a few years ,be back for albies and fin soon, top work boys, you knockers ,this was 31 years ago , east coast OZ a lot of these were canned ,plenty of fish ,strict quotas these days and value adding top dollar,
That was bloody awesome to watch guys. You'd be fit doing that day in and day out. Hell you'd enjoy your meals and sleep well too. I was absolutely spell bound watching you guys hook those tuna on to the boat. Big wraps to the guy who jumped on that automatic rod to pull that big one on to the boat that nearly fell right on him. Cheers from a Kiwi down under.
Awesome video, my father in law, Aldo Kolega (The Skipper) was so excited to see it. I have downloaded it for him and he said the fish were big and he was skinny!! Thanks
Thanks Brad I havn't seen Aldo for years I was on the Fina-K for 4 years and loved it .I have a better copy of this footage cut to better music if Aldo wants a copy give me a call
Thanks for the reply Glen. I didn't know this was 30 years ago. Unfortunately some commercial fishermen treat these beautiful fish like concrete bricks. When I catch them I treat them like peaches.
they do now but these fish were destined for the cannery and a trial shipment went to japan for sashimi hence the ice we carried on this trip. we got 10 times more than the cannery so fishing practises changed and poling died out....
I agree they were great times and there was not very much footage taken of those time so I am glad this vision can give people a glimpse into the way it was enjoy and pass the link on .......
I once thought that this is what I wanted to do, even walked the commercial fishing docks in San Diego, looking for work. Thankfully, I ended up working on a sportsfishing boat instead for a couple of years and headed my Dad's advice to get a degree...in marine biology. Not a healthy lifestyle working on either of those kind of boats.
Well I'm glad you feel you made the right choice for you. It's still up to the individual what lifestyle one they live. I've done both sport and mostly commercial never ate better and stayed lean and fit. Results are that I'm never gonna ingest Tilapia,or any other so called planet saver, love your fisherman community
Im really glad to have watched this. Yeah, the guy in the red hat is a Aussie fishing machine. I guessed Aussie by the saxa salt and early eighties by the Quality of film and the clothes worn. Unbelievable footage. Which crazy fishermans you? @Glen Siviour
When I was a kid we had a 16mm B&W movie of men catching tuna this way, only there were 3 men with rods connected to 1 hook and man the size of the tuna they were hauling on board made these look like bait.
saludos buen video soy muy aficionado a la pesca para los ke no conocen estos ganchos o anzuelos no tienen lengueta tienen como especie de pluma o mota donde el pez lo confunde con carnada y es q pica pero hay un sevidor de cebo vivo q tiene q estar constantemente tirando carnada al agua para mantener el cardumen cerca del barco esta pesca se practica en muchos lugares del mundo pero la verdad me kede impresionado con las varas mecanicas o electricas q hacen el trabajo solas
I like this way of fishing, at least no other fish wasted like what it does on long net fishing, right here only you ought to do is your muscles must be in full strength each time you hooked tuna.
+Anchovy Rancher What do you use for bait? Are there any hook at the end of the line? It appears Tuna are NOT HOOKED to the line when they got out of the water.
Village Fish Hunting was a great era of fishing to be a part of. Great comradeship onboard with the adrenaline rush of steaming into a patch of fish guided by spotter planes flying overheard locating the schools from the air. Those were the days . Sadly like all things it evolved in another direction and method . I was 16 when I was poling back then . Memories
They no longer use auto poles but they worked on hydraulics the fish pulled on the hook the rope running up the pole pushed a button and the fish was hauled in. must be hundreds of old auto poles in port Lincoln and albacore loved them for some reason caught 30 tons of them one day
Gideon Terblanche they haven’t been used for near on 30 plus years in the Industry but I’d be thinking somewhere in Port Lincoln , South Australia in an old fisherman’s shed up the back under a heap of unused equipment would be an Autopole unit .
Awesome video! I did a fair bit of commercial tuna fishing including bait boats like shown here. That crew who leapt to the rail to help the auto line is a fishing machine. I watched expecting to see the fish snap his leg or something. (More than once I'd seen a tuna snap a bin board, a man's leg would be nothing in comparison.) Oh, my aching back but great memories. Great video!
Meu Deus!!!!Meu Deus...que pescada incrível...(Se pensar -mos como se pescava no tempo de Cristo???daria -mos mais valor no criador de todas as coisas...)(Más seja louvado sempre ô nome DEUS...)
